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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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Cooling in high ambient temperature (HAT) countries is a major energy consumer. In Kuwait, 70% of the electricity generated is consumed on cooling residential and commercial buildings.
In order to reduce the primary energy consumption of buildings, highly efficient heat recovery of the HVAC system is indispensable.
This paper describes the ongoing development of a new tracer gas test (TGT) for total air change rates measurement.
Recently, understanding thermal comfort management enabled the scientific community to broaden its research towards smart device set-ups, in order to further reduce energy consumption and thermal comfort satisfaction.
The ongoing covid-19 pandemic has drawn the attention on the importance of providing adequate fresh air to the occupants of the built environment, in particular in educational buildings.
Various field studies have shown that in a vast majority of European countries the quality of installed residential ventilation systems is poor, with a large proportion of systems having significantly lower installed flow rates
Our planet is rapidly urbanizing, leading to significant biodiversity loss.
How accurately can reduced-order dynamic building energy simulation models (with Dymola simulation software) simulate the indoor climate (i.e., indoor air temperature, relative humidity and CO2-concentration) in common inhabited
Industrial kitchens have high HVAC load requirements due to high exhaust rates from hoods. Especially in cold climates to heat the makeup air in winter requires high initial and - more importantly - high operating costs.
Overheating has become a recurring problem in airtight and highly insulated buildings even in moderate climates.
Worldwide concern has been focused on the airborne disease of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The fan pressurization method that is widely used to measure the airtightness of buildings is known to have quite large measurement error.
Improving actual operation performance of room air conditioners (RAC) shows great importance in the indoor environment and building energy conversation.
Due to the negative effects of Particulate Matter exposure, more and more inexpensive optical aerosol spectrometers and photometers (low-cost PM sensors) are coming to the market, which are often used to monitor air quality.
Air leakage in a rotary heat recovery device in air handling unit (AHU) was studied by a laboratory experiment.
In future building regulations, building performance is going to be extended to global performance, including indoor air quality (IAQ).
Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems attempt to achieve a uniform indoor environment.
Indoor air quality (IAQ) control in educative centres, where students spend most of their time, is essential.
The occupants’ satisfaction with the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of a building is a key factor to determine if the indoor climate can be considered as acceptable.