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Cooking generated particles’ impact on indoor air quality of university cafeteria

Show Author's Information Kang Zhao,  Xin Zhou,  Bin Zhao( )
Department of Building Science, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 10084, China
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simulation, ventilation, indoor air quality (IAQ), particulate matter (PM), university cafeteria
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Zhao K, Zhou X, Zhao B. Cooking generated particles’ impact on indoor air quality of university cafeteria. Building Simulation, 2010, 3(1): 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-010-0305-8
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University cafeteria is a kind of building with unique characteristics: there are lots of people dining besides the large cooking area. It is of great importance to study the impact of the cooking generated contaminants on the indoor air quality in the cafeteria since cooking is regarded as the main source of indoor contaminants. This study presents the particulate matter (PM) concentrations measured in three different university cafeterias followed by a series of cases studied with CFD and multizone model simulation. Based on the results, the possible strategies to tackle the indoor air quality (IAQ) problem due to cooking are discussed. It is concluded that using up exhaust, setting up partition between cooking area with other zones and adding scuttles are helpful to reduce the cooking generated particle pollution in the cafeterias.


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Cooking generated particles’ impact on indoor air quality of university cafeteria

Show Author's information Kang Zhao, Xin Zhou, Bin Zhao( )
Department of Building Science, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 10084, China

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University cafeteria is a kind of building with unique characteristics: there are lots of people dining besides the large cooking area. It is of great importance to study the impact of the cooking generated contaminants on the indoor air quality in the cafeteria since cooking is regarded as the main source of indoor contaminants. This study presents the particulate matter (PM) concentrations measured in three different university cafeterias followed by a series of cases studied with CFD and multizone model simulation. Based on the results, the possible strategies to tackle the indoor air quality (IAQ) problem due to cooking are discussed. It is concluded that using up exhaust, setting up partition between cooking area with other zones and adding scuttles are helpful to reduce the cooking generated particle pollution in the cafeterias.

Keywords: simulation, ventilation, indoor air quality (IAQ), particulate matter (PM), university cafeteria

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Received: 29 September 2009
Revised: 04 December 2009
Accepted: 21 December 2009
Published: 05 March 2010
Issue date: March 2010

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© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

Acknowledgements

This work was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50908127) and was partly supported by the Student Research Training (SRT) project of Tsinghua University, China (No. 091T0002).

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