Floor-supply displacement ventilation for workshops

This paper reported the investigation of the performance of floor-supply displacement ventilation with swirl diffusers or perforated panels under a high cooling load (nearly 90W/m(2)). The experiment was carried out in a full-scale environmental chamber to obtain reliable data on the floor-supply displacement ventilation for the validation of a computational-fluid-dynamics (CFD) program. Numerical simulations using CFD program were to evaluate the performance of the system for a large workshop. The impacts of several parameters, such as the air change rate, number of diffusers, diffuser location, occupant location, furniture arrangement, partition location, and arrangement of exhausts, on the indoor environment were investigated based on the thermal comfort level and indoor air quality. This study ranked the impacts of these parameters on indoor environment. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.