Occupancy-aided ventilation for airborne infection risk control: Continuously or intermittently reduced occupancies?

S Zhang, D Niu, Z Lin - Building Simulation, 2023 - Springer
Ventilation is an important engineering measure to control the airborne infection risk of acute
respiratory diseases, eg, Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Occupancy-aided …

Occupancy-aided ventilation for both airborne infection risk control and work productivity

S Zhang, Z Ai, Z Lin - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Reducing airborne infectious risk is crucial for controlling infectious respiratory diseases (eg,
COVID-19). The airborne transmissibility of COVID-19 is high so that the common ventilation …

An intelligent anti-infection ventilation strategy: From occupant-centric control and computer vision perspectives

H Wang, J Wang, Z Feng, F Haghighat, SJ Cao - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant-centric control of the environment carries outstanding significance in several
fields. Especially in the context of epidemics, occupant-centric environmental control can …

Exploring the potentials of personalized ventilation in mitigating airborne infection risk for two closely ranged occupants with different risk assessment models

W Liu, L Liu, C Xu, L Fu, Y Wang, PV Nielsen… - Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the context of COVID-19, new requirements are occurring in ventilation systems to
mitigate airborne transmission risk in indoor environment. Personalized ventilation (PV) …

Intermittent occupancy combined with ventilation: An efficient strategy for the reduction of airborne transmission indoors

AK Melikov, ZT Ai, DG Markov - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
It is important that efficient measures to reduce the airborne transmission of respiratory
infectious diseases (including COVID-19) should be formulated as soon as possible to …

Optimal control of high-rise building mechanical ventilation system for achieving low risk of COVID-19 transmission and ventilative cooling

H Sha, X Zhang, D Qi - Sustainable cities and society, 2021 - Elsevier
As suggested by many guidelines, a high ventilation rate is required to dilute the indoor virus
particles and reduce the airborne transmission risk, ie, dilution ventilation (DV). However …

Contaminant removal and contaminant dispersion of air distribution for overall and local airborne infection risk controls

S Zhang, D Niu, Y Lu, Z Lin - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Proper air distribution is crucial for airborne infection risk control of infectious respiratory
diseases like COVID-19. Existing studies evaluate and compare the performances of …

Ventilation strategies for mitigation of infection disease transmission in an indoor environment: a case study in office

C Ren, HC Zhu, SJ Cao - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
During the normalization phase of the COVID-19 epidemic, society has gradually reverted to
using building space, especially for public buildings, eg, offices. Prevention of airborne …

A novel CO2-based demand-controlled ventilation strategy to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the indoor environment

B Li, W Cai - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Ventilation is of critical importance to containing COVID-19 contagion in indoor
environments. Keeping the ventilation rate at high level is recommended by many …

Intelligent ventilation control in enclosed environment towards health and energy efficiency: A study of elevator cabins

J Wang, H Yu, N Fu, Z Feng, C Li - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Airborne transmission of respiratory infectious diseases has brought severe impacts to the
enclosed environment, eg, elevator cabins. According to statistics, there are over 2 billion …