308 Thermal Enviroment Evaluation System for Burnt Gas Behavior and Thermal Strain for Kitchen Workers to Develop a New Gas Cooking Stove

Abstract

Recently, for development of gas cooking stoves used in kitchens, lower thermal strain for kitchen workers has been required. A novel evaluation system of the thermal environment caused by the gas cooking stove under development is proposed in this paper. The proposed system consists of two types of meas uring system. The first system "Mock-up", which has the same heat-transfer structure as that of human body, measures the typical human skin temperature of kitchen workers who have been heat-radiated with the stove. The another system is for a wide-area visualization of behaviors of the hot-gas from the stoveand the boiling pot on it.