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A Study of the Plan and Performance Evaluation Method of an 8-m 3 Chamber Using Ventilation Experiments and Numerical Analyses

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  • Seonghyun Park

    (Department of Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Kookmin University, 77, Jeongneung-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02707, Korea)

  • Seongwoo Park

    (Department of Architecture, Graduated School, Kookmin University, 77, Jeongneung-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02707, Korea)

  • Janghoo Seo

    (School of Architecture, Kookmin University, 77, Jeongneung-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02707, Korea)

Abstract

With increases in the time spent on indoor activities, the interests and technological demands regarding indoor air quality (IAQ) have also increased. Indoor air pollution is often caused by furniture or construction materials and chemical substances, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs). As a way to remove such pollutants, efforts have been made to promote the management of indoor air quality through emission experiments. To conduct an experiment, such as the pollutant emission experiment involving substances harmful to the human body, a chamber to control various factors should be developed. By using such chambers, experimental variables can be minimized, quantitative analyses may be conducted, and the basic theory may be discussed. When the chamber is installed, it is not easy to change the existing installed conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to review feasibility with an accurate design. However, there is limited research on both how to quantitatively design the chamber and evaluate it. Therefore, this study investigates suitable chamber design methods and performance through ventilation performance evaluation to discuss potential development methods. In the chamber design step, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was performed to estimate the ventilation efficiency according to the inlet and outlet positions to develop an 8-m 3 chamber. Next, a ventilation experiment was performed using the tracer gas method for the performance evaluation, while the chamber interior airflow was simulated based on the CFD analysis. In a ventilation experiment using a tracer gas, the variation in gas density leads to concentration imbalance; as a result of concentration imbalance at each point, errors may occur in ventilation efficiency depending on the measurement point, causing the accuracy of the performance evaluation to fall. An attempt was made to resolve this problem by performing the ventilation experiment with a ceiling fan. The result indicated that the performance evaluation could be conducted without altering ventilation efficiency, coinciding with the CFD analysis result. Furthermore, when the concentration field was examined according to time in the CFD analysis, uniform concentration of chamber interior air allowed the ventilation efficiency to be calculated irrespective of the measurement point. Based on the findings, this study suggests a quantitative method of performance evaluation with an experiment in an 8-m 3 chamber and a concurrent CFD analysis.

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  • Seonghyun Park & Seongwoo Park & Janghoo Seo, 2022. "A Study of the Plan and Performance Evaluation Method of an 8-m 3 Chamber Using Ventilation Experiments and Numerical Analyses," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(20), pages 1-17, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:20:p:13556-:d:947317
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    1. Stuart Batterman, 2017. "Review and Extension of CO 2 -Based Methods to Determine Ventilation Rates with Application to School Classrooms," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(2), pages 1-22, February.
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