A field experiment on indoor consistency distribution of combustion gas by ventilation performance of range hood.

In apartments of Korea, exhaust-only hood system is commonly installed for kitchen ventilation. However, as to resident's increasing complaints recently due to poor indoor air quality and hood noise, a careful review regarding kitchen ventilation system came to be in need. This paper presents a research that was conducted to improve ventilation problems in the existing kitchen of apartments. For this purpose, a field test has been carried out to examine the effect of range hood's exhaust airflow rates, and makeup air inlet's settings on kitchen ventilation efficiency. The results show that the proper application of makeup air inlet is useful for mediating indoor air pollution by combustion gas emitting from the cooking appliances.