Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the University of Tasmania, Australia
- Investigates the scientific and business factors that have resulted in air-conditioning being a major contributor to climate-change
- Proposes the theory of personalized thermal comfort as potential solution of the air-conditioning conundrum and describes the invention of DTAC: the Ductless Task-Air-Conditioning unit
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Air-conditioning
- Architecture engineering inter-disciplinary
- Brain Cooling
- Climate Change
- Comfort Energetics
- Comfort Temperature
- Ductless Task Air-conditioning (DTAC) System
- Ductless task air-conditioning
- Market-oriented Solution
- Office Productivity
- Personal cooling unit
- Personalised Thermal Comfort
- Research commercialization innovation
- Thermal comfort
- Climate change management
About this book
The dissertation investigates the scientific and business factors that have resulted in air-conditioning being a major contributor to climate-change. With his architectural background, the author demonstrates how a design methodology, not commonly adopted in scientific studies, may actually be a suitable way of dealing with a complex problem: the 'business as usual' scenario involving building science, sociological values and consumer behavior. Using his innovations as case studies, the author shows how good ideas cannot be evaluated on scientific merit alone and demonstrates why commercialization may have a pivotal role in deployment of research-based technology. He advances the theory of personalized thermal comfort which can potentially resolve the air-conditioning conundrum.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Future of Thermal Comfort in an Energy- Constrained World
Authors: Tim Law
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00149-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00148-7Published: 03 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03333-4Published: 20 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00149-4Published: 19 April 2013
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 329
Topics: Building Construction and Design, Climate Change Management and Policy, Energy Efficiency, Market Research/Competitive Intelligence