A Comparative Study for Forced Ventilation Systems in Industrial Buildings to Improve the Workers’ Thermal Comfort
| Autor: | Abdullah Mossa Y. Alzahrani, Mohamed I. Elhadary, Reda M. H. Aly, Bahaa Elboshy |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
thermal comfort
medicine.medical_treatment Geography Planning and Development TJ807-830 Overheating (economics) Management Monitoring Policy and Law mechanical ventilation TD194-195 Renewable energy sources Automotive engineering law.invention law Water cooling medicine GE1-350 Roof Mechanical ventilation Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment industrial buildings Thermal comfort Energy consumption air quality Environmental sciences Ventilation (architecture) Factory (object-oriented programming) Environmental science CFD |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 18 Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 10267, p 10267 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su131810267 |
| Popis: | The appropriate ventilation for factory spaces with regard to volume flow rate and air velocity inside the factory is one of the most important factors in the improvement of the thermal comfort of workers and in the reduction of the percentage of pollution they are exposed to, which in turn helps to improve the work environment and increase productivity. It also could improve the performance of machines. Hence, overheating can cause various problems and malfunctions. In this study, three types of mechanical ventilation systems are compared: the wall fan extract ventilation system, the roof fan extract ventilation system, and the spot cooling system. The Ansys software has been used to conduct the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations for the different cases and the ventilation effectiveness factor (VEF) has been used to compare the performances of the three systems. The ventilation factor notably relies on the temperature distribution produced through the modeling and the results show that the most optimal system that can be used for similar factory spaces is the forced ventilation system. Finally, it is also the best in terms of energy consumption, despite the increase in the initial cost of its installation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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