Ceiling-mounted fresh air personalized ventilator system for occupant-controlled microenvironment

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 7, Issue PARTS A, B, C, D, 2012, Pages 1683-1693

  Makhoul, Alain ^a   Ghali, Kamel ^a   Ghaddar, Nesreen ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Air quality; Energy efficiency; Personalized ventilation; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY; CEILINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FLOW RATE; HEAT TRANSFER; NOZZLES; QUALITY CONTROL; THERMAL COMFORT; VENTILATION;

AIR STREAMS; BREATHING ZONES; CEILING-MOUNTED; CFD-MODEL; COAXIAL NOZZLES; FRESH AIR; MICROENVIRONMENTS; PERSONALIZED VENTILATION; RETURN AIRS; VENTILATOR SYSTEMS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84887271213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2012-87565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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