LoginFor natural ventilation of rooms there is a wide range of possibilities with regard to the selection of window type, size and location.
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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Environmental and economic concerns linked to conventional heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems (HY AC) have sparked a renewed interest in natural ventilation, passive cooling and other low energy microclimate control strategies for b
Natural ventilation systems for industrial buildings have traditionally been designed using empirical engineering models, which often require the designer to 'over-engineer' the design to achieve a 'guaranteed' level of ventilation performance.
As the climate in the Nordic countries is cold for several months a year, windows are crucial parts of building envelopes.
This paper investigates the relationship between the neutral height for air distribution and the ventilation load in a room with displacement ventilation.
Temperature efficiency is an important index to estimate the ventilation effectiveness. Usually ,the temperature efficiency is determined through field or model tests such as gas-tracing technology.
For indoor thermal environment engineering and heating system dimensioning, naturally ventilated spaces impose difficulties due to the interaction of indoor and outdoor air flows and due to their variation in time and space.
The characteristics of a hybrid air-conditioning system, utilizing natural and mechanical ventilation, is investigated in an office setting.
This paper briefly outlines the development of a design tool for ascertaining thermal comfort in high rise buildings in the tropics.
Natural ventilation driven by a solar chimney attached to a single-room building is investigated experimentally with a small-scale model using a recently developed fine bubble technique.
An important element in the natural ventilation design procedure is the flow-pressure characteristics of a window with a given opening area.
There are many ventilation and air conditioning systems, having their own set of advantages, disadvantages and applications.
The present study deals with indoor air quality and is mainly based on an experimental work. The experimental set up is a full scale test cell with a ventilation system which comprises a fixed air supply and a mobile extract.
The "step-down" tracer gas technique was used to evaluate experimentally in a mechanically ventilated test room the effect of varying thermal boundary conditions, inlet flow rates, and inlet - exhaust grids position on the Air Change Efficiency (A
Traditionally, prediction of ventilation systems performance has been based on deterministic approach, which implies that the spread of the input parameters values is zero.
Night-time cooling of buildings is a recognized way of reducing the use of air conditioning, and hence energy consumption.
We calculate the influence of thermal mass and night ventilation on the maximum indoor temperature in summer. The results for different locations in the hot humid climate of Israel are presented and analyzed.
As heat exchanges through building envelopes and undesirable internal gains have been reduced in the last years due to energy conservation efforts, the importance of the energy needed to heat, cool and move outdoor air for ventilation has increase