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As the world trade field is expanding, international standard of air filter is urgently needed. At present,China is undergone its revising the national standards, therefore, the development of major air filterstandards between America and Europe is compared here. Diameter distribution of KCl aerosol used inASHRAE52.2 is similar with atmospheric dust, but research for test dust representing actual conditionis still needed. Concepts for electrostatic discharge between Europe and America are different, andclassification upon minimum life efficiency (MLE) is recommended.

Potentially-harmful chemicals could be released from many indoor materials, including consumerproducts and building materials, into indoor environments. Semi-volatile chemicals (SVOCs) due totheir lower vapor pressure, are often present, either primarily in indoor dust or in both indoor air andindoor dust. Several types of SVOCs have been measured in indoor air and indoor dust of Ottawaresidential homes.

How to model airflow discharged from diffuser is believed to be one of the key issues in ComputationalFluid Dynamics (CFD) applications to indoor air problem. Due to the complicated geometric feature andthe vortex-type airflow induced by swirl diffuser, simulating such a kind of diffuser is claimed to be achallenge. A simplified method of defining the boundary conditions at round swirl inlets is developedand introduced in this paper.

In large enclosures such as gymnasiums, it is difficult to control the air temperature and create a comfortableclimate for people with respect to the heating condition. There are two main reasons that the air temperature in anoccupied area is not increased efficiently in large enclosures. 1) Hot supplied air goes up and stays in the upperarea due to buoyancy and it takes long time to reach the lower occupied area. 2) The heat capacity of the buildingstructure affects the air temperature and cold air stays in the lower area.

Thermal sensation, acceptability and comfort are the important responses while evaluating the qualityof thermal environment. Experimental investigations into the relationships between these responseswere performed separately under uniform and non-uniform conditions that produced by local cooling.Thirty male Chinese subjects in college age participated the experiment and reported their local thermalsensation of each body part, overall thermal sensation, acceptability and comfort. Under uniformconditions, overall thermal sensation, acceptability and comfort are correlated closely.

The characteristics of climate in Japan are hot and humid in summer, with cold and dry winter. For thisreason, mold growing in rooms is common during summer period. On the other hand, in winter, due tospace heating, indoor environment is over-dry as a result of low humidity.

Through modeling and computing, life cycle energy consumption (LCEC) and environmentalemission (LCEE) of twelve building materials in production process are analyzed by means oflife cycle assessment (LCA). The inventory analysis includes energy upstream, transportationand production phases. Inventory analysis of energy upstream phase is carried out usingiterative computation, while direct energy consumption and environmental emission, indirectenergy consumption and environmental emission are considered. The outcomes show thatLCA integrated value (16.73) of steel production is the highest.

A life-cycle inventory model for the office buildings is developed in this paper. The environmental effectsof two different building structures, steel and concrete, are intercompared. The results show that thesteel-framed building is superior to the concrete-framed building on the following two indexes, thelife-cycle energy consumption and environmental emissions of building materials.

Asphalt fume from Aluminum Industries is one of pollutants, which must be decontaminated in theventilation systems. In this paper, two feasible structures of adsorbers were designed: the venturi-typeadsorber with the small-diameter throat pipe and that with the flow-guiding cone. Then these two kindsof adsorbers were optimized according to the factors which influence the diffusion of the adsorbentparticles.

Indoor air quality has caught attention of the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and theEnvironment and a large campaign was started in 2005 to make the public aware of the dangers tohealth as result of poor ventilation in housing. Indoor Air Quality and thermal climate in schools isproblematic in many countries. The status quo in the Netherlands is presented. The goal of a firststudy was to evaluate the performance of exhaust-only ventilation systems and in 5 schools weremeasurements undertaken.