51. A sensitivity study of parameters in the Nazaroff-Cass IAQ model with respect to indoor concentrations of O3, NO, NO2
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Ziomas, I., Zerefos, C., and Drakou, G.
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MODELING (Sculpture) ,NITROGEN dioxide ,INDOOR air pollution - Abstract
The indoor O
3 , NO, NO2 concentrations and their corresponding indoor/outdoor (I/O) concentration ratios are predicted in this paper for some representative buildings, using the Nazaroff-Cass indoor air quality model. This paper presents and systemizes the relationship between indoor air pollutant concentrations and the buildings design, use and operation. The building parameters which aredetermined to be main factors affecting the air pollutant concentrations are: the physical dimensions of the building and the materials of construction, the building's air exchange rate with outdoors and the indoor air pollutant sources. Changes of ultraviolet photon fluxes,of temperature and of relative humidity indoors, have little effect on indoor O3 , NO and NO2 concentrations, for air exchange rates above 0.5 ach. Special attention must be given when a building has a very low air exchange rate, under which conditions the effect of a small change in any of the factors determining the indoor air quality of the building will be much more noticeable than in a building with a high air exchange rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2000