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Performance evaluation of ductless personalized ventilation in comparison with desk fans using numerical simulations
Author(s) -
Alsaad Hayder,
Voelker Conrad
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indoor air
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.387
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1600-0668
pISSN - 0905-6947
DOI - 10.1111/ina.12672
Subject(s) - desk , computational fluid dynamics , thermal comfort , ventilation (architecture) , environmental science , contamination , indoor air quality , indoor air , thermal , simulation , computer science , marine engineering , automotive engineering , engineering , environmental engineering , mechanical engineering , aerospace engineering , meteorology , physics , ecology , biology
Abstract The performance of ductless personalized ventilation (DPV) was compared to the performance of a typical desk fan since they are both stand‐alone systems that allow the users to personalize their indoor environment. The two systems were evaluated using a validated computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of an office room occupied by two users. To investigate the impact of DPV and the fan on the inhaled air quality, two types of contamination sources were modeled in the domain: an active source and a passive source. Additionally, the influence of the compared systems on thermal comfort was assessed using the coupling of CFD with the comfort model developed by the University of California, Berkeley (UCB model). Results indicated that DPV performed generally better than the desk fan. It provided better thermal comfort and showed a superior performance in removing the exhaled contaminants. However, the desk fan performed better in removing the contaminants emitted from a passive source near the floor level. This indicates that the performance of DPV and desk fans depends highly on the location of the contamination source. Moreover, the simulations showed that both systems increased the spread of exhaled contamination when used by the source occupant.