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    Air Change Rates

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    (1) The document discusses air change rates in buildings and rooms. It provides an example calculation of air changes per hour (ACR) for a sample room and explains how ACR is calculated. (2) Tables are then presented listing common minimum and maximum ACR for various building and room types such as offices, schools, restaurants, factories, and more. (3) Factors like building construction efficiency and HVAC system operation hours impact actual ACR.

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    (1) The document discusses air change rates in buildings and rooms. It provides an example calculation of air changes per hour (ACR) for a sample room and explains how ACR is calculated. (2) Tables are then presented listing common minimum and maximum ACR for various building and room types such as offices, schools, restaurants, factories, and more. (3) Factors like building construction efficiency and HVAC system operation hours impact actual ACR.

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    (1) The document discusses air change rates in buildings and rooms. It provides an example calculation of air changes per hour (ACR) for a sample room and explains how ACR is calculated. (2) Tables are then presented listing common minimum and maximum ACR for various building and room types such as offices, schools, restaurants, factories, and more. (3) Factors like building construction efficiency and HVAC system operation hours impact actual ACR.

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    Air Change Rates

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    Erick Quinto
    (1) The document discusses air change rates in buildings and rooms. It provides an example calculation of air changes per hour (ACR) for a sample room and explains how ACR is calculated. (2) Tables are then presented listing common minimum and maximum ACR for various building and room types such as offices, schools, restaurants, factories, and more. (3) Factors like building construction efficiency and HVAC system operation hours impact actual ACR.

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    The document discusses how to calculate air change rates per hour based on room volume and air flow. It also provides tables listing common air change rates for different types of buildings and rooms.

    The tables on pages 1-3 list air change rates ranging from 2-30 air changes per hour for spaces like offices, schools, restaurants, factories, hospitals and more.

    The demand for ventilation and required air changes per hour in a building depends on factors like construction efficiency, heat load requirements, and environmental characteristics such as shade, glass usage, and direction of exposure.

    Air Change Rates

    Room
    CFM

    Volume

    CFM

    Air change rate per hour can be expressed as; ACR = 60 x CFM / V Where; ACR = air change rate per hour CFM = air flow through the room (Cubic Feet per Minute) V = volume of the room (Cubic Feet) For example; Room = 10 x10 x 8 = 800 cubic feet Supply Grille = 10 x 8 x 6 with 6 inch flex duct attached delivering 80 cfm @ 0.1in. static pressure ACR = 60 x 80 / 800 ACR = 4800 CFH (Cubic Feet per Hour) / 800 ACR = 6.0 Conclusion: The complete volume of air filling this room is completely changed 6 times in one hour when the ventilation equipment is delivering its air to the room for that length of time. However, to be also considered is that the comfort system delivering the air does not always run for the whole hour straight. So to factor in the change rate, one must consider the demand for ventilation requirements based on building construction, heat load requirements, and buildings environmental characteristics. Such as shade, direction of exposure, glass, radiant, convection, and conduction heat loads. The more efficient the building construction, the lower the demand to heat or cool, thus reducing the air changes per hour unless the blower is set to run all the time in the on position as is normal in commercial settings. (1)

    The tables on the following pages show common Air Change Rates for buildings / rooms;

    Building / Room

    Air Change Rates - ACR (1/hr) min 4 12 - 15 8 - 15 20 4 - 10 6 - 10 20 - 30 6 - 10 15 - 20 10 - 15

    Building / Room

    Air Change Rates - ACR (1/hr) 4 - 10 8 - 12 6 - 10 12 -15 12 6 - 10 6 - 10 4-6 2-4 10 - 15

    All spaces in general Attic spaces for cooling Auditoriums Bakeries Banks Barber Shops Bars Beauty Shops Boiler rooms Bowling Alleys

    Court Houses Dental Centers Department Stores Dining Halls Dining rooms (restaurants) Dress Shops Drug Shops Engine rooms Factory buildings, ordinary Factory buildings, fumes and moisture Fire Stations Foundries Galvanizing plants Garages repair Garages storage Homes, night cooling Jewelry shops Kitchens

    Cafeterias Churches Club rooms Clubhouses Cocktail Lounges Computer Rooms Laundries Libraries, public

    12 - 15 8 - 15 12 20 - 30 20 - 30 15 - 20 10 - 15 4

    4 - 10 15 - 20 20 - 30 20 - 30 4-6 10 - 18 6 - 10 15 - 60

    Lunch Rooms Luncheonettes Nightclubs Malls Medical Centers Medical Clinics Medical Offices Mills, paper Mills, textile general buildings Mills, textile dye houses Municipal Buildings Museums Offices, public Offices, private Police Stations Post Offices Precision Manufacturing

    12 -15 12 -15 20 - 30 6 - 10 8 - 12 8 - 12 8 - 12 15 - 20 4

    Restaurants Retail School Classrooms Shoe Shops Shopping Centers Shops, machine Shops, paint Shops, woodworking Substation, electric

    8 - 12 6 - 10 4 - 12 6 - 10 6 - 10 5 15 - 20 5 5 - 10

    15 - 20 4 - 10 12 -15 3 4 4 - 10 4 - 10 10 - 50

    Supermarkets Town Halls Taverns Theaters Turbine rooms, electric Warehouses Waiting rooms, public Pump rooms

    4 - 10 4 - 10 20 - 30 8 - 15 5 - 10 2 4 5

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