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Research Article

An evaluation index for the control effect of the local ventilation systems on indoor air quality in industrial buildings

Yi Wang1( ), Yingxue Cao1, Bo Liu1, Jiaping Liu1, Yang Yang1, Qun Yu1,2
School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, No. 13 Yanta RD., Xi'an, Shaanxi 710055, China
Shaanxi Architectural Design and Research Institute, China
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Abstract

To evaluate the control effect on indoor air quality (IAQ) of the local ventilation systems in industrial buildings with centralized contaminant sources, a new index, namely, normalized concentration in the target zone (NC-TZ), was proposed in this paper. According to theoretical analysis, NC-TZ is non-dimensional and ranges from 0 to 1. When NC-TZ tends toward 0, the control effect of the local ventilation system on IAQ is more satisfactory. When NC-TZ tends toward 1, the control effect on IAQ is less satisfactory. The numerical simulation on a push-pull ventilation system with varying exhaust flow rates and varying distances between push and pull hoods was performed. The results demonstrate that for the same capture efficiency, changing the local ventilation system characteristics can change the control effect on the local environment. The results for obstacles at different positions also indicate that NC-TZ can clearly reflect the control effect on IAQ of the local ventilation systems in industrial buildings.

Keywords

computational fluid dynamics (CFD)indoor air quality (IAQ)evaluation indexlocal ventilation systemcontaminant concentration distribution

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Building Simulation
Volume 9 Issue 6,
December 2016
Pages 669-676
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-016-0295-2
Cite this article:
Wang Y, Cao Y, Liu B, et al. An evaluation index for the control effect of the local ventilation systems on indoor air quality in industrial buildings. Building Simulation, 2016, 9(6): 669-676. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-016-0295-2

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Received: 05 January 2016
Revised: 12 April 2016
Accepted: 18 April 2016
Published: 04 May 2016
© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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