LoginThe present study aims at assessing the geo-climatic potential applicability of controlled natural ventilation (CNV) as a natural ventilative cooling (NVC) technique in the Mediterranean area.
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This paper presents a parametric study on the effect of different TMY (Typical Meteorological Year) datasets on the results of energy dynamic simulation.
This work presents an energy assessment of the natural ventilation performance within buildings located on both hot-temperate and mild-temperate conditions such as the existing along the central region of Mexico.
Regulatory compliance checks on samples of residential ventilation systems are operational in France. The analysis of their results shows a significant rate of non-compliance with the ventilation regulation (rate on the order of 50%).
A novel HVAC system combining natural ventilation with diffuse ceiling inlet and thermally activated building systems (TABS) has the ability to fulfill the requirements of cooling and ventilation in future Danish office buildings.
This paper presents and analyses the performance of an integrated system with diffuse ceiling ventilation and a thermally activated building construction. A full-scale experiment is carried out in a hot box with an office setup.
Ventilation air may be provided in buildings by means of natural or mechanical strategies. When a HVAC system is installed, thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ) may be controlled with higher precision.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) has traditionally been assumed innocuous at the typical levels indoors, and merely an indicator of metabolic emissions from humans (bioeffluents).
This paper presents different ventilation solutions for the retrofit in existing school building with a special focus on historic buildings.
The scientific literature often reports example of educational buildings with extremely poor ventilation performance.
In the definition of the nZEB, the use of only one requirement is misleading. Different requirements are combined to a coherent assessment of an nZEB and to fit the definition given by the EPBD (2010/31 /EU) in article 2.
The current regulation in Spain regarding Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) provisions is Building Code (Código Técnico de la Edificación) for dwellings and Regulations on Building Heating Installations (Reglamento de las Instalaciones Térmicas en los Edif
The field research project MONICAIR indicates that ventilation systems that fully comply with Dutch building codes show large differences in their IAQ-performance in habitable rooms during heating season and do not always achieve acceptable IAQ-le
Air curtain assisted range hoods are very customary in large industrial kitchens. They allow to increase the capture efficiency of the range hood while lowering the net exhaust flow rate.
Airborne particles released from surgical team members are major sources of surgical site infections (SSIs).
This key note presents the objectives, approaches and expected results of the on-going annexes relevant for ventilation and air infiltration in buildings and illustrate the importance of and expectations to an increased cross-annex coordination an
According to past researches, most people spend 80%-90% of their time indoors. The ventilation is very important to people’s health and the comfortable surroundings around us.
In an extensive simulation study using a multi-zone airflow and contaminant transport calculation software (CONTAM) recommendations for the supply air rates for residential housing were derived as input for the revision of the Austrian standard ÖN
In 2011, the Danish Energy Agency initiated a study into ventilation solutions for the retrofit of schools to identify the most promising technologies.
Mechanical ventilation performance is a key issue related both to energy efficiency and indoor air quality.