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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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This AIVC Technical Note has been produced in the frame of the EU RESHYVENT project, conducted from January 2002 to December 2004. An outline of this project is given in the introduction of this report.
An understanding of airflow patterns in operating rooms is required if the design of air distribution systems in such environments is to be improved and the risk of postoperative infection reduced.
The innovation of computational simulations at the design stage can provide a more accurate prediction of building characteristics. Presenting information about practical cases is essential to validate the usefulness of computed predictions.
Measurements of the unsteady flow in a ventilation stack of a school have been made at model scale in an environmental wind tunnel.
The assessment of building thermal comfort quality in the Mediterranean context necessitates an accurate knowledge of air temperature and velocity fields inside the space.
The design of a building should provide the flow paths needed for natural ventilation.
Natural ventilation using open windows is an energy efficient and effective method of providing a good indoor air climate in schools. However, open windows not only let fresh air into the building but also external noise.
This paper reports the findings of a field study and telephone survey into the impact of window replacement on air infiltration and moisture problems in UK dwellings.
Recently, in the Polish building sector, there has been a conflict between ventilation techniques and a strong tendency toward increasing building airtightness.
The air conditioning of large non-domestic buildings is becoming an increasing trend, even in moderately mild climatic zones. This is often needed to avoid overheating that results from high internal heat gains and solar radiation.
In order to study the energy performance of a school building incorporating a hybrid ventilation system in Grong, Norway, a detailed field experiment was carried out.
‘Supply air’ windows are designed with an air gap between the inner panes of glass that is used as the incoming air path for room ventilation; air is pre-warmed within the window and thereby avoids the sensation of draughts.
A ventilation system integrating a buried-pipe technique with multi-purpose windows | 2005 | English
This paper introduces a ventilation system that combines buried-pipes with multi-purpose windows with the aim of finding an energy efficient, environment-protecting and low-cost way to improve the indoor environment.
The paper presents a procedure to estimate natural ventilation flow rates through buildings.
Human thermal comfort is influenced by psychological as well as physiological factors. Several comfort indices, such as PMV, PPD, TSENS, ET*, DISC, and SET* (see nomenclature) have been developed.
Fans are used in many industrial, building and household applications, especially for ventilation, and are often considered as particularly noisy components.
When an obstruction is present in a ventilation ductwork, the noise level may be considerably higher than the level measured without the obstruction.
Conventional methods of multi-zone airflow analysis ignore mechanical energy conservation in forming the system equations governing building airflows.
Among the tools which serve to predict heat and mass transfer in a mechanically ventilated room, CFD is increasingly used. However, this type of tool needs a correct description of the boundary conditions, especially concerning the air inlet.