Improving Ventilation Efficiency for a Highly Energy Efficient Indoor Swimming Pool Using CFD Simulations
| Autor: | Jessica Grove-Smith, Gabriel Rojas |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
020209 energy
air exchange efficiency 02 engineering and technology lcsh:Thermodynamics 010501 environmental sciences Computational fluid dynamics 01 natural sciences law.invention Passive House Indoor air quality law lcsh:QC310.15-319 Thermal 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering lcsh:QC120-168.85 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes business.industry Turbulence Mechanical Engineering contaminant removal efficiency ventilation efficiency Condensed Matter Physics swimming pool Ventilation (architecture) Environmental science lcsh:Descriptive and experimental mechanics Facade Passive house business CFD Marine engineering Efficient energy use |
| Zdroj: | Fluids Volume 3 Issue 4 Fluids, Vol 3, Iss 4, p 92 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2311-5521 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/fluids3040092 |
| Popis: | The operation of a typical indoor swimming pool is very energy intensive. Previous studies have shown that high quality thermal building envelopes, i.e., with high levels of insulation and airtightness, make it possible to rethink conventional ventilation concepts. Due to the reduced condensation risk in and on envelopes of high thermal quality, ventilation design can be optimized for indoor air quality rather than for averting condensation on the facade. This work investigates different air distribution concepts for an existing swimming pool via computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations to evaluate their ventilation efficiency. To reduce modelling and computational resources, the velocity and turbulence fields produced by the swirl-diffusers are determined in a set of separate CFD simulations and incorporated into the swimming pool models. The results show that the ventilation efficiency in the examined swimming pool could potentially be improved with various alternative air distribution concepts, therefore improving the indoor air quality. Although the results seem plausible and compare well with the limited measurement data of air humidity, a more formal experimental validation is still needed before generalizing recommendations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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