LoginSustained efforts to conserve energy during the last 15 years have taken place at the expense of the indoor environmental quality. Ventilation air volume has been reduced to a minimum.
11th AIVC Conference - Belgirate, Italy - 18-21 September 1990
The 11th AIVC Conference - Ventilation system performance, was held in Belgirate, Italy, 18-21 September 1990.
Contains 46 papers.
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Indoor air quality in "Buildings of the Year". Maximum productivity - Minimum of complaints. | 1990 | English
The performance of ventilation provision in subfloor cavities is relevant to the fields of energy efficiency, condensation risk, and air quality.
This paper describes the activity on Air Infiltration and Ventilation of the research group of "Dipartimento di Energetica" in Politecnico of Turin.
An investigation has been carried out using computational fluid dynamics methods to study the performance of an air curtain at the door of a heated building.
Keynote speech describes the difficulties of designing air conditioning system with human comfort in mind. Lists design fundamentals for satisfactory indoor air quality, together with a description of some case studies.
A new turbinemeter is developed to be used as a ventilating rate sensor in livestock buildings.
The use of computers for data acquisition and analysis in air exchange measurements with tracer gases has become state of the art for the researcher.