Exploració per tema "Indoor air quality"

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    • A complete analysis of the heat, air and moisture transfer on building performance 

      Souaihi, Oussama; Lopez, Joan; Capdevila Paramio, Roser; Rigola Serrano, Joaquim; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2016)
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      The simulation of combined heat, air and moisture (HAM) is important to predict the indoor air quality and thermal comfort. Moreover, inappropriate levels of indoor humidity and temperature can contribute to a high movement ...

    • A comprehensive assessment of indoor air quality and thermal comfort in educational buildings in the Mediterranean climate 

      Miao, Sen; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Tejedor Herrán, Blanca (2023-11-17)
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      Maintaining good indoor air quality and thermal comfort is a challenge for naturally ventilated educational buildings, as it can be difficult to achieve both aspects simultaneously. Nonetheless, most of the existing studies ...

    • Analysis of IAQ based on modeling of building envelope coupled with CFD&HT room airflow 

      Capdevila Paramio, Roser; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Rigola Serrano, Joaquim; López Mas, Joan; Oliva Llena, Asensio (Purdue University, 2014)
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      Buildings represent a major part of the world energy requirement. The simulation of combined heat, air and moisture (HAM) and pollutant transfer in this context is important to predict the indoor air quality (IAQ), along ...

    • Architecture for determining the cleanliness in shared vehicles using an integrated machine vision and indoor air quality-monitoring system 

      Jayawickrama, Nilusha; Perarnau Ollé, Enric; Pirhonen, Jesse; Ojala, Risto; Kivekäs, Klaus; Vepsäläinen, Jari; Tammi, Kari (Springer Nature, 2023-02-02)
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      In an attempt to mitigate emissions and road traffic, a significant interest has been recently noted in expanding the use of shared vehicles to replace private modes of transport. However, one outstanding issue has been ...

    • Data-driven model for predicting indoor air quality and thermal comfort levels in naturally ventilated educational buildings using easily accessible data for schools 

      Miao, Sen; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Tejedor Herrán, Blanca (Elsevier, 2023-12)
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      Modeling indoor air quality and thermal conditions in educational buildings is significant for protecting students' health, well-being, and productivity. The predictive models in existing studies were mainly built and ...

    • Digital tool for indoor air pollutants simulation in industrial workplaces 

      Cebolla Alemany, Joaquim; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Viana Rodríguez, Mar; Gassó Domingo, Santiago; López Carreño, Rubén-Daniel (Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO), 2023)
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      Nanoparticles (NP), aerosols under 100 nm of nominal diameter, might be responsible of multiple diseases (cardiovascular, nervous, respiratory, cancer, etc.) in mid- and long-term exposed workers in industrial layouts. ...

    • Energy simulation of a single family dwelling as a test bench for climate control system assessment 

      Capdevila Paramio, Roser; Souaihi, Oussama; Lopez, Joan; Rigola Serrano, Joaquim; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2016)
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      In the present work a real dwelling (a semi-detached house in the Netherlands) has been modelled with an in-house modular object-oriented building simulation tool, called NEST-Buildings. This software models the whole ...

    • Estimation of a room ventilation air change rate using a stochastic grey-box modelling approach 

      Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Giretti, Alberto (2018-08)
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      The measurement of ventilation air change rate is a difficult, expensive task in buildings. Usually, the tracer-gas mass balance equation is used to determine ventilation air change rates. This method uses an ordinary ...

    • Experimental evaluation of VOC removal efficiency od a coconut shell activated carbon filter for indoor air quality enhancement 

      Gallego Piñol, Eva; Roca Mussons, Francisco Javier; Perales Lorente, José Francisco; Guardino Solà, Xavier (2013-05-28)
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      The present study evaluated the performance of a commercially available activated carbon filter for VOC removal from air through the analysis of real samples. The filter was tested for VOC reduction efficiencies in a PVC ...

    • Inter-comparison of commercial continuous radon monitors responses 

      Radulescu, Ileana; Calin, M. R.; Luca, A.; Röttger, Annette; Grossi, Claudia; Done, Laurentiu; Ioan, M. R. (2022-01)
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      Indoor and outdoor (atmospheric) radon activity concentrations need to be measured as accurate as possible for radiation protection and for climate applications. Particularly radon concentrations below 100 Bq m -3, useful ...

    • Modelling indoor air carbon dioxide concentration using grey-box models 

      Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Carnevali, Matteo; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta (2017-05)
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      Predictive control is the strategy that has the greatest reported benefits when it is implemented in a building energy management system. Predictive control requires low-order models to assess different scenarios and ...

    • Modelling indoor air quality in schools using grey box models 

      Tugores Garcias, Juan; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel (European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3), 2023)
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      Current indoor air quality strategies are based on the measurement and control of carbon dioxide (CO2) indoor concentration. Most educational buildings rely only on natural ventilation, making indoor air quality highly ...

    • Reducing the indoor odorous charge in waste treatment facilities 

      Gallego Piñol, Eva; Roca Mussons, Francisco Javier; Perales Lorente, José Francisco (2014-02-19)
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      Characterising and determining the odorous charge of indoor air through Odour Units (OU) is an advantageous approach to evaluate indoor air quality and discomfort inside municipal solid waste facilities. The assessment ...

    • Thermal assessment of a ventilated double skin façade component with a set of air filtering photocatalytic slats in the cavity 

      Roig Mayoral, Oriol; Cuerva Contreras, Eva; Pardal March, Cristina; Guardo Zabaleta, Alfredo de Jesús; Isalgué Buxeda, Antonio; López Besora, Judit (2023-01-17)
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      Indoor air quality is a crucial factor when evaluating habitability, especially in developed countries, where people spend most of their time indoors. This paper presents a novel double skin façade (DSF) system that combines ...

    • Use of Grey-Box Modeling to Determine the Air Ventilation Flows in a Room 

      Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta (Springer, 2021)
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      To determine the air ventilation flows in a room deterministic approaches based on the CO2 tracer-gas mass balance equation are usually used. Those equations do not enable to introduce to the system uncertainties such as ...