Ole Fanger

Povl Ole Fanger (born July 16, 1934 in Vejlby (now Aarhus ), † September 20, 2006 in Syracuse (New York) ) was a Danish engineer.

Fanger was first a professor at Syracuse University and later at the International Center for Indoor Environment and Energy at Denmark's Technical University . He dealt with health aspects in indoor areas, with thermal comfort and the quality of indoor air. Particularly typical for the results of Fanger are the knowledge of the interplay of different thermal factors of humidity, temperature, surfaces and chemical influences. His findings are the benchmark for modern ventilation technology. Fanger was able to show that poor indoor air can cause asthma in children and have a strong negative impact on productivity in the workplace.

He introduced the olf , a measure of the strength of a source of smell. Derived from this, he introduced the unit decipole , which describes the perceived odor with a ventilation of 10 l / s.

Ole Poul Fanger's dissertation Thermal comfort: analysis and applications in environmental engineering is one of the most important works on thermal comfort . In 2001 Fanger received the Carl von Linde medal from the German Association for Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (DKV).

Ole Fanger was married and had two daughters.

literature

• Fanger, OP: Thermal Comfort , 1970
• Fanger, OP: Introduction of the Olf and the decipol Units to Quantify Air Pollution Perceived by Humans Indoors and Outdoors. In: Energy and Buildings . 12, 1988, 1-6.

honors and awards

• 1982 First non-American recipient of ASHRAE 's Holladay Distinguished Fellow Award
• 1984 First recipient of the ASHRAE's International Award
• 1988 Honorary member of the Royal Belgian Society for Engineering ATIC
• 1989 Awarded the Stockholm Building Society and the Napier Shaw Medal of Research from the British Engineering Society CIBSE
• 1989 honorary member of the Italian engineering company AICARR
• 1990 Hall-Thermotank Gold Medal, the highest award from the UK Institute of Refrigeration for a significant global contribution to refrigeration and air conditioning
• 1990 Honorary member of the Engineering Society AICVF (F)
• 1991 honorary member of the Russian Engineering Society ABOK
• 1992 F. Paul Anderson Medal, the highest distinction of the American Engineering Society ( American Society for Engineering Education )
• 1993 Honorary member of the Hungarian Society for the Science of Construction (ETE)
• 1994 membership of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Science
• 1994 Medal of Honor from the Finnish Engineering Society SULVI.
• 1995 honorary member of the Danish society DANVAK.
• 1996 Can Rasmussen Award , the highest award for engineering in Denmark
• 1996 Honorary Gold Medal of the Polish Engineering Society, PZITS
• 1996 Hermann Rietschel honor plaque of the German heating and air conditioning technology
• 1997 Hermann Rietschel Honorary President gold medal, the highest award of the German Engineering Society VDI -TGA
• 1997 John E. Worth Silver Medal from the Royal Society of Health in Great Britain
• 1998 Honorary Member of the British Engineering Society, CIBSE
• 1999 Honorary Member of the China Committee of HVAC
• 2000 honorary member of the Slovenian engineering company SITHOK
• 2000 Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore ( National University Singapore )
• 2001 SHASE was elected honorary member of the Japanese Engineering Society
• 2001 Civil Engineer of the Year from Odense Engineering School
• 2001 Medal of Honor from the Brazilian Indoor Climate Society
• 2001 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Coimbra

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honors. German Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Association, accessed on 23 August 2019 .