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The 17th AIVC Conference - Optimum Ventilation and Air Flow Control in Buildings, was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, 17-20 September 1996.

Contains 62 papers.

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17th AIVC Conference "Optimum Ventilation and Air Flow Control in Buildings" (Book of Proceedings)

The book of proceedings from the 17th AIVC Conference "Optimum Ventilation and Air Flow Control in Buildings", Gothenburg, Sweden, 17-20 September 1996…

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Ventilation measurements in a cinema.

This paper reports on the ventilation measurements in a cinema using the tracer-gas technique. Both the local and room air exchange efficiencies were…

Jin Y, Sorensen B R, Sveen S E
Passive cooling, simulations and experiences from realized projects in Sweden.

The use of computers for simulating building thermal behavior started early at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. The first example of…

Isfalt E
A tool for evaluating domestic ventilation systems' ability to provide an acceptable indoor air quality.

This paper is describing the first results of the Annex 27 work aiming at developing simplified tools for evaluating domestic ventilation systems by using…

Mansson L G, Millet J R, Villenave J G, Kronvall J
Maximum velocity of return flow close to the floor in a ventilated room - experimental and numerical results.

The problem of sensation of draught in ventilated spaces is connected to inappropriate velocities in the occupied zone. In Scandinavia, velocities higher…

Karimipanah M T, Sandberg M
Natural ventilation studies within the frame of PASCOOL project.

Natural ventilation studies were carried out within the frame of PASCOOL EC Research Project. Research on this topic included experimental and modelling…

Santamouris M, Dascalaki E, Allard F
Calculation methods for the determination of air flow rates in dwellings.

Ad Hoc Group 4 of Working Group 2 of CEN TC156 (Ventilation) was set up to put forward standardised techniques for estimating ventilation rates in dwellings…

Cripps A
The evolution of ventilation in manufactured housing in the Northwestern United States.

Electric utilities in the Pacific Northwest have spent over $100 million to support energy efficiency improvements in the HUD-code manufactured housing…

Stevens D, Lubliner M, Davis B
Full-scale measurements of indoor air flow.

Full scale measurements of air flow velocities, temperature, intensity of turbulence and air exchange rate are carried out on two rooms with different types…

Handa K, Pietrzyk K
Wind towers - old technology to solve a new problem.

Wind towers (scoops situated on the roofs of buildings to catch the wind) have been in use for centuries in the Middle east and Pakistan, to provide…

Harris D J, Webb R S
Probabilistic analysis of air infiltration in a single family house.

A Probabilistic model of air change rate in a single family house based on full-scale measurements has been developed. The probability of air change rate…

Pietrzyk K, Handa K
Evaluation of ventilation system in very low energy houses.

Since 1985 more than 170 very low energy houses, all of the same type and structure, were built in the Flemish Region, Belgium. Because conduction losses…

Pittomvils J, Hens H, van Bael F
Application of a passive tracer gas technique in naturally and mechanically ventilated school buildings.

The homogeneous emission passive tracer gas technique is described. This technique relies on an even distribution of constant tracer gas emission rate…

Stymne H, Boman C-A
System safety analysis on the performance of mechanical ventilation systems.

System safety of the performance of mechanical ventilation systems can of course be analysed by means of general methods for system safety analysis. Such…

Kronvall J
A technique to improve the performance of displacement ventilation during cold climate conditions.

Ventilation by displacement is a type of ventilation where the air flow is thermally driven. By this arrangement one obtains two zones in the room - a lower…

Hansson P, Stymne H
Developing tracer gas technique to determine interzonal air exchange rate.

The use of local exhaust is considered to be the most effective way to control pollutant dispersion from intense sources, such as in kitchens, in toilets,…

Niu J L, Burnett J, van der Kooi J, van der Ree H
Does the power law rule for low pressure building envelope leakage?

Although the power law has been broadly accepted in measurement and air infiltration standards, and in many air infiltration calculation methods, the…

Walker I S, Wilson D J, Sherman M H
Evaluation of a controlled natural ventilation system.

The project described in this paper has performed simulations using a multi-zone air flow model (4(COMIS)) of three different passive stack ventilation…

Carlsson T
Application of the tracer gas techniques for the assessment of ventilation indexes in real buildings.

The work presented in this paper is aimed at the definition of tracer gas experimental procedures for measuring the air change rate, the age of air and the…

Aleo F, Vitale S
Improve train tunnels. A dynamical ventilation model.

Train tunnels and subways are an interesting field of ventilation. Trains move air through tunnels at rates of 600 m³/s (over 2 x 10^6 m³ per hour) which is…

Phaff H J C, de Gids W F
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