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A Study on the Multizone Modeling for Preventing Transmission of Air Borne Contagion  

Choi, Sang-Gon (Department of Building Equipment & System Eng., Graduate School of Kyungwon Univ.)
Lee, Hyun-Woo (Department of Building Equipment & System Eng., Graduate School of Kyungwon Univ.)
Hong, Jin-Kwan (Department of Building Equipment & System Eng., Kyungwon Univ.)
Publication Information
Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.18, no.11, 2006 , pp. 933-940 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study multi-zone modeling program CONTAM 2.4 developed by NIST is used for estimating the air disinfection rate of the interior of a room which is set up the indoor air disinfection system with filter and ultra violet germicidal irradiation (UVGI). Developed models those enable to predict the transmission of air home contagion such as bacteria and fungus generated in our daily life are useful model for designning air cleaning & ventilation system of building. Also, results indicate that these models are enable to compute the real situation that is almost impossible of carrying out experiment in an actual condition due to biohazard problems and suggest that engineers will use these models as a design tool for the future immune building system.
Keywords
Air home contagion; Air sterilizer performance; Bacteria; Fungus; Immune building; Multizone modeling; UVGI;
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