situação de conforto

English translation: contributing to a comfortable ambience

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Portuguese term or phrase:situação de conforto
English translation:contributing to a comfortable ambience
Entered by: Nick Taylor

19:36 Jun 17, 2016
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Portuguese term or phrase: situação de conforto
Materiais de baixa difusividade retardam a transferência de variações externas de temperatura para o interior das construções, contribuindo para uma possível situação de conforto.
Andre Damasceno
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contributing to a comfortable ambience
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contributing to a comfortable ambience/creating a comfortable enviromnment
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5contributing to a comfortable ambience
Nick Taylor
4and increase the thermal comfort / , contributing to the thermal comfort
Erzsébet Czopyk


  

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and increase the thermal comfort / , contributing to the thermal comfort


Explanation:
http://buildingscience.com/documents/digests/bsd-011-thermal...

The role of thermal mass on the cooling load of buildings ... - CiteSeerX
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.463...
Indoor air temperature is primarily influenced by external ... indoor air temperature variations remain within the comfort ... High mass buildings prohibit high interior air and wall ... transport property for transient heat transfer). Materials with higher thermal diffusivity ... are usually lower than indoor temperatures, it is possible to.

Thermal comfort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_comfort
Thermal comfort is the condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment and is assessed by subjective evaluation (ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55) High humidity and low temperatures cause the air to feel chilly. Cold air ...

[PDF]A Brief History of Thermal Comfort: From Effective ... - Springer
www.springer.com/cda/content/.../cda.../9783319186504-c2.pd...
This chapter is a brief history of the discipline that studies Thermal Comfort. ..... not to create the feeling of variation of the climatic conditions within the test.

HSE - Thermal comfort: The six basic factors
www.hse.gov.uk/temperature/thermal/factors.htm
The six factors affecting thermal comfort are both environmental and ... environments that are artificially heated may cause people to feel stuffy.

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Basic Considerations
Thermal comfort is defined as that condition of mind which expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment. A lot of empirical data has been collected on how these parameters are defined. This Application Note gives a short introduction on thermal comfort especially in respect of humidity and temperature.
The factors that have relevant influence on the thermal comfort of occupant’s spaces can be divided in
environmental and personal factors.

Environmental factors:
 temperature
 thermal radiation
 humidity
 air speed

Personal factors:
 personal activity and condition
 clothing

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Thermal energy can then be stored by two principles:
 Active storage
 Passive storage

The passive storage principle is a traditional way to store energy in materials. For example, in warm climates thermally heavy structures will create an indoor temperature which is more agreeable than the temperature in a similar building without high thermal mass. The penetration depth of the heat (or cold) which is stored depends on the material thermal property, the diffusivity.
Active storage is similar to passive storage, but the energy is transferred within or between materials by a heat carrier fluid in some kind duct or pipe-system. For example heat floor systems transfer the heat for the entire floor area – the energy is transfer. Two advantages with active storage are that you can store the energy in the whole material thickness and that the energy storage can be positioned away from where the excess heat is collected. One can for example move excess heat from an office building and store it in a heavy concrete structure – for example a parking garage – in a neighboring building.


Erzsébet Czopyk
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contributing to a comfortable ambience


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contributing to a comfortable ambience/creating a comfortable enviromnment

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