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Thermal Simulation of a Supermarket Cold Zone with Integrated Assessment of Human Thermal Comfort

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Ricardo Noversa,

Nelson Rodrigues,

José Teixeira,

Senhorinha TeixeiraAuthors Info & Claims

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020: 20th International Conference, Cagliari, Italy, July 1–4, 2020, Proceedings, Part VI

Pages 214 - 227

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58817-5_17

Published: 01 July 2020 Publication History

Abstract

This work seeks to analyze the thermal comfort of the occupants in a large building of Commerce and Services, integrating measures of assessment and energy efficiency promotion. The building is still in the construction phase and at its conclusion, will correspond to a supermarket located in the Central region of Portugal. For the evaluation of thermal comfort, Fanger’s methodology was used, where the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) and Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied (PPD) were calculated based on a detailed analysis of the environmental variables. These are essential to obtain, namely, mean air velocity, mean radiant temperature, mean air temperature and relative humidity. The other crucial variables are the metabolic rate and the thermal clothing resistance. The simulations necessary for the thermal comfort assessment were performed in ANSYS Fluent, in order to minimize the energy consumption in the cold thermal zone of the building, the sales area with frozen and chilled food, by means of reducing the inflow of air, without compromising thermal Comfort. The final results showed that the reduction of the amount of air to be inflated did not compromise the thermal comfort of the occupants. The Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methodology allowed the creation of comfort maps, albeit for a single zone due to computational limitations. According to the results, the most comfortable zone was located right below the air insufflation with the summer being a more comfortable season. In winter, the main problem detected was the cold located near the floor.

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Thermal Simulation of a Supermarket Cold Zone with Integrated Assessment of Human Thermal Comfort
1. Applied computing
  1. Physical sciences and engineering
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Model development and analysis

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020: 20th International Conference, Cagliari, Italy, July 1–4, 2020, Proceedings, Part VI

Jul 2020

1066 pages

ISBN:978-3-030-58816-8

DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-58817-5

Editors:
Osvaldo Gervasi
University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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Beniamino Murgante
University of Basilicata, Potenza, Potenza, Italy
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Sanjay Misra
Chair- Center of ICT/ICE, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria
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Chiara Garau
University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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Ivan Blečić
University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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David Taniar
Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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Bernady O. Apduhan
Department of Information Science, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Ana Maria A. C. Rocha
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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Eufemia Tarantino
Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Carmelo Maria Torre
Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy
,
Yeliz Karaca
Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

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Esteves DSilva JMartins LTeixeira JTeixeira S(2021)Building Energy Performance: Comparison Between EnergyPlus and Other Certified ToolsComputational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 202110.1007/978-3-030-86653-2_36(493-503)Online publication date: 13-Sep-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-86653-2_36
Brito JSilva JTeixeira JTeixeira S(2021)Energy Performance of a Service Building: Comparison Between EnergyPlus and TRACE700Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 202110.1007/978-3-030-86653-2_27(364-375)Online publication date: 13-Sep-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-86653-2_27

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