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Field Monitoring of the Natural Ventilation Rate of Residential Buildings in Beijing

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Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC 2019) (ISHVAC 2019)

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Abstract

Determining ventilation rates is helpful to study indoor air quality (IAQ). This paper investigated the natural ventilation of three households in Beijing, using exhaled CO2 as the tracer gas to calculate and determine the ventilation rates. Also it considered ventilation conditions in different seasons, in different outdoor air quality, and in different outdoor temperatures. The results show that there are seasonal differences in window opening behavior, and outdoor temperature has a more significant effect on window opening behavior than that outdoor air quality. The data obtained in this study and its analysis is thought useful as a reference source for other studies of energy-saving ventilation systems.

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Acknowledgements

The research was supported financially by the National Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, China, on Green Buildings and Building Industrialization under Grant No. 2016YFC0700501.

Ethical approval All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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  1. College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China

    Rong Sun, Yiwen Jian & Xu Wang

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Built Environment and Energy Efficient Technology, Beijing, 100124, China

    Yiwen Jian

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  1. Department of Building Thermal Engineering, School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

    Zhaojun Wang

  2. Department of Building Science, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Yingxin Zhu

  3. Department of Building Thermal Engineering, School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

    Fang Wang

  4. Department of Building Thermal Engineering, School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

    Peng Wang

  5. Department of Building Thermal Engineering, School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

    Chao Shen

  6. Department of Building Thermal Engineering, School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

    Jing Liu

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Sun, R., Jian, Y., Wang, X. (2020). Field Monitoring of the Natural Ventilation Rate of Residential Buildings in Beijing. In: Wang, Z., Zhu, Y., Wang, F., Wang, P., Shen, C., Liu, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC 2019). ISHVAC 2019. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9520-8_130

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