In occupational hygiene the common practice is to use dilution ventilation (MIXVENT) which ideally requires perfect mixing. Increasingly, however, displacement ventilation (DISPVENT) is being applied; ideally this involves fresh air displacing contaminated air without mixing. Keeping MIXVENT as a reference the approach of intervention was used to estimate the potential of DISPVENT for improving environmental conditions in a garment sewing plant. Air exchange efficiency of MIXVENT came to 49%. DISPVENT improved the efficiency to a level of 57%.
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