Variable ventilation control systems: saving energy and maintaining indoor air quality

Conference · Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1979

OSTI ID:6163288

Turiel, I; Hollowell, C D; Thurston, B E

Mechanical ventilation systems usually provide a fixed quantity of fresh air to a building space based upon the maximum number of people expected to occupy that particular space. When the use of a building space is below its design maximum, the amount of outside air brought into that space can be reduced, thus generally also reducing energy consumption through lower heating and cooling loads. One method of determining the necessary ventilation rate for a particular space is to utilize an air quality detector (e.g., CO/sub 2/ or O/sub 2/) sensitive to building occupancy and activity load. The output of this detector can in turn be used to control ventilation rates.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Berkeley (USA). Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6163288
• Report Number(s): LBL-9380; CONF-791009-5
• Resource Relation: Conference: International conference on energy use management, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 22 Oct 1979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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