In approach to alleviating the problems causing ‘sick building syndrome’, many types of indoor air pollution removal products have been developed. In the various performance evaluation methods for these removal products, the pollutant constant-emission te
In order to determine the causes of SHS (Sick House Syndrome), a field survey on indoor air quality and occupants’ health conditions was investigated in 60 houses in Japan. As a result, when houses that more than one occupant are “SHS” count as “Sick Hous
Blinds are used widely in numerous buildings to conserve energy and provide for occupants’ comfort in the perimeter zone. But manual or motorized blinds are limited in their ability to reduce energy consumption because occupants must control blinds themse
The interaction of flows in rooms ventilated by active chilled beams and its importance for the air distribution and occupants’ thermal comfort is studied in a full-scale room experiments. The impact of the supplied flow rate of primary air (1.5 L/s/m2 an
Conventional multiple types of perfluorocarbon tracers use the number of gases equal to the number of zones (n). The possible n×n+n airflows are solved from the mass balance of the gas and the airflow balance. However, some airflows may not occur because
There is increasing number of people suffering from “Sick-building Syndrome” in Japan. Therefore, we started “Chemi-less Town Project”, building a model town in which buildings are constructed with fewer chemicals. In this paper, we introduce the backgrou
The objective of this paper is to present the contaminant removal efficiency of a prototype air cleanerusing the adsorption/desorption effect and to investigate the practicality of this air cleaner. Toluene andformaldehyde were used as pollutant sources and were emitted at a constant rate in a test chamber.Effects of the number of sorption units, the operational time and mode on the contaminant removalperformance were examined. Sorption materials that were evaluated were a porous material, zeolite,pumice stone, and hydro-corn.
Convective heat transfer coefficient on the air side of direct expansion evaporator under low airpressure is studied by theory and experiment respectively. Results show the convective heat transfercoefficient will diminish along with the density of air under low-pressure. The lower absolute humidity ofair under lower pressure will reduce the difference of water vapor pressure between the air supply andair return. And the quantity of latent heat transfer between the evaporator and the air will decreaseaccordingly.
The outside convective heat transfer coefficient (CHTC) of building roof is an important parameter foraccurately calculating heat transfer through roof and simulating airflow around buildings. However, thecorrelations concerning CHTC in various studies seem to be discrepant. The experiment usingnaphthalene method to measuring CHTC was carried out on a nine-story building roof during 15 August2006-22 August 2006. Test specimens with glazed surface were ranged at twenty points on buildingroof. Test specimens used in this study were cast by molten naphthalene in molds.
With the change of the economic structure, most of the old industrial buildings built before 1972 inHong Kong are now used as offices or non-industrial workplaces. Those old building might not haveadequate fire safety provisions and it is difficult to upgrade these hardware provisions too. Theoccupational safety and health problems on fire safety are even more serious if the offices are use forsmall and medium enterprises which have special characteristics of small areas packed with largequantity of combustibles and high occupant loading.
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