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  • Principles of exergy analysis of human heat and mass exchange with the indoor environment
    Prek, Matjaž ; Butala, Vincenc
    This paper describes the application of exergy analysis to human heat and mass exchange with the indoor environment. The basis for this paper is the existence of a formal similarity between the ... parameters defining human heat and mass transfer governed by physiological processes and the parameters defining exergy destruction. Basic heat and mass transfer is calculated using a standard two-node human physiological model. To enable an exergy analysis the model was divided according to heat and mass transfer over appropriate boundaries. The exergy analysis was performed for each process with regard to the type of exergy that participates in heat and mass exchange with respect to the indoor environment. The results provide insight into the complex interactions between the human body and environment as characterized by exergy destruction. Furthermore, the analzsis indicates that at given physiological parameters only a certain combination of environmental conditions ensures minimal exergy destruction. These environmental and human conditions coincide with expected level of thermal comfort.
    Source: International journal of heat and mass transfer. - ISSN 0017-9310 (Vol. 53, iss. 25/26, Dec. 2010, str. 5806-5814)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2010
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 11577115
    DOI

source: International journal of heat and mass transfer. - ISSN 0017-9310 (Vol. 53, iss. 25/26, Dec. 2010, str. 5806-5814)
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