The Design and Simulation of Natural Personalised Ventilation (NPV) System for Multi-Bed Hospital Wards

Adequate ventilation is necessary for thermal comfort and reducing risks from infectious bio-aerosols in hospital wards, but achieving this with mechanical ventilation has carbon and energy implications. Natural ventilation is often limited to window-based designs whose dilution/mixing effectiveness...

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Main Authors: Zulfikar A. Adamu, Andrew Price
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-05-01
Series:Buildings
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/5/2/381