2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of cooling clothing and its validation
| Project/Area Number |
24656335
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Architectural environment/equipment
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| Research Institution | Shinshu University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
MORIKAWA Hideaki 信州大学, 繊維学部, 教授 (10230103)
MIZUTANI Chiyomi 大妻女子大学, 家政学部, 准教授 (00261058)
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| Research Collaborator |
TOMINAGA Naoto 信州大学, 大学院工学研究科, 修士生
MELIKOV Arsen デンマーク工科大学, 教授
KOLENCIKOVA Sona デンマーク工科大学, 修士生
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | パーソナル空調 / 熱的快適性 / 冷却衣服 / オフィス |
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| Research Abstract |
We developed a cooling clothing system that gives cooling effect by water evaporation to the human body. We performed human subject experiments in climate chambers maintained at 30 C and RH 50% or 25 C and RH 50% to clarify the characteristics of our cooling clothing system compared with those of some isothermal personal convective cooling systems. We confirmed that the simultaneous use of the cooling clothing with some convective cooling systems made subjects easier to adapt to the high temperature environment than the single use of a convective cooling system. Thermal manikin experiments were conducted in a climate chamber maintained at 29 C and RH 50% to evaluate the cooling effect of our cooling clothing systems. The cooling clothing accelerated heat diffusion on the chest and back neck by 42.3 W/m2 while no cooling effect was observed for the other body parts.
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