Experimental study on indoor environment quality in a naturally ventilated classroom of a university using natural ventilation and ventilation fan

Abstract

Strengthening indoor ventilation is an important measure to improve air quality. In transitional season between spring and summer, a university classroom in Jinan city was selected as the research object. Mechanical air supply is adopted to solve the problem of insufficient fresh air or excessive carbon dioxide concentration in the classroom. CO2 concentration and air change rates are compared in natural ventilation and mechanical classrooms. The experiment shows that the indoor CO2 concentration of mechanical ventilation classroom is relatively low. Under natural ventilation, mechanical ventilation and mixed ventilation, the average air change rates were 1.05 h-1, 1.83 h-1 and 2.7 h-1, respectively. According to the statistics analysis of the questionnaire, 72.84% of the students hope to install the mechanical ventilation in the classroom.