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Issue title: Comfort: Papers from the 2019 International Comfort Congress
Guest editors: Peter Vink, Susanne Frohriep, Neil Mansfield, Alessandro Naddeo and Karen Jacobs
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Backes, Damian; * | Trenktrog, Marten | Eckstein, Lutz
Affiliations: Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Correspondence: [*] Address for correspondence: Damian Backes, Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika), RWTH Aachen University, Steinbachstr. 7, 52074 Aachen, Germany. Tel.:+49 241 80 25420; Fax:+49 241 80 22147; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: BACKGROUND:The increasing electrification poses new challenges with respect to thermal comfort in vehicle passenger cabins. While conventional air heating with electric heaters is technically possible, it causes significant reductions in the electric driving range. OBJECTIVE:Two contradicting objectives are to be achieved: Fast heat up to provide thermal comfort and high energy efficiency to maximize the driving range under all conditions. METHODS:This apparent area of conflict can be eased by the usage of low temperature radiation reducing the energy intensive heat up of the cabin air. In order to provide high energy efficiency, the emitted radiation should mostly be directed towards relevant body regions of the passengers, resulting in the necessity to redesign the passenger cabin. RESULTS:A novel approach to redesign and optimize the dashboard and a resulting radiation heating system are presented. In order to reduce computational effort of such an optimization, the complex three-dimensional geometry is sliced into simplified two-dimensional regions which are considered individually. The resulting heating system has been manufactured and integrated into a class A vehicle. Objective thermal comfort measurements as well as subjective comfort ratings have been conducted to validate the simulative approach and the resulting energy savings of approximately 30 %. CONCLUSIONS:The developed approach to achieve a fast time to comfort as well as an increased energy efficiency shows promising results as the heating system based on it cuts performs well considering objective and subjective measurements.
Keywords: Thermal management, thermal comfort, comfort simulation, comfort measurement
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-208003
Journal: Work, vol. 68, no. s1, pp. S29-S35, 2021
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