The aim of this paper is to review the literature on human thermal comfort in the built
environment. First an overview about the subject area is presented. This is followed by a …

During cooking fume particulate and high temperature are unavoidable in indoor
environment and could pose serious threat to human health. This paper presents the …

This work presents an in-depth systematic literature review of the strategies used to
characterise and quantify thermal comfort conditioned by mechanical HVAC systems. The …

The importance of human thermal comfort evaluation lies of the development of healthy
buildings as well as low-carbon buildings. In recent years, the applications of the second law …

Design approaches towards energy efficient hospitals often result in a deteriorated indoor
environmental quality, adverse health and comfort outcomes, and is a public health concern …

The majority of studies dealing with the correlation between human body exergy
consumption and thermal comfort use adopted, constant values of metabolic rate for …

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the efficiency of building interventions both from
building and user point of view. With exergy analysis based on the connective thinking …

Numerous metrics and indices have been proposed for the assessment of thermal
perception and comfort. Commonly used indices based on the estimate of the heat flow …

The application of the exergy approach to thermal comfort models is a modern tool for
providing and evaluating the level of thermal comfort. The purpose of the paper is to apply …

Organisms uptake energy from their diet and maintain a highly organized structure by
importing energy and exporting entropy. A fraction of the generated entropy is accumulated …