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A Study on the Diffusion and Removal of Airborne Microorganism Pollution in Multistoried Apartment by the Multi-Zone Simulation  

Hong, Jin-Kwan (Department of Building Equipment & System Eng., Kyungwon University)
Choi, Sang-Gon (Department of Building Services, Yuhan College)
Publication Information
Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.19, no.4, 2007 , pp. 291-298 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of multizone simulation that enables to grasp of details about microbial contaminant problem in an multistoried apartment. We used actual indoor test data to figure up microbial contaminant level as initial value for the multizone simulation and estimated the various effects of indoor occupant infected with germs such as bacteria and fungus and the performance of air sterilization by using multizone simulation in substitute for infeasible experimental approach. The results show that natural ventilation make ourselves generally useful for removing indoor microbial contaminants. The results also show that the performance of air sterilization reach the maximum in the case of using mechanical ventilation and UVGI air sterilizer. The conclusion is that this multizone simulation is useful tool for actual design method for immune building systems.
Keywords
Bacteria; Fungus; Immune building; Multizone simulation; Multistoried apartment; UVGI;
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