| Titre |
Evaluation of thermal comfort in an office building in the humid tropical climate of Benin |
| Auteurs |
KIKIGatien [1],
KOUCHADEADÉYÈMI CLÉMENT [2],
HOUNGAN COMLAN ARISTIDE [3],
ANDREPhilippe [4],
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| Journal: |
Building and Environment |
| Catégorie Journal: |
Internationale |
| Impact factor: |
0 |
| Volume Journal: |
185 |
| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107277 |
| Resume |
Benin, like most West African countries, is confronted with the lack of indoor thermal comfort standards adapted
to the realities of the region. This situation leads to the adoption of Western comfort standards, the consequences
of which can be seen in the discomfort of building occupants and above all in significant energy losses. This
justifies the need to identify, among the many comfort models developed in the literature, those that are better
adapted to the evaluation of thermal comfort in buildings in Benin. Thus, after a literature review on the subject,
two comfort models were found to be relevant for the assessment of thermal comfort in air-conditioned buildings
in hot and humid regions. These are the adaptive models of L´opez-P´erez and al. and Indraganti and al. The
application of these two models on an air-conditioned office building located in the city of Cotonou in southern
Benin, resulted in comfort temperatures of 26.1◦Cand 26◦Crespectively. These values, very close to the average
neutral temperature of the occupants (26.1◦C), reveal the effectiveness of these adaptive models in assessing
thermal comfort in the said building. Moreover, the application of Fanger’s static model (PMV) and hybrid
models (aPMV and PMVnew) has shown that the PMVand aPMVof Yao and al. underestimate the adaptability of
the occupants to relatively high comfort temperatures while the PMVnewof Olissan and al. overestimates this
adaptability. |
| Mots clés |
Adaptive comfort models, Hybrid comfort model, Hot and humid climate, Air-conditioned building |
| Pages |
1 -10 |
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