LoginEvaluation of the ventilation effect and indoor air quality in ventilated rooms is very important for ventilation system design.
Bibliographic database Airbase
AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.
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To save energy and comply with the IAQ procedure in ASHRAE Standard 62-1999 or to add protection to occupants and contents in a building, more building owners and facility managers are using gas-phase filtration (GPAFE) in their buildings.
This paper presents the effects of façade design on crossventilation for Taiwanese elementary schools that are typically naturally ventilated. A prototype classroom that serves 30 students with divided upper and lower windows was used.
Dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS) are first defined. Then the single-space operating system, whose performance is presented here, is shown to conform to that definition.
During the last few years, new technologies have been introduced for real-time continuous measurement of the flow rates of outdoor air (OA) into HVAC systems; however, an evaluationof these measurement technologies has not previously been publishe
Although the rate of outdoor air (OA) ventilation has a substantial influence on building energy consumption and occupant health, the available data indicate the outdoor air ventilation rates are poorly controlled in many buildings.
Airflow patterns and air velocity within an aircraft cabin have profound effects on the thermal environment and air quality around passengers.
Air distribution is one of the most important factors determining thermal comfort and transport of airborne contaminants in aircraft cabins.
A project completed in 2004 titled Alternatives to Compressor Cooling showed that carefully controlled mechanical ventilation cooling can significantly reduce summer peak load and can eliminate the need for vapor compression cooling in areas betw
With sponsorship from the US Department of Energy, a research project has designed, fabricated, and tested improvements to an air conditioner’s outdoor unit fan system.
This paper introduces an improved model of a honeycomb UV/PCO air purifier that accounts for the combined effects of the nonuniform UV irradiation field resulting from a finite number of lamps and the variation of the local mass transfer coefficie
The results of a literature survey and an engineering analysis are presented that evaluate the process, technical, and sizing considerations of photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) as a commercial technology to treat (i.e., remove) low-level contaminant
Several approaches to estimate the cost of installing and operating a photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) device for application in various treatment concerns are presented.
This paper describes the CFD analysis of the atrium smoke control system at the Newseum. The Newseum is a museum dedicated to news, and its new building will become a major attraction in Washington, DC.
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the value of using performance-based design techniques in the design of atrium smoke management systems.
A deteriorated indoor climate is commonly related to increases in sick building syndrome (SBS) symptoms, respiratory illnesses, sick leave, reduced comfort, and losses in productivity. The cost of this for society is high.
Indoor temperature is one of the fundamental characteristics of the indoor environment. It can be controlled with a degree of accuracy dependent on the building and its HVAC system.
This paper presents recent findings on the impact of temperature and ventilation on call-handling performance and selected sick building syndrome symptoms of call center operators near thermal neutral conditions.
The annual costs of energy and maintenance in running a heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system and life-cycle costs (LCC) of investments for improving air quality in an office building were compared with the resulting revenues fr
In this study, CFD models are used to test the performance of alternate design strategies as applied to a single data space.