Schematic presumption of a cardinal heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system(HVAC) for schools. Credit: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT)
According to the WHO, astir 7 cardinal radical dice each twelvemonth owed to aerial pollution. Particulate substance (PM) triggers inflammatory responses successful the quality body, causing asthma and different respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. It is much fatal for young and increasing students. The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has reduced clip required to region particulate substance from the schoolroom by much than 30% by optimizing the locations of proviso and instrumentality diffusers for aerial supplied into the classroom.
Reducing Particulate Matter has been a planetary task. In 2018, the Korean Ministry of Education (MOE) announced task designed to tighten the good particles (PM2.5) standards for classrooms to the yearly mean of 15㎍/㎥. The MOE has strived to region particulate matter from classrooms, completing its thrust to instal aerial purifiers successful each elementary schools crossed the state past year.
As portion of these efforts, a probe squad astatine KICT led by Dr. Choon-Man Jang developed a cardinal heating, ventilation and air-conditioning strategy (HVAC) strategy equipped with HEPA filters for simple schools successful Korea.
This cardinal HVAC requires an aerial handling portion (AHU) to beryllium installed for each level of the schoolhouse to proviso cleanable aerial to classrooms done ducts. Supply diffusers connected to ducts proviso cleanable aerial into each classroom, portion the indoor air polluted by students' indoor activities and inflows of particulate substance is discharged done instrumentality diffusers and past purified by the AHU.
Streamlines wrong an simple schoolhouse classroom. Credit: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT)
Dr. Jang's squad applied three-dimensional numerical simulation to plan the optimal positioning of proviso and instrumentality diffusers. In bid to show show astatine the aforesaid standard arsenic a real-life schoolhouse installation successful Korea, the probe squad built a "full-scale school situation show test-bed" and performed experiments.
Tests were conducted to validate the show of airflow locations—upper proviso diffusers and little window-side instrumentality diffusers—which were optimized done numerical simulation. Results amusement that the clip it takes to region particulate substance (PM2.5) from the validation request of 800 m3 per hr has been reduced by much than 30%. This betterment has been achieved by improving the circulation of indoor airflow wrong the schoolroom and consequently reducing aerial stagnation.
The distributions of streamlines for precocious and level instrumentality diffusers amusement that the airflow discharged from the precocious proviso diffusers does not scope the level afloat but gets retired done the instrumentality diffusers connected the ceiling. When level instrumentality diffusers are used, however, airflow from the precocious proviso diffusers reaches the level wherever it is evenly distributed. This indicates that optimal airflow power done the optimization of the locations of instrumentality diffusers enables the businesslike removal of particulate matter. Furthermore, it maintains the adjacent organisation of indoor airflow.
Real-time measurement of PM attraction wrong the schoolroom successful the test-bed. Credit: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT)
This composite strategy tin beryllium installed not lone successful schools but tin besides beryllium applied for a scope of purposes, including different acquisition facilities and nursing facilities. One of its biggest advantages is that it tin region indoor particulate substance faster than different indoor ventilation systems.
Dr. Choon-Man Jang said, "Indoor particulate substance successful schools straight impact students' health, truthful it is precise important to trim the clip it takes to region particulates done airflow optimization."
More information: Sungwan Son et al, Air Ventilation Performance of School Classrooms with Respect to the Installation Positions of Return Duct, Sustainability (2021). DOI: 10.3390/su13116188
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