Modular intelligent ventilator platform for new and existing residential building ventilation
- PD3 Technologies, Business Development Manager
- PD3 Technologies, Lead Engineer
- PD3 Technologies, CEO / PI
Indoor air quality is a major area of concern for homeowners and renters. It has become widely recognized that indoor air pollutants play a role equally important to outdoor air pollution on human health, due to the ever-extending time that we spend indoors. Inadequate ventilation has been identified as being strongly correlated with both human illness and human mental cognitive abilities in a variety of settings. The goal of this project was to develop, prototype, and perform initial testing on an intelligent ductless residential ventilator capable of addressing the need for effective ventilation in many residential applications. Scale adoption of intelligent ventilation solutions offer the opportunity to improve health, increase efficiency, reduce primary building energy use, and drastically improve overall performance through sensor adoption and learned functionality. A modular ventilation system coupled with advancements in low-cost sensing could function to improve IAQ as well as measure and predict it. PD3 Technologies has successfully executed the planned Phase I scope of work within the allocated budget and schedule and laid the foundation for a successful continuation of the development through a Phase II program. The following is a summary of the main accomplishments of Phase I: • Designed an improved prototype ventilator through rapid design iterations and 3D printing and built 5 prototypes to support demonstrations and tests. • Developed detailed budgets for cost and power performance. • Developed a methodology to analyze the sensible performance (supply air temperature and sensible effectiveness) of the energy recovery ventilator core as a function of design parameters and analyzed the baseline core design. • Selected an Internet of Things (IoT) development platform for the IV50 software and used it to demonstrate functionality of the embedded software in support of performance testing. • Developed the algorithms for sensor-driven decision-making in the embedded IV50 software. • Developed a special-purpose test facility to measure ventilation performance in a controlled environment and completed initial performance testing. The results have shown the concept is feasible and able to achieve the goals of providing automated ventilation for healthy indoor air quality with high energy efficiency, for new and retrofit residential spaces at all income levels and climate conditions. Based on feedback from stakeholders including industry experts and potential customers, we believe the commercial potential envisioned at the outset is achievable, and that completion of a commercial product for market entry at the conclusion of a Phase II program is very achievable.
- Research Organization:
- PD3 Technologies, Inc.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC-1)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0021858
- OSTI ID:
- 1875379
- Type / Phase:
- SBIR (Phase I)
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-PD3-21858
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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