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Assessment methods to assess smart ventilation, in most countries focus only on comfort as criteria for the indoor air quality (IAQ) (Guyot et al., 2019). This is an issue as in doing so, pollutants that are known to cause harm to the human health are not taken into consideration while the exposure to VOCs will be elevated if the smart ventilation system lowers the ventilation flowrates to save energy (De Jonge & Laverge, 2021). This research addresses the question of what the impact of changing family sizes would be on the individual exposure to unhealthy pollutants for a smart ventilation system that only uses comfort related parameters to control the ventilation system. By introducing sources of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) into a Modelica building energy and IAQ model of a typical Belgian apartment the occupant-dependent (CO2 and RH) smart ventilation can be assessed for non-occupant dependent pollutants (VOCs). For three given smart ventilation systems, ten different households, with varying sizes and occupants are simulated. The results show that the presence of other family members influences the exposure to VOCs of an individual. One of the three smart ventilation syst

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Author

Klaas De Jonge; Janneke Ghijsels; Jelle Laverge

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)