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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Vests with Radiative Cooling Materials to Improve Thermal Comfort of Outdoor Workers: An Experimental Study.

Yao Wang, Bohao Zhao, Hengxuan Zhu, Wei Yang, Tianpeng Li, Zhen Cao, Jin Wang

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yao WangSchool of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China.
Bohao ZhaoSchool of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China.
Hengxuan ZhuSchool of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China.
Wei YangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China.
Tianpeng LiNational Demonstration Center of Experimental Teaching for Ammunition Support and Safety Evaluation Education, Army Engineering University of PLA, Shijiazhuang 050000, China.
Zhen CaoDepartment of Thermal and Fluid Engineering, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands.
Jin WangSchool of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4513-761X

Funding

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 52176067the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province of China E2021202163the Project of Innovation Ability Training for Postgraduate Students of Education Department of Hebei Province CXZZBS2023030the Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hebei Province E2022202139
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Abstract

This study focuses on improving human thermal comfort in a high-temperature outdoor environment using vests with a radiative cooling coating. The effects of coating thickness on the radiative cooling performance were first evaluated, and an optimal thickness of 160 μm was achieved. Then, six subjects were recruited to evaluate the thermal comfort in two scenarios: wearing the vest with radiative cooling coatings, and wearing the standard vest. Compared with the standard vest, the coated vest decreases the maximum temperature at the vest inner surface and the outer surface by 5.54 °C and 4.37 °C, respectively. The results show that thermal comfort is improved by wearing radiative cooling vests. With an increase of wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), the improving effects tend to decline. A significant improvement in human thermal comfort is observed at a WBGT of 26 °C. Specifically, the percentage of thermal sensation vote (TSV) wearing the cooling vest in the range of 0 to 1 increases from 29.2% to 66.7% compared with that of the untreated vest. At the same time, the average value of thermal comfort vote (TCV) increases from -0.5 to 0.2.

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coatingpersonal cooling vestradiative coolingthermal comfortthermal sensationwet bulb globe temperature

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PMID38998723
PMCPMC11243375

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