Thermal Comfort Model for Underground Engineering of China

Abstract

Chinese territory is vast, on one hand, the underground engineering distributes extensively, the weather condition is quite different from different regions; on the other hand, the various factors impacting the thermal parameters are different from surface engineering. The way of traditional design temperature was very limited, it was very necessity to explored the rational thermal comfort model. The theory related to thermal comfort was studied, especially focusing on adaptive thermal comfort model. Based on the analysis of factors influencing thermal comfort and research of some engineering, the thermal comfort model for the protective engineering was proposed and its rationality and energy saving effect were explored.