Advanced Personal Comfort System (APCS) for the workplace: a review and case study

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Advanced Personal Comfort System (APCS) for the workplace: a review and case study

The aim of this research is to investigate the application and performance of an advanced personal comfort system, a thermal chair, using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Building Energy Simulation (BES) and field test analysis. The thermal chair permits individual control over their immediate th...

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Main Authors:	Shazad, Sally, Calautit, John Kaiser, Calautit, Katrina, Hughes, Ben Richard, Angelo, Aquino
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2018
Subjects:	Thermal chair; Comfort; Open plan office; Thermal control; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50798/

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