AIVC Technical Reports
| Air Flow Patterns within Buildings Measurement Techniques |  |
12 MB |
Claude-Alain Roulet and Luk Vandaele
AIVC Technical Note 34, 1991, 284 pp, Code TN 34
This handbook gives a comprehensive explanation of the theoretical and practical aspects of measuring important parameters for understanding air infiltration and ventilation within buildings. Discussed parameters include: airtightness of the building envelope and its component leakage paths; air exchange rates within a building and with the external environment; efficiency of the ventilation system; flow rates in the ventilation network. It has been designed so that material suited to differing levels of expertise is readily accessible.
Contents
1. Introduction |
2. Air Leakage Measurement Methods |
| 2.2 Principles of the Pressurization Techniques |
| 2.3 Pressure and Air Flow Measurements |
| 2.4 Current Techniques |
| 2.5 Treatment of Results |
| 2.6 Equipment |
| 2.7 Airtightness Measurement Techniques Standards |
| 2.8 References |
3. Air Flow Measurement Methods |
| 3.2 Basic Equations |
| 3.3 Principles of Different Methods for Determining Outdoor Air Flow Rates into a Building and Interzonal Air Flow Rates |
| 3.4 Treatment of Results |
| 3.5 Components of a Tracer Measurement System |
| 3.6 Examples of Systems |
| 3.7 Comparisons of Methods |
| 3.8 Standards |
| 3.9 References |
4. Measurement Methods Related to Efficiency |
| 4.2 Definitions |
| 4.3 Local Age of Air |
| 4.4 Planning of Mapping Experiments |
| 4.5 Room Mean Age of Air and Air Exchange Efficiency |
| 4.6 Measurement Methods Related to Ventilation Effecitveness |
| 4.7 References |
5. Measurements on Ventilation Systems |
| 5.2 Measurement of the Air Flow Rate in a Duct |
| 5.3 Air Flow Rates in a Ventilation Network |
| 5.4 Efficiency of the Ventilation System |
| 5.5 Meausrement of Air Tightness of a Duct or Network |
| 5.6 References |
Appendices |
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