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Total Authors: 2
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Estadual Campinas, Sch Mech Engn, Cidade Univ, Mendeleyev St 200, BR-13083970 Campinas - Brazil
[2] Ctr Univ FEI, Dept Mech Engn, Av Humberto Alencar Castelo Branco 3972-B, Sao Paulo - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 2
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | ENERGY; v. 239, n. E JAN 15 2022. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 0 |
| Abstract | |
Over the past decades, thermodynamics concepts applied to biological systems, such as the human body, have aided in explaining their functioning. The first law of thermodynamics is primarily used - from the prime research that assessed the body surface area and the temperature distribution in members to the thermal comfort conditions with Fanger methods. The second law of thermodynamics may provide new insights to this discussion because it considers the internal irreversibilities of human metabolisms to the external communications with the environment. In this study, we compared three methods to evaluate the exergy behavior of the human body with an aim to determine the thermal comfort conditions. This is defined as 30 degrees C and 50% of relative humidity. All methods indicated equivalent points of thermal comfort conditions, thus raising the question of how to apply the exergy analysis in similar reasoning for the three models. Therefore, a distinguishing feature of this study concerns the additional contributions when applying the exergy analysis in the same human thermal model. Furthermore, we attempted to compare and suggest connections or adjustments for each method to pave the way for the realization of a unified exergy model of the human body in the future. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/22883-7 - Thermodynamics analysis applied to biological systems |
| Grantee: | Carlos Eduardo Keutenedjian Mady |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |