LoginIn recent years, approaches to smoke management in atria have been introduced into many codes and engineering guides. This paper presents information that can be used for design analysis of atrium smoke management systems.
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The Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/I) project, currently under way in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest interstate highway program in the United States.
This paper traces the evolution of the concept for the Memorial Tunnel Fire Ventilation Test Program conducted in West Virginia during the period 1989-1995.
The Memorial Tunnel Fire Ventilation Test Program (MTFVTP) comprised three phases:
As part of a recent ASHRAE research project (781-RP), a thermal sensation prediction tool has been developed.
Dampness in residential buildings is detrimental to the health of the occupants and causes the growth of mold and decay in the fabric of the building materials.
The multiple spaces equation of ASHRAE Standard 62-1989 makes it possible to bring in a smaller fraction of outdoor air than that dictated by the critical space.
A number of approaches exist to evaluate building ventilation and indoor air quality. In some situations, the measurement and analysis of indoor carbon dioxide concentrations can be useful for understanding indoor air quality and ventilation.
Many ventilation requirements and recommendations are in the form of outdoor airflow rates per person.
The purpose of this project was to evaluate duct sealing as a means of reducing the energy consumption of hot air distribution systems in central Pennsylvania houses.
A time constant has been proposed to characterize the time it takes to fill an atrium space with smoke for design purposes.
This study was conducted to determine how sash movements affect the performance of fume hoods. The performance of two fume hoods was studied as the sashes were moved from closed to open position at speeds of 2 ft/s, 1.5 ft/s, and 1 ft/s.
ANSI/ASHRAE 110-1995, Method of Testing Performance of Laboratory Fume Hoods (ASHRAE 1995) yields quantitative data about fume hood containment and can be used in a classical total quality management (TQM) approach to process improvement.
The use of the laboratory fume hood as the primary containment device in the laboratory has been a standard practice for almost half a century. Quantitative testing of the performance of these devices, however; is a more recent discipline.
Laboratory hoods are designed to capture contaminants generated in the laboratory and discharge them outside. In many laboratories this results in several fan systems.
This paper presents a new technology for capture and containment testing in commercial kitchen ventilation research. It is called large-scale focusing schlieren system and offers a nonintrusive approach to effluent flow observation.
This paper presents results of applying the capture and containment test procedures in ASTM Fl 704-96, Standard Test Method for Performance of Commercial Kitchen Ventilation Systems, to determine the threshold capture and containment exhaust flow