본 실험에서는 Ardisia속 자생식물의 온도 및 습도 변화에 따른 온열환경을 조사함으로써 자생식물의 이 용에 가능한 기초 자료를 제공하고자 실시하였다. 가로 2m, 세로 1.3m, 높이 1.8m, 총 부피가 4.68m3의 밀 폐된 유리 챔버 내에 온도 조건 변화에 따른 실내공 간의 온도 및 습도변화를 측정한 결과, Ardisia속 식 물에 의한 실내온도의 변화는 24oC 이상의 고온에서 는 식물이 없는 상태에 비해 감온 효과가 있었으며 3 종의 식물 간 큰 차이는 보이지 않았다. Ardisia속 식물 중에서 백량금이 온도 변화에 따른 습도 변화가 가장 민감하게 일어나 13%의 습도 변화를 보였고 57.3±3.1%로 비교적 높은 습도를 보였는데, 이에 비해 자금우는 8%, 산호수는 9%의 습도 변화를 보였고 자 금우와 산호수 모두 대부분의 낮 시간 동안 50~55% 의 실내 적정습도 범위를 유지했다. 식물체의 실내 발 열체로서의 열성능 평가 결과, 실내 온도를 28oC에서 26oC로 감온 시에는 식재에 의한 냉방 효과가 비식재 공간에 비해 7.5~13.6배 높았고, 적정온도 이상의 고 온에서는 자금우에 의한 냉방 효과가 백량금과 산호수 에 비해 더 좋았으며 적정온도를 유지하는데 효과적이 었다. 실내 저온 조건에서는 비식재 공간이 식물을 배 치한 경우보다 높은 열량을 나타내 식물이 저온 조건 에서 냉방효율을 낮추므로 적정온도를 유지하는데 효 과적이었다. 이로서 Ardisia속 식물은 고온의 실내에서 주위의 온도를 저하시키고 적정온도를 유지시키는데 효 과적임을 알 수 있었다.

In order to work out statistics of environmental functions of indoor landscape plants in architectures, this study aims to conduct a simulation of how much control plants have over overheating phenomena in atria in summer, involve themselves in air current speed and maintain indoor comfort index, with a numerical analysis model. Thus, nine kinds of representative plants which are usually used for indoor environments were selected, and purified with two irrigations a day for two weeks. And then, their transpiration and photosynthesis amounts were measured three times with a photosynthesis analysis system LICO-6400 at 38℃, which is the highest temperature in the atrium in summer. The data were organized, and another three plants with similar transpiration and photosynthesis amounts were selected. The leaf area which accounts for 10% green zone rate inside the atrium was calculated, and the leaf surplus was removed. And then, the plants were left inside the atrium, and transpiration amount and temperature change were automatically measured for three hours. The maximum temperature change by transpiration of plants was found to be 2.21~2.92℃, which means 0.21~0.23℃ per every 100cm² of leaf area.It is hard to see air current change in atria as convection by plants as the change is at undetectible level with a distribution of 0.08~0.005m/s. However, if air current change is made with fans even in natural air current situations, air current becomes active inside atria as rather cold air moves upward. Therefore, if 0.5 m/s of air current change is made with upward and downward fans in atrium models, the air current speed in the entire atrium converges to the level which gives the most comfort to human.

Thermal neutrality is not enough to achieve thermal comfort. The temperature level can be the optimal, and still people may complain. This situation is often explained by the problem of local discomfort. Local discomfort can be caused by radiant asymmetry, local air velocities, too warm and too cold floor temperature and vertical temperature difference. This temperature difference may generate thermal discomfort due to different thermal sensation in different body parts. Therefore, thermal comfort can not be correctly evaluated without considering these differences. This study investigates thermal discomfort sensations of different body parts and its effect on overall thermal sensation and comfort in air-heating room. Experimental results of evaluating thermal discomfort at different body parts in an air-heating room showed that thermal sensation on the shoulder was significantly related to the overall thermal sensation and discomfort. Although it is known that cool-head, warm-foot condition is good for comfort living, cool temperature around the head generated discomfort

Draft is defined as an unwanted local cooling of the human body caused by air movement. It is a serious problem in many ventilated or air conditioned buildings. Often draft complaints occur although measured velocities in the occupied zone maybe lower than prescribed in existing standards. Purpose of this study is to clarify the evaluation of thermal comfort based on temperature and air velocity in winter. Experiments were performed in an environmental chamber in winter. Indoor temperature and air velocity was artificially controlled. The experiments were performed to evaluate temperature conditions and air velocity conditions by physiological and psychological responses of human. According to physiological responses and psychological responses, it was clear that the optimum air velocity is about 0.15 m/s and 0.30 m/s.

This study was performed to investigate the fluid flow characteristics, the temperature distribution, humidity and PMV(Predicted Mean Vote of thermal sensation) distributions of the 3-dimensional room with side wall exhaust. The finite volume method and turbulence k-ε models with the SIMPLE computational algorithm are used. As the results of the three dimensional simulations, the region of exceeding Y=1.5m was high temperature and humidity. The inlet velocity and temperature were influenced to the floor strongly, and the room PMV was about -1.0 except the inlets.