title: Determining the ventilation and aerosol deposition rates from routine indoor-air measurements.
abstract: Measurement of air exchange rate provides critical information in energy and indoor-air quality studies. Continuous measurement of ventilation rates is a rather costly exercise and requires specific instrumentation. In this work, an alternative methodology is proposed and tested, where the air exchange rate is calculated by utilizing indoor and outdoor routine measurements of a common pollutant such as SO2, whereas the uncertainties induced in the calculations are analytically determined. The application of this methodology is demonstrated, for three residential microenvironments in Athens, Greece, and the results are also compared against ventilation rates calculated from differential pressure measurements. The calculated time resolved ventilation rates were applied to the mass balance equation to estimate the particle loss rate which was found to agree with literature values at an average of 0.50 h(-1). The proposed method was further evaluated by applying a mass balance numerical model for the calculation of the indoor aerosol number concentrations, using the previously calculated ventilation rate, the outdoor measured number concentrations and the particle loss rates as input values. The model results for the indoors' concentrations were found to be compared well with the experimentally measured values.
authors.affiliation: Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, P.O. Box 243, RG6 6BB, Reading, UK.
authors.forename: Christos H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Halios
authors.forename: Costas G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Helmis
authors.forename: Katerina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Deligianni
authors.forename: Sterios
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vratolis
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Eleftheriadis
mesh_terms: D000336:Aerosols / Q000032:analysis*; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000032:analysis* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006115:Greece; D014691:Ventilation
chemical_list: D000336:Aerosols; D000393:Air Pollutants
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