Should electric fans be used during a heat wave?

Jay, Ollie; Cramer, Matthew N.; Ravanelli, Nicholas; Hodder, Simon

doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2014.07.013

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“…• C (118 • F) (35). Additionally, working people usually move their arms and legs, generating their own air movement over their skin (∼1 meter per second).…”

Section: Methods To Quantify Health Impacts Of Heatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heat, Human Performance, and Occupational Health: A Key Issue for the Assessment of Global Climate Change Impacts

Kjellström

Briggs

Freyberg³

et al. 2016

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Ambient heat exposure is a well-known health hazard, which reduces human performance and work capacity at heat levels already common in tropical and subtropical areas. Various health problems have been reported. Increasing heat exposure during the hottest seasons of each year is a key feature of global climate change. Heat exhaustion and reduced human performance are often overlooked in climate change health impact analysis. Later this century, many among the four billion people who live in hot areas worldwide will experience significantly reduced work capacity owing to climate change. In some areas, 30-40% of annual daylight hours will become too hot for work to be carried out. The social and economic impacts will be considerable, with global gross domestic product (GDP) losses greater than 20% by 2100. The analysis to date is piecemeal. More analysis of climate change-related occupational health impact assessments is greatly needed.

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“…• C (118 • F) (35). Additionally, working people usually move their arms and legs, generating their own air movement over their skin (∼1 meter per second).…”

Section: Methods To Quantify Health Impacts Of Heatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heat, Human Performance, and Occupational Health: A Key Issue for the Assessment of Global Climate Change Impacts

Kjellström

Briggs

Freyberg³

et al. 2016

Annu. Rev. Public Health

404

271

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“…As mentioned before, P DG,max i varies with temperature; therefore, the corrected maximum power based on the ambient temperature should be used instead. To do this, we have used the data available in [13] and have fit a linear curve to it, as indicated in (2). It should be noted that this particular DG unit has been chosen for demonstration purposes, and different units may demonstrate slightly different behavior with temperature variations.…”

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“…Among extreme weather events, past instances of heat waves in the United States especially in 2006 and 2012 [1,2], as well as the 2003 heat wave in Europe and some parts of Asia [3,4] and the 2009 heat wave in Australia [5] have gained widespread attention. Heat waves are meteorological events that are generally considered as a "prolonged period of excessive heat" [5].…”

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Optimal energy management of a distribution network during the course of a heat wave

Choobineh

Tabares-Velasco

Mohagheghi

2016

Electric Power Systems Research

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“…Therefore, our findings cannot be generalized to most heat wave conditions. Rather, our findings provide the first validation of a model proposed by Jay et al 5 that predicts the environmental limits at which fan use is either beneficial, or of marginal benefit, or detrimental. This model is reproduced in Figure 1.…”

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“…Second, the effects of fan use will differ according to the environmental conditions used. As the model proposed by Jay et al 5 clearly highlights, there is a finite range of environmental conditions within which electric fans will be beneficial. However, the benefits of fan use (as predicted by this model) might be overestimated for very hot and dry environments.…”

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