LAPSE:2023.20080
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LAPSE:2023.20080
Natural Ventilation of Toilet Units in K−12 School Restrooms Using CFD
Yi-Pin Lin
March 10, 2023
In this study, the influence of architectural design parameters (the exterior window area, the wall height at a corridor-side, and the door gap of a toilet unit) on the airflow patterns and malodorous volatile substance (acetic acid) distributions within toilet units were investigated via computational fluid dynamics (CFD), with the restrooms in K−12 public schools (kindergarten through grade 12) of Taiwan as research objects. The results show that when there is a 2 m/s north wind in winter, all the cases exceed the required 12 air changes per hour (ACH), and most are above 43.75 ACH. When there is a 0.5 m/s south wind in summer, nearly half of the cases fail to reach 12 ACH. Maintaining an adequate natural ventilation rate and an acceptable level of odor pollution through passive design and architectural design is difficult. Thinking about how to improve the ventilation efficiency of toilet units with the aid of simple, appropriate, and energy-saving mechanical ventilation approaches is necessary.
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Computational Fluid Dynamics, natural ventilation, school restroom, toilet, ventilation
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Lin YP. Natural Ventilation of Toilet Units in K−12 School Restrooms Using CFD. (2023). LAPSE:2023.20080
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Lin YP: Department of Creative Design, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin 64002, Taiwan
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Energies
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14
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16
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4792
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2021
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2021-08-06
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1996-1073
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