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The 31st AIVC Conference - Low Energy and Sustainable Ventilation Technologies for Green Buildings, was held in Seoul, Korea, 26-28 October 2010.

Contains 80 papers.

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Low Energy and Sustainable Ventilation Technologies for Green Buildings (Book of Proceedings)

The Proceedings of the 31st AIVC Conference " Low Energy and Sustainable Ventilation Technologies for Green Buildings", held in Seoul, Korea, 26-28…

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Air Leakage Tests for the requirements of the LEED in two high-rise residential buildings

Air leakage test was carried out according to ASTM E779-03, Standard Test Method for Determining Air Leakage Rate by Fan Pressurization to meet the…

Hyun Kook Shin, Hyun Cho, Kwan Woo Kim, Hoi Soo Seo, Jae Hun Jo
Study on the Feasibility of Heat Pump Desiccant System Combined with Cogeneration System in Heating and Humidification Mode

Recently, in order to reduce energy consumption in the building sector, many air-conditioning systems have been proposed and applied to real buildings. Of…

Beungyong Park, Sihwan Lee, Shinsuke Kato, Yujin Nam
PCM cold storage under various ventilation conditions

Cold storage is a way to deal with peak cooling loads. Cold storage integrated with building structures is independent of the approach used for building…

Pavel Charvat and Milan Ostry
Effective flow area estimation test using CO2

We developed a method for estimating effective flow areas not only in the external wall of a house but also in the internal walls between rooms using only…

Ken Iwamoto, Koji Fujita, and Takayuki Matsushita
Filtering technology for air purification in HVAC

This paper is mainly present the filtering technology for air purification in the process of ventilation and air conditioning. By the means of reviewing the…

Henggen Shen,Yiren WU
Evaluation on the Daylighting performance of ‘generative façade components’ In the digital simulation

The aim of this study is to find out a role of the computer simulation on sustainable design projects and development of façade elements with results of…

Hwang Yi
Analytical estimation of optimal minimum airflow for air circulation

Space conditions are directly controlled by terminal boxes in variable air volume (VAV) air handling unit (AHU) systems. The terminal box either modulates…

Jin-Hyeon Park, Choon-Dong Kim, Young-Hum Cho, Dong-Ho Choi, Jeong-Hoon Yang
Sensitivity Analysis of Parameters affecting Indoor Air Quality related to HCHO and TVOC Reduction

The objective of the study is to analyze the relative performance of factors affecting indoor air quality in multi-residential buildings in Korea. A study…

Mi Yeon Kim, Hae Jin Kang, Jin Chul Park, Eon Ku Rhee
Prediction of mass transfer rate on the surface of tested building material using CFD analysis

We developed an airflow control unit for small chambers for uniformly controlling airflow on the surface of tested building material in the small chambers.…

Janghoo Seo
A Study of Design principle and Technology performance applied in Passive House

Recently, the role of the architecture which is corresponding to climate change and saving energy has been important. This study drew factors about design…

Sung-Eun Shin , Soo-Am Kim , Yong-Sang Yoon, Sung-Ok Lee
Indoor Thermal Environment and Vertical Temperature Gradient in Large Workshop of School without air-conditioning

The purpose of this study is to figure out the characteristics of thermal environment in a workshop at school in Japan and to propose the improvement method…

Saori Yasui, Toshio Yamanaka, Kazunobu Sagara, Hisashi Kotani, Yoshihisa Momoi, and Junya Yamada
School Eco-Renovation Method for Improvement of Thermal Environment in Large Workshop of High School without Air-Conditioning System

In recent years school buildings, containing the workshop in high school, are old in Japan. Therefore most of them need renovating. Any air-conditioning…

Junya Yamada, Toshio Yamanaka, Kazunobu Sagara, Hisashi Kotani, Yoshihisa Momoi, and Saori Yasui
Evaluation on the Availability of Treated Sewage Water as an Unused Energy Source in a Super High-rise Complex Building

Because the super high-rise complex building would be designed vertically with a mixed-use space, a large amount of unpurified domestic sewage could be…

Jae-Han Lim, and Seung-Yeong Song
Field Survey on Indoor Thermal Environment in Small to Medium Sized Building with Packaged Air Conditioners

Recently, a lot of multiple packaged unit system is adopted in small to medium sized buildings in Japan. This system enables to control each packaged air…

Haruka Nakasone, Hisashi Kotani, Yoshihisa Momoi, Kazunobu Sagara and Toshio Yamanaka
Energy-saving Effect of Thermal Energy Storage Using Introduced Outdoor Air

Recently, buildings with thermal energy storage system have increased because of its economic advantage. In thermal energy storage system using introduced…

Yuka Asano, Masashi Yamagiwa, Kazunobu Sagara, Toshio Yamanaka, Hisashi Kotani, Yoshihisa Momoi, and Tomohiro Kobayashi
A Study on the Hybrid Air-conditioning system Coupled with Radiant Floor Cooling and Ventilation System

In this study, the concept of the Hybrid air-conditioning system utilizing convection and radiation heat exchange will be suggested. In this paper, the heat…

Jaehyung Park, Joowook Kim and Doosam Song
Thermostat/Hygrometer vs ANN-Based Predictive/Adaptive Environmental Control Strategies

This study tested the feasibility of employing artificial neural network (ANN)-based predictive and adaptive control logics to improve thermal comfort and…

Jin Woo Moon and Jae D. Chang
Investigation of the Usage of Ground Source Heat Pump System on Wall Heating

Wall heating systems are more preferable heating systems than other conventional systems due to their low temperature operating ranges. These systems are…

O. Kincay, U. Akbulut, Y. Yoru, O. Acikgoz, H. Karakoc
Simple error reduction in tracer-gas field-measurements of air handling units

Tracer gas measurements are an unparalleled means of measuring air recirculation, leakage, and air flow rates in air handling systems [1-5]. However, such…

Peter G. Schild
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