Age differences in thermal comfort and physiological responses in thermal environments with temperature ramp

Y Wu, Z Zhang, H Liu, B Li, B Chen, R Kosonen… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The well-being of the elderly is critical in today's aging society. However, the age difference
in thermal comfort in buildings with unstable thermal environments is poorly understood. In …

Emission reduction mode of China's provincial transportation sector: based on “Energy+” carbon efficiency evaluation

Q Zhang, B Gu, H Zhang, Q Ji - Energy Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Because the transportation sector relies heavily on fossil energy, especially petroleum, this
sector has become one of the most challenging regarding a reduction of carbon emissions …

Physiological equivalent temperature-based and universal thermal climate index-based adaptive-rational outdoor thermal comfort models

S Zhang, X Zhang, D Niu, Z Fang, H Chang… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Outdoor thermal comfort models are predominant in guiding urban design and outdoor
space usage. Both the heat balance of the human body and thermal adaptations …

Occupancy-aided ventilation for airborne infection risk control: Continuously or intermittently reduced occupancies?

S Zhang, D Niu, Z Lin - Building Simulation, 2023 - Springer
Ventilation is an important engineering measure to control the airborne infection risk of acute
respiratory diseases, eg, Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Occupancy-aided …

Ventilation indices for evaluation of airborne infection risk control performance of air distribution

Y Lu, D Niu, S Zhang, H Chang, Z Lin - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Air distribution is an effective engineering measure to fight against respiratory infectious
diseases like COVID-19. Ventilation indices are widely used to indicate the airborne …

Contaminant removal and contaminant dispersion of air distribution for overall and local airborne infection risk controls

S Zhang, D Niu, Y Lu, Z Lin - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Proper air distribution is crucial for airborne infection risk control of infectious respiratory
diseases like COVID-19. Existing studies evaluate and compare the performances of …

Numerical comparison of exhaled particle dispersion under different air distributions for winter heating

T Li, EA Essah, Y Wu, Y Cheng, C Liao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
People pay close attention to prevent and control the airborne transmission of respiratory
diseases, and effective ventilation can reduce the cross-infection risk. Nevertheless, in …

Experimental study of draft-related local discomfort in a room with stratum ventilation

F Cheng, Y Cheng, Z Lin - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Given increased air movement in rooms with stratum ventilation, draft may be a major cause
of local thermal discomfort. However, there was a lack of comprehensive study on the draft …

Effective moisture temperature: Ventilation performance index accounting for effects of air temperature and relative humidity on thermal comfort

S Zhang, Z Lin - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Relative humidity could be a predominant parameter for thermal comfort. The existing
ventilation performance index regarding thermal comfort, ie, the Effective Draft Temperature …

Experimental research on the cross-infection control performance of different ventilation strategies

H Li, Y Lan, M Liu, X Kong, M Fan - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustained pandemics have awakened the growing need to select appropriate indoor
ventilation strategies to create a healthy environment. Hence, this study experimentally …