Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering (설비공학논문집)

The Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea (대한설비공학회)
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A Study on the Multizone Modeling for Preventing Transmission of Air Borne Contagion

실내 미생물오염 전파방지를 위한 멀티존 모델링에 관한 연구

  • Choi, Sang-Gon (Department of Building Equipment & System Eng., Graduate School of Kyungwon Univ.) ;
  • Lee, Hyun-Woo (Department of Building Equipment & System Eng., Graduate School of Kyungwon Univ.) ;
  • Hong, Jin-Kwan (Department of Building Equipment & System Eng., Kyungwon Univ.)
  • Published : 2006.11.10
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Abstract

In this study multi-zone modeling program CONTAM 2.4 developed by NIST is used for estimating the air disinfection rate of the interior of a room which is set up the indoor air disinfection system with filter and ultra violet germicidal irradiation (UVGI). Developed models those enable to predict the transmission of air home contagion such as bacteria and fungus generated in our daily life are useful model for designning air cleaning & ventilation system of building. Also, results indicate that these models are enable to compute the real situation that is almost impossible of carrying out experiment in an actual condition due to biohazard problems and suggest that engineers will use these models as a design tool for the future immune building system.

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