DocumentCode
2532665
Title
Heat losses from human body in weather condition of Amman city
Author
Gaith, Mohamed ; El Haj Assad, M. ; Sedaghat, Ahmad
Author_Institution
Sch. of Eng., Australian Coll. of Kuwait, Safat, Kuwait
fYear
2015
fDate
3-5 March 2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
9
Abstract
It is wrongly anticipated that the amount of fats burn in human body is related to the amount of sweating, particularly in hot months of the year. In this study, heat losses from human body are studied based on clothing habit, weather condition in Amman city, and the bio-heat transfer mechanisms. The heat losses from human body include breathing (evaporation), conduction, convection, and radiation mechanisms. It is shown that heat losses are largely prevailed by conduction and radiation compared with convection and breathing mechanisms in all months of the year. It is also realized that the heat loss by breathing air is totally depends on the dry bulb temperature of the ambient. The heat loss by convection mechanism depends on many parameters such as clothes temperature, Nusselt number, and heat convection coefficient. The heat loss by radiation mechanism depends mainly on temperature differences between clothes surface and ambient. From the results of this study, the human body losses more heat in spring and winter than summer and autumn. It is also concluded that human body burns more fats during winter and spring seasons than summer and autumn.
Keywords
biothermics; convection; evaporation; heat conduction; heat losses; heat radiation; pneumodynamics; Amman city; Nusselt number; autumn; bioheat transfer mechanisms; breathing air; breathing mechanisms; burn fats; clothes surface; clothes temperature; clothing habit; conduction; convection mechanism; dry bulb temperature; evaporation; heat convection coefficient; heat losses; human body losses; radiation mechanisms; spring; summer; sweating; temperature differences; weather condition; winter; Biological system modeling; Clothing; Heat transfer; Heating; Insulation; Lungs; Skin; Bio-heat transfer; Body temperature; Breathing; Evaporation; Human body fat;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), 2015 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Dubai
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-6064-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093743
Filename
7093743
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