Analysis of application status and development prospect of environmental chambers: A review

Abstract

Environmental chambers are a kind of equipment to simulate various conventional and extreme environments, which are usually applied to create various environmental conditions and conduct various studies related to environmental parameters. Through our review of literature of the past 30 years, environmental chambers have been mainly used in the following four aspects: pollutants’ emission characterization, human thermal comfort research, products and materials development and transformation and the reaction and behaviour of other living bodies such as animals and plants. In this paper, the current application of environmental chambers is summarized based on the research objectives, conditions and technical means. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the use of environmental chambers for research and analyze the current application of environmental chambers for the future application of environmental chambers and explore the direction of its future transformation and application.