LoginFollowing a sensory panel assessment of perceived air quality, proposes the use of a simple measurement method based on a dilution system connected to a ventilated small-scale test chamber in order to characterise the emissions from materials in s
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Describes a project to examine the secondary air filters in the air handling units on four floors of a multi-storey office building which had a history of fungal colonization of insulation in the air distribution system.
In seven hospitals in the eastern United States air filters of various types, selected by discoloration, were collected from the primary and secondary filter banks of the HVAC systems.
The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of humidification on the odour, acceptability and stuffiness of indoor air.
Measurement were operated in Ottawa’s Laurier House (an historical house built in 1878 now being a museum) to determine the temperature and humidity conditions under which condensation occurs on ‘historic’ windows.
Researchers involved in studying problems concerning the built-up environment face an objective complexity, of easy instrumental evaluation, and a subjective complexity which is psycho-physiological concerning human beings with different individua
An approach to the steady-state simulation of heat pumps and refrigerating equipment is presented. Novel features of the proposed model are the strategy and formalism adopted in the programme development.
Tests were conducted on two instrumented air-cooled water chillers (15 kW and 30 kW cooling capacity). Refrigerants evaluated included R22 as the baseline fluid, R407C and R410B.
In this paper, a part of the results of a study realised in Chambéry to develop the use of solar energy in small and medium European cities is presented.
NEXT 21 is the experimental residential building ,completed in October 1993 at Osaka. Main theme of this project is to create comfortable housing for early 21th century life without the increase of stress to urban environment.
A computational model for the detailed design of finned-tube heat exchangers is presented.
The research we develop consists of evaluating "radiative comfort" during no heating periods in office buildings.The expression "radiative comfort" is used to characterise the thermal and visual component of the feeling of peop
It is well-known that there exist indoor temperature distributions.
The aim of this work is the realization of a design tool, which is a multiple model software called « CODYRUN », suitable for professionnals and usable by researchers.
In order to optimise new buildings designers need calculation methods which help them to assess the effect of design choice on energy consumption and expenses.
The objective of this work is to train an artificial neural network (ANN) to learn to predict the required heating load of buildings with the minimum of input data.
One of the great influential feature on room temperature distribution is the insulation quality of the room.
A hourly simulation in dynamic conditions of building-plant system is able to give a rigorous evaluation of seasonal performances of a heat pump using outside air as cold source.