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VENTILATION SHAFT TO INCREASE EFFECTIVENESS OF NATURAL
VENTILATION
by
Abhay Nagory
________________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE
August 2012
Copyright 2012 Abhay Nagory
Object Description
| Title | Ventilation shaft to increase effectiveness of natural ventilation |
| Author | Nagory, Abhay |
| Author email | abhaynagory@gmail.com;nagory@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Building Science |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Building Science |
| School | School of Architecture |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-03-19 |
| Date submitted | 2012-07-31 |
| Date approved | 2012-07-31 |
| Restricted until | 2012-07-31 |
| Date published | 2012-07-31 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Woll, Edward |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Simmonds, Peter Roche, Pablo La |
| Abstract | Ventilation shafts can aid natural ventilation in buildings. Natural ventilation provides ventilation for occupants that can provide thermal comfort conditions. This study attempts to increase air flow rates, which can provide thermal comfort conditions, in occupant spaces of a low rise commercial building by using a ventilation shaft. While doing so the time period of effective natural ventilation also increases. This is achieved by optimizing the occupant zone and ventilation shaft design to maximize the air flow inside them. This design optimization is achieved by identifying the range of influence building and ventilation shaft components of height and openings have on both types of buoyancy and wind driven air flow. ❧ A comparison of air flow rate and thermal comfort conditions achieved by the airflow on different models having different ventilation shaft designs are performed to verify the potential of a ventilation shaft in increasing effectiveness of naturally induced airflow. Multi zone airflow and contaminant Transport analysis (CONTAM) software by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is used to perform all the calculations. |
| Keyword | natural ventilation; ventilation shaft; effectiveness of natural ventilation |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Nagory, Abhay |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-NagoryAbha-1086.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | VENTILATION SHAFT TO INCREASE EFFECTIVENESS OF NATURAL VENTILATION by Abhay Nagory ________________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE August 2012 Copyright 2012 Abhay Nagory |
