2. Introduction to Ventilation.
Types Of Ventilation.
Methods Of Ventilation.
Air Conditioning.
OUTLINE
3. Ventilation
• The process of "changing” or
replacing air in any space to
provide high quality indoor air
• To:
Remove unpleasant smells and
moisture
Introduce outside air
Improve circulation, etc.
• In firefighting, refers to a tactic
of creating a draft to control the
release of heat and smoke
4. Reasons for Ventilation
To remove or control:
• Hazardous/obnoxious odors
• Smoke and smoke odor
• Odors
• Asbestos
• Chemicals
• Gases
• Fumes
• Particulates
Burned Popcorn-Ugh!
5. Types of Ventilation
• Vertical
Moving air up and out
• Horizontal (lateral)
Moving air out through
windows and doors
8. Natural Ventilation
Natural movement of air entering and leaving openings
such as windows, doors, roof ventilators as well as through
cracks and crevices of a building
Heated air rises, cool air below
10. How Air Moves
• Natural
+ No cost
- Difficulty controlling
- Increased time to utilize
• Mechanical/Forced
+ Easy to control direction
- Need power source
- Fumes
- Cost
13. Air conditioners
An air conditioner
Moves heat from cold room air to hot outside air
Moves heat against its natural flow
Must convert ordered energy into disordered energy
So as not to decrease the world’s total entropy!
Uses a “working fluid” (chlorofluorocarbons –freon-,
hydrofluorocarbons)to transfer heat
This fluid absorbs heat from cool room air
This fluid releases heat to warm outside air
15. Central Air conditioning
Circulate cool air through a system of supply and
return ducts. Supply ducts and registers (i.e.,
openings in the walls, floors, or ceilings covered
by grills) carry cooled air from the air conditioner
to the home.
This cooled air becomes warmer as it circulates
through the home; then it flows back to the
central air conditioner through return ducts and
registers