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Significant HVAC energy savings and improvement in IEQ can be achieved if the micro environment around the occupant is controlled rather than the whole room, zone or building. This is enabled by localized personal environmental control systems (PECS). To design and optimize such systems, a detailed understanding of the interactions between PECS and the occupant's micro environment is necessary. These interactions influence the comfort, IEQ and energy savings achievable by PECS. The seminar presents advances in the modeling and control of the personal micro-environment, and to illustrate how these can influence the design of PECS.

• Personal Environment Conditioning with Minimum Exergy Loss
  Shinsuke Kato, Dr.Ing., Fellow ASHRAE, University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan
  
• Delivering Efficient Local Cooling/Heating Using a Micro Environmental Control System (μX)
  Meng Kong, Student Member, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
  
• Control of the Personal Micro-Environment
  Arsen Melikov, Ph.D., Fellow ASHRAE, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
  
• The Role of Thermal Plume in Person-to-Person Contaminant Cross-Transmission
  Xudong Yang, Ph.D., Fellow ASHRAE, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Run Time: 90 mins.