LoginIn so far as natural ventilation system is totally dependent on local weather conditions and building facade elements, housing ventilation cannot be permanently guaranteed.
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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In this paper, the development of a radiation module coupled with a previous 3D-CFD code is described. This module takes into account the radiative heat transfer between the active surfaces, including those relative to the occupants.
During a field campaign 13 classrooms at 4 different high-schools of the Provincia di Torino and 4 typical medium sized university classrooms of the Politecnico di Torino were monitored during winter and spring season to analyse the environmental
In hot summer days, in Bucharest the air temperature is over 36°C and the relative humidity exceeds 50 %. That explains the big air-conditioning demand for tertiary buildings.
The European Community SAVE directive 76/93 makes mandatory for member states to implement an action called Energy Labelling of buildings.
Both in domestic and public environments, dampness in buildings is a risk factor for health effects. A European group of scientists has reviewed the literature on that subject including mite exposure over the period 1998-2000.
In this paper a detailed scaling analysis of a water tank experiment designed to model a large indoor space is presented, along with experimental results obtained with this model to assess the influence of furniture and people in the pollutant co
This paper reports on an investigation of the adequacy of CFD for the predicting isothermal pollutant transport in a large indoor space with simple geometry, no furniture and no occupants.
In so far as prevalence of asthma and allergies is different from East to West Germany, a suggestion that it was associated with lifestyle factors was made.
Standard 55-2004, on thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy was recently published and approved by ASHRAE and ANSI. This article gives an overview of the key features and limits of applicability of that standard.
In this paper, the author presents what could be done to improve the poor indoor air quality in some schools :- A demand for accountability from school systems about maintenance procedures such as roof-leak repair, classroom ventilation and air-co
Has the DOAS the ability to provide sufficient air movement to meet comfort requirements ? The test results from a DOAS delivering the minimum ventilation air via overhead high induction diffusers are presented in this paper.
The search for top quality is the requirement of the professionals of "hygienisation". A description of desinfection with its methodology applied to ducts is presented : dust removal, cleaning of the surfaces before their disinfection.
A kind of protocol for the desinfection of air-handling ducts is presented in this paper with its different steps : relationship with the customer, available techniques, prerequisites for the desinfection, choice of the products and the desinfecti
The first part of this article insists on the importance of a good ventilation system (polluted air exhaust, humidity, filtration, VOCs exhaust).
Advantages and drawbacks of a Displacement Ventilation system are presented in this paper, in comparison with the traditional "mixing" ventilation cooling systems.
This paper discusses how ventilation and air distribution can have a positive or negative impact on chemical, biological and radiological agents entering buildings, on their movement within the buildings and on their removal.
This paper reports the distribution of VOC exposures, and explores the statistical associations between concentrations and common sources and modifiers of exposure, and examines the associations between personal, indoor, and outdoor exposure level
This study quantified the daily average concentrations of respirable particulates in rural homes from three Indian districts.
The aim of that study was to determine whether there was a quantifiable difference in biocontaminant levels between one school with a carpeted floor and another school with hard surface floor.