Re:A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection
by a9h74j on Friday May 14, 2021 @01:22PM
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People talk all the time about air changes per hour. Even a recent Nature.com article only discussed this metric. However, if you look at suppliers of heat recovery ventilation units, a different metric is liters/sec/person.
About 10 liter/sec/person seems to be pretty good for commercial spaces. For home environments people can adapt to smells a little better, so the requirements can be lower.
Also: heat recovery percentages don't always include the energy required for forced air movement through the exchanger.
Also: heat recovery percentages don't always include the energy required for forced air movement through the exchanger.