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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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The aim of this paper is to have a generaldiscussion of the status regarding energybuilding codes in relation to TAQ concerns.First, there is a brief discussion of the trends inenergy regulations and in IAQ concerns.
Buildings are a man-made environment built innature.
The requirements for good indoor air quality and energy efficiency have often been considered to be in conflict with each other.
The purpose of ventilation is to dilute indoor contaminants that an occupant is exposed to. In a multi-zone environment such as a house, there will be different dilution rates and different source strengths in every zone.
The purpose of this work is to present a study of the indoor environmental conditions of an office which is fully occupied and naturally ventilated by window and door opening.
Real-time control of comfort in indoor spaces needs models of temperature distribution and the air velocity field.
The present study is focused on the relation between wind speed and air temperature during the summer period over the greater Athens area.
This paper addresses the process of optimising the benefits of the natural (air) environment in the case of a high density city in which the amount of building volume is ultimately constrained.
Night cooling is promoted worldwide as an effective tool to reduce refrigerative cooling demand.
The buildings sector is a major energy consumer as it accounts for almost 40% of the EU’s energy requirements and for about 1/3 of the total energy related CO2 emissions.
Aspects of CFD Modelling of a Fan and Pad Evaporative Cooling System in Greenhouses | 2008 | English
A methodology approach to simulate, by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools, a greenhouse equipped with a fan and pad evaporative cooling system is presented.
Earth heat exchange (EHX) through buried horizontal air ducts (EHXair-hor) can be an effective passive/hybrid system to reduce heating and cooling loads in temperate climate zones.
This paper addresses the applicability of passive and low energy cooling technologies in the Czech Republic.
Effective planning of building ventilation, whether passive or mechanically assisted, requires detailed information about external air temperature.
It is difficult to design a naturally ventilated indoor environment because there is insufficient knowledge to evaluate the effect of the natural ventilation space quantitatively. Especially, natural ventilation rate is not yet fully understood.
This paper presents the preliminary findings from the first stage of a physical survey and modelling case study conducted to obtain modelled and actual energy consumption profiles for a UK multi-storey mixed use educational building (the Bute buil
Previous research has shown that air movement has a significant influence on humans’ thermal comfort.
A number of methods have been used to quantify the cooling effects of air movement on the human body. For simplicity these methods limit the number of variables influencing the effect.
The UK Building Regulations regarding the provision of openings to promote natural ventilation of dwellings were modified in 2006 and, with the increased demand for sealing of structures to prevent the ingress of unwanted air, there is the possibi