The Centre is engaged in the development and optimization of personalized ventilation solutions, an approach that improves the air quality in the breathing zone of the occupants. This has great potential for reducing the overall outside air supply rate while improving occupant comfort, health and productivity.
Initial studies on a prototype of a system showed very promising results. New, more efficient designs of systems for providing occupants with personalized air will be developed, based on both physical experiments and the most advanced measuring equipment (breathing thermal manikins, Particle Image Velocimetry, Laser Doppler Anemometry, etc.) and human subject experiments.
An important aim of this research is the development and evaluation of strategies for coupling the personalized ventilation systems with total volume systems that will ensure the quality of the background indoor environment and minimize airborne transmission of infectious agents between occupants both in buildings and vehicle compartments.
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Related results published on the Centre's website
Development of a method for indoor air quality assessment by a breathing thermal manikin
Thermal manikin for CFD simulations
Development and evaluation of air terminal devices for personalized ventilation
