Assessment of indoor environmental comfort for individuals wearing face masks of different thickness
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/152894/edition/133556/content" target="_blank" >https://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/152894/edition/133556/content</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24425/aep.2024.152894" target="_blank" >10.24425/aep.2024.152894</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Assessment of indoor environmental comfort for individuals wearing face masks of different thickness
Original language description
The present paper experimentally analyses the subjective assessment of indoor environment comfort based on a questionnaire survey conducted in a climate chamber located at Kielce University of Technology (Poland), if two types of face masks are worn by the respondents: thin (medical) and thick (cotton-made) masks. Air temperature and relative humidity in the chamber ranged from around 19 to 28oC and 20 – 70%, respectively. Precise measurement of the microclimate parameters was obtained with a microclimate meter, which recorded air temperature and relative humidity at the moment of completing the questionnaires. The respondents were of similar age (22 – 31 years old) and wore two types of clothing during the experiments: summer and winter, which differed by thermal resistance. This value amounted to 0.5 clo for the summer outfit and 0.8 clo for the winter one. In total 960 questionnaires were analysed in the study. The results indicate that the increase in air temperature led to poorer overall comfort, while the largest comfort sensation was recorded for the most favourable thermal sensation range. In general, thicker masks provided lower overall comfort than thinner masks for all relative humidity values. © 2024 Polska Akademia Nauk. All rights reserved.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10500 - Earth and related environmental sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Archives of Environmental Protection
ISSN
2083-4772
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
50
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
43-50
UT code for WoS article
001381575900005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85213466029