Keynote speech describes the difficulties of designing air conditioning system with human comfort in mind. Lists design fundamentals for satisfactory indoor air quality, together with a description of some case studies.
This paper describes the use of tracer-gas techniques to measure airflow in a rectangular duct and a HVAC system. Experimental procedures are discussed for the application of the constant injection, pulse injection and decay techniques using N2O andSF6 as tracer gases. This paper also describes a new tracer-gas system with variable sampling speed which was used to measure the decay of tracer-gas concentration. A comparison is presented between tracer-gas measurements and those made with a pitot tube and a hot wire anemometer.