Applicability of thermological parameters in thermal-hygro environment building

Compares the applicability between exergy or entropy and entransy utilized in thermal-hygro environment building. Exergy or entropy is a thermological parameter to analyse conversion between heat and power, and selection of the reference state greatly influences the analysis results. Presents the physical concept of entransy and its applicability in heat transfer field. Tries out adopting entransy to study thermal-hygro environment building, which mainly consists of heat and mass transfer. Analyses the entransy losses of heat transfer and moisture transfer process in some typical thermal-hygro environment building examples. Entransy loss analysis can offer guidelines for optimization of thermal-hygro environment building.