Identifying the adaptive opportunities in factory environmnets for a better thermal comfort - preliminary studies

Abstract

Achieving thermal comfort by active means has become one of the largest energy intensive activities in factory environments, which directly influence the manufacturing cost. As a result searching for new methodologies that could improve the thermal comfort with minimum usage of energy has become vital. In the scope of adaptive thermal comfort model, improving the adaptive opportunities is a potential passive technique that can be used to minimize the energy requirement. However not many researches were conducted especially in tropical climates to investigate the ways of expanding adaptive opportunities. The research presented was conducted to understand the existing adaptive opportunities and to explore and identify new methods that could improve thermal comfort in factory environments.