Re-thinking of engineering operation solutions to HVAC systems under the emerging COVID-19 pandemic

Y Pan, C Du, Z Fu, M Fu - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The purpose of the study is to discuss the appropriate HVAC operations in civil buildings
from a perspective of engineering experience, to provide a safe and healthy indoor …

[HTML][HTML] Review of ventilation strategies to reduce the risk of disease transmission in high occupancy buildings

T Lipinski, D Ahmad, N Serey, H Jouhara - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
An unforeseen pandemic is facing the world caused by a corona virus known as SARS-CoV-
2. Numerous measures are being put in place to try and reduce the spread of this deadly …

Aerosol dynamics model for estimating the risk from short-range airborne transmission and inhalation of expiratory droplets of SARS-CoV-2

S Dhawan, P Biswas - Environmental Science & Technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
The highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus has resulted in a global pandemic.
More than a hundred million people are already impacted, with infected numbers expected …

Human exposure to respiratory aerosols in a ventilated room: Effects of ventilation condition, emission mode, and social distancing

G Pei, M Taylor, D Rim - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Airborne transmission of virus via respiratory aerosols plays an important role in the spread
of infectious diseases in indoor environments. Ventilation and social distancing are two …

Indoor air quality strategies for air-conditioning and ventilation systems with the spread of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic: Improvements and …

AM Elsaid, MS Ahmed - Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The coronavirus has come to the world and spread with great wide among the countries of
the world and has resulted in numerous infections that exceeded 167,181,023 million …

The impact of natural ventilation on airborne biocontaminants: a study on COVID-19 dispersion in an open office

GM Abbas, I Gursel Dino - Engineering, Construction and …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Biocontaminants represent higher risks to occupants' health in shared spaces.
Natural ventilation is an effective strategy against indoor air biocontamination. However, the …

Airborne transmission route of COVID-19: why 2 meters/6 feet of inter-personal distance could not be enough

L Setti, F Passarini, G De Gennaro, P Barbieri… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic caused the shutdown of entire nations all over the world. In
addition to mobility restrictions of people, the World Health Organization and the …

COVID-19 virus released from larynx might cause a higher exposure dose in indoor environment

J Wu, W Weng - Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19 virus can replicate in the infected individual's larynx independently, which is
different from other viruses that replicate in lungs only, eg SARS. It might contribute to the …

Environmental factors involved in SARS-CoV-2 transmission: effect and role of indoor environmental quality in the strategy for COVID-19 infection control

K Azuma, U Yanagi, N Kagi, H Kim, M Ogata… - … health and preventive …, 2020 - Springer
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a new zoonotic agent
that emerged in December 2019, causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This …

Effective ventilation and air disinfection system for reducing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection risk in office buildings

S Srivastava, X Zhao, A Manay, Q Chen - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, an increasing amount of evidence has suggested that the
virus can be transmitted through the air inside buildings. The ventilation system used to …