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Application of the Chimney Cap as a Method of Improving the Effectiveness of Natural Ventilation in Buildings
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Adequately designed natural ventilation is the cheapest and easiest way to effectively remove indoor pollutants and keep the air inside a building fresh. A prediction of the performance and effectiveness of ventilation in order to determine the design of a ventilation system can provide real and long-term cost savings. The worst time in terms of the efficiency of natural ventilation is the spring-autumn transition period [7]. In order to improve the efficiency of natural ventilation, chimney caps are used, among others. They are designed to improve the chimney effect described in colloquial language as a chimney draft. The chimney effect is a physical phenomenon of the formation of a spontaneous flow of a warmer gas, e.g. air, from the bottom up in stem channels [12]. The article analyses the influence of the chimney cowl on the improvement of the chimney effect in an apartment of a multi-family building with natural ventilation. Long-term tests of the chimney draft were carried out for the case without and with a chimney cap. The paper presents the results of the performance (air change rate, ACH) of natural ventilation for a building with an inlet gap measured for the transitional season (between the heating and the summer season). The measurements were performed during a windy period.
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach
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Polish Maritime Research
no. 27,
pages 168 - 175,
ISSN: 1233-2585 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Bibliographic description:
- Antczak-Jarząbska R., Niedostatkiewicz M.: Application of the Chimney Cap as a Method of Improving the Effectiveness of Natural Ventilation in Buildings// Polish Maritime Research -Vol. 27,iss. 3 (107) (2020), s.168-175
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.2478/pomr-2020-0058
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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