A Review on Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioned Configurations for Hospitals to Evaluate the Comfortable Indoor Environment

Authors

  • Sharib Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Corporate Institute Of Science & Technology, Bhopal
  • Pankaj Shrivastava Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Corporate Institute Of Science &Technology, Bhopal
  • B. Suresh HOD Department of Mechanical Engineering Corporate Institute of Science and Technology Bhopal

Keywords:

HVAC, Indoor Environment, Humidity, Patient Room, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer Coefficient, etc

Abstract

As people stay indoors most of the time, how to operate the Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems as well as building facilities to reduce airborne infections have become hot research topics. This paper presents a systematic review on HVAC systems and the indoor environment. It reviews the research on the improvement of ventilation, heating and air-conditioning systems which is install in commercial building, hotels, hospitals etc. and various indoor environment improvement measures to minimize airborne spread, such as building envelope design, physical barriers and vent position arrangement.

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04-09-2023

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Sharib et al. 2023. A Review on Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioned Configurations for Hospitals to Evaluate the Comfortable Indoor Environment. International Journal of Innovations in Science, Engineering And Management. 2, 3 (Sep. 2023), 76–79.