Mean radiant temperature is central to our understanding of the radiant heat exchange
between the human body and surrounding environment. This paper will present a review of …

Assessment of sustainability will become more relevant for the food industry in the years to
come. Analysis based on exergy, including the use of exergetic indicators and Grassmann …

Bridging the gap between concepts derived from Second Law of Thermodynamics and their
application to Engineering practice, the property exergy and the exergy balance can be a …

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 …

Over the past several decades there has been increasing research interest in
thermodynamics as applied to biological systems. This concerns topics such as muscle work …

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 exergy analysis of the human body is a tool that can provide indicators of health and life
quality. To perform the exergy balance it is necessary to calculate the metabolism on an …

Exergy analysis is applied to assess the quality of the energy conversion processes that take
place in the human body, aiming at developing indicators of thermal comfort based on the …

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 …