LoginIn France, mechanical cooling is increasingly used in office buildings.
Bibliographic database Airbase
AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.
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This study aims at evaluating the energetical benefits of increased ventilation airflow rate tocool buildings.
In this paper the potential of night ventilation techniques is investigated. Extended real scalemeasurements have been performed, in three buildings, under free floating and airconditioned operation.
In the present paper a model for steady-state thermal analysis of ventilated and unventilated light rook is proposed.
Evaporative cooling is an interesting alternative to conventional compressor refigerationsystems for air-conditioning.
This paper will present a general approach that may be used to solve natural ventilation designproblems typically addressed at the preliminary design stage - How wide should windows beopened in a given building for wind-driven cross ventilation on
This paper deals with the interzonal air movement in a building, throughhorizontal openings, under natural convective conditions.
The purpose of this research is to give an overall prospect of the performance of 4 kinds of ventilation systems for dwellings using numerical simulation under various conditions.
The series connected heat exchangers - configured either as an arrangement of gas-gas,gas-liquid or liquid-liquid heat exchangers- are widely used in the process industry andair-conditioning where they can be found in a variety of heat (cool) reco
This paper presents an analysis of different possibilities of representing mass transfers in zonal models. In this aim, formulations derived from the Navier-Stokes equations or from Euler's theorem are obtained.
Existing infiltration and exfiltration calculation methods are mainly based on the stationaryapproach, where long term mean values are used for wind input data. The real wind speed is,however, varying continuously with time.
Concentrations of indoor air contaminants are normally calculated by assuming that they fullyfollow airflow paths in a room.
The results presented here supply values for the room ventilation efficiency of a number of configurations covering as many as possible of the ventilation systems encountered in actual practice.
Checking models of thermal behaviour or ventilation of a room can be performed in specialtest cells. At EMPA a ventilation test chamber with several experimental facilities has beendesigned and built.
Air flow through doors, windows and other large openings constitutes a major factor inbuilding ventilation.
The air flow in a Passive Downdraught Evaporative Cooling (PDEC) tower has been modelled using a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code.
This investigation is part of project NATVENT TM, a concerted action of nine institutions of seven European countries under the Joule-3 program.
Perceived barriers restricting the implementation of natural or simple fan assisted ventilationsystems in the design of new office type buildings and in the refurbishment of existing suchbuildings have been identified in seven central and north Eu
This paper presents the results from the monitoring of a low energy building, namely, the Portland Building University of Portsmouth - UK) during February and July 1997.
Trouble shooting air distribution problems in mechanically ventilated offices often has to be carriedout in limited "after hours" periods.