Thermal Sleeping Environments

Shiming Deng is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial System Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Zhongping Lin is a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Dongmei Pan is a Lecturer at the School of Mechanical & Automobile Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. Ning Mao is an Associate Professor at the College of Pipeline and Civil Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China. Jing Du is a Lecturer at School of Construction Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic University, China. Guanyu Fang is an Engineer at PaXini Technology Ltd, Shenzhen, China.

1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Indoor space thermal loads for a sleep environment
4. Outdoor air ventilation for an indoor sleep environment
5. A thermal comfort model for a sleeping person
6. The thermal resistance of bedding systems used in thermal comfort model
7. Solving a comfort equation and establishing comfort charts
8. Numerical prediction of the total insulation value of a bedding system
9. A four-node thermoregulation model for predicting the thermal physiological responses of a sleeping person
10. The micro-climate around a sleeping person and the related thermal neutrality issues
11. Novel bed-based task/ambient conditioning (TAC) systems and their optimizations for a thermally neutral environment with minimum energy use
12. A radiation-based TAC system including moisture distribution and a way of mitigating condensation in a sleeping environment
13. A bed-based air source heat pump (B-ASHP) space heating system in a sleep environment
14. Practical guides to control indoor thermal environments for quality sleep
15. Conclusions and future perspectives