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The 11th AIVC Conference - Ventilation system performance, was held in Belgirate, Italy, 18-21 September 1990.

Contains 46 papers. 

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11th AIVC Conference "Ventilation system performance" (Book of Proceedings)

Vol 1: Twenty four papers from the eleventh AIVC Conference, titles as follows: “Keynote Speech”;”Indoor Air Quality in “Buildings of the Year ”Max…

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Ventilation characteristics of selected type of buildings and indoor climate.

The paper presents results of ventilation characteristics of a lecture/seminar room obtained by various door-window opening combinations and positions, and…

Zainal M, Croome D J
Design of ventilation systems in residential buildings.

Building regulations prevailing in France made it compulsory to use specific ventilation systems in new residential buildings since 1969. Different kind of…

Bienfait D
Ventilation system as an air heating system - measuring results in a residential building.

This paper presents measuring results from experiments with integrated air heating and ventilation system in airtight well-insulated buildings in Stockholm…

Werner G
Humidity controlled natural ventilation without auxiliary energy supply.

As a consequence of measures required for reducing the heating energy consumption in residential buildings , there have been more and more complaints in the…

Szerman M, Erhorn H, Stricker R
Air change rate and indoor air quality in bedrooms of well tightened residential buildings.

Measurements of air change rates, carbon dioxide concentrations, room air temperatures and relative room air humidities in bedrooms of five well tightened…

Fehlmann J, Wanner H U
Performance assessment of a humidity-controlled ventilation system.

Demand controlled ventilation systems have recently become an interesting opportunity to achieve acceptable indoor air quality while minimizing energy…

Fantozzi C, Fracastoro G V, Masoero M
Reporting guidelines for the measurement of airflows and related factors in buildings.

A set of reporting guidelines has been established. The guidelines take into account the need for data concerning airflow within buildings and air exchange…

Piggins J M, Harrje D T
Presentation of the final report Annex XIV with special emphasis on the case studies.

The paper summarises the IEA, Executive Committee on Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems, Annex 14 work on Condensation and Energy, a…

Hens H, Senave E
A simple method using tracer gas to identify the main air and contaminant paths within a room.

The main air and contaminant flow paths or the spatial distribution of the age of air (or contaminant) in a room are of great interest to estimate the…

Roulet C-A, Compagnon R, Jakob M
The influence of different ventilation devices on the occupants behaviour in dwellings.

On basis of several case studies into the ventilation behaviour in dwellings in the Netherlands, it is possible to answer the question whether the type of…

van Dongen J E F
Errors in the measurement of local and room mean age using tracer gas methods.

Local and room mean ages of the air in a room may be measured by three versions of the tracer gas technique; which are the pulse method, the tracer step-up…

Sutcliffe H C, Waters J R
Numerical and experimental study on flow and diffusion field in room.

Turbulent flow fields of velocity and diffusion in several types of mechanically ventilated rooms are precisely analyzed both by model experiment and by…

Murakami S, Kato S
Field measurements of ventilation and ventilation effectiveness in an office/library building.

Mechanical ventilation system performance involves the provision of adequate amounts of outdoor air, uniform distribution of ventilation air within the…

Persily A K, Dols W S
Natural provision of dwellings with supply air by the "Dortmund Ventilation" system.

The ventilation system described here combines a central air shaft in the hall area with a mechanical waste air extraction system in the bathroom and in the…

Trumper H, Albers K-J
Using pressurization measurements to predict ventilation performance and heating energy requirements of a large industrial building.

A single whole building pressurisation test using robust and easy to use equipment can, in a very short time, quantify the air-leakiness of the building…

Perera MDAES, Powell G, Walker R R, Jones P J
Determination of air exchange rates for demand controlled ventilation.

In this paper the required ventilation air flow rates in residences with different pollutant loads are considered. The calculative study was carried out by…

Saari M
An approach to the simulation of coupled heat and mass flow in buildings.

This paper describes the techniques used within the ESP system to represent and solve the heat and mass conservation equations relating to combined building…

Clarke J A, Hensen J L M
Room air temperature control in demand controlled ventilation systems.

The controllability of room air temperature in different heating systems connected to demand controlled ventilation systems was studied. Studied ventilation…

Haikarainen J, Kohonen R
Demand controlled ventilating systems - practical tests.

As part of the IEA Research Program Annex 18 "Demand Controlled Ventilating Systems" were tested in a one-family testhouse in relating to energy and…

Werner H
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