Experimental study on airflow in underground space of Metro system with a constant tracer gas injection technique.

A concept of mixing ratio of piston air is developed to evaluate the portion of the injecting air from tunnel mixed with the air in platform space of metro system. And a 3- dimensional turbulent model is used to simulate the airflow in metro platform resulted by the ventilation system and moving trains. Field measurement has been conducted to verify the 3-dimensional model. This experiment is performed during the normal operation time of a metro station with constant tracer-gas injection method. The results agree well with the numerical solution.

Indirect evaporative cooling of low energy building.

With the growth of living standards, there is an increasing demand for the cooling of living space. Rational energy use demands the use of alternative ways of cooling because the energy consumption of compressor cooling is high. In this article a new cheap and efficient paperboard compact heat exchanger and indirect evaporative cooling are presented.

Modelling/simulation study of a commercial building in combination with its air conditioning system.

In line with its work on the positioning of gas air-conditioning systems in the commercial sector, the Gaz de France Research and Development Division conducted both experimental and theoretical studies. An air-conditioning system, known as the 'reference solution", was installed and equipped in a building on Division premises. The purpose of the system modelling and simulation study was above all to analyse the building's behavior regarding various criteria, while a technico-economic study compared the various (Generation systems.

Natural ventilation and artificial neural networks.

This study presents a new method of interior air motion assessment using artificial neural networks. The air motion inside a building depends not only on the external wind velocity, but also to a great extent on most of architectural parameters such as position and orientation of building, size and configuration of windows, roof geometry, whether the building is stilted or not, etc ..

A methodology for the practical assessment of natural ventilation designs in industrial buildings with reference to the indoor thermal comfort.

The design of natural ventilation devices in industrial buildings is complicated by the nonlinear interaction between the air flow rate and the indoor air temperature. Designs are therefore usually based on relatively simple calculations of the areas of ventilation openings to provide a specified flow rate at a given indoor/outdoor air temperature difference. However, the practical performance testing required for acceptance of the ventilator design still remains a difficult and dubious task.

Tools for evaluating domestic ventilation systems (IEA Annex 27).

This paper is describing the preliminary results of the Annex 27 work aiming at developing simplified tools for evaluating domestic ventilation systems. In this paper is given the tool to evaluate a system's ability to deal with different indoor air quality (IAQ) matters. In the work is used sophisticated simulation programs studying pollutant concentration either for each person or in an individual room. The evaluation is to be applied on houses that mainly are heated. This means that the tools are restricted to the heating season.

Mixing time constant for jet flow in rooms.

This paper presents a study of the dynamics of the turbulent mixing of a hot or cold air stream with the air in the interior of a building zone. Observations and CFO results of transient temperature behaviour in a fully developed jet flow field are presented. A simple model for the characteristic time-constant of the mixing process in a room is derived. The mixing of a turbulent jet, as a function of position inside the room, is also discussed. This mixing time-constant plays an important role in total system dynamic behaviour and stability.

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