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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Contaminant dispersion and potential draft risk in a workshop with displacement venti.la tion were investigated with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques.
Peng S H, Davidson L
The concept of air exchange efficiency of ventilation, a quantity entirely determined by the spatial distribution of the local mean age of air, is discussed. A divergence-type conservation equation for the local mean age of air is derived.
Roos A
Task-ambient air conditioning system is one of the systems developed to achieve quality indoor thermal environment and energy conservation simultaneously.
Nakamura Y, Mizuno M, Ueno O, Sekimoto Y, Akagi K, Mishima N, Otaka K, Kohyama M
Displacement ventilation is acknowledged to be an efficient system for the removal of contaminants and excess heat from occupied zones of rooms, this system is aiming at supplying clean undiluted supply-air directly to the zone of occupation.
Li Q, Meng G
Previous full scale experiments gave us a global and qualitative understanding of the gas circulation in a ventilated room in case of fire.
Espi E, Berne Ph, Duverneuil P
Cheap 3D models for visualization of room ventilation applications are now available. VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language) is found to be a good format to describe buildings, rooms and furniture.
Nielsen A
Improvement in methods of air flow pattern scale modelling in large enclosure requires above all, précising the conditions necessary in the model in order to maintain Reynolds number independence of the mean flow, as well as defining ways in which
Popiolek Z, Mierzwinski S, Hurnik M, Wojciechowski J
This paper introduces the infrastructure of Microflo CFO modelling system in conjunction with the virtual simulation environment.
Tang D
The process of air exchange can be described through both planar and spatial network system. It depends on a few random variables (those related to climate) and also on controlled variables (i.e. those like arrangement, etc.).
Piotrowski J Z
A new experimental set-up to investigate the physical process of dust deposition and resuspension on and from surfaces is introduced. Dust deposition can reduce the airborne dust concentration considerably.
Lengweiler P, Nielsen P V, Moser A, Heiselberg P, Takai H
Several studies have shown that the lowest concentrations of contamination in operating theatres are achieved by using fabric covered laminar airflow systems.
Scheer F A, Fitzner K
Microbial monitoring of the indoor environment can be performed in several ways and with the aid of different techniques.
Ljungqvist B, Reinmuller B
The occupants of buildings are exposed to a range of aerosol contaminants, of both indoor and outdoor origin; at present, filtered mechanical ventilation is the only effective means of airborne particulate control in polluted urban areas.
Lai C K, Byrne M A, Goddard A J H
Future information age technology will demand cleaner and more cleanrooms for the manufacture, assembly and repair of electronic components.
Haque M A, Halldane J F
Determination of the distribution of contaminant particles within zones becomes of great interest, with the increasing concern for indoor air quality.
Chung K C, Chiang C M
This article describes a new and more efficient Vortex Air Distribution system for a soda recovery boiler house. Essentially th.e technology utilises directional air supply of up to 150 m3/s to compensate for beat gains of up to 2000 kW.
Livtchak A, Laurikainen J, Haapio J, Ahtila P
Effective ventilation systems for a factory where various kinds of contaminant are discharged from many point sources are investigated in this study. Two ventilation systems are examined by scale model experiment using tracer gas.
Kobayashi N, Yamanaka K, Kikuchi S

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