Early-stage emissions of formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds from building materials: Model development, evaluation, and applications

N Liu, X Zhang, L Wang, K Liang… - … Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Emissions of formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from building materials
may result in poor indoor air quality. The emission process can be divided into three stages …

Rapid prediction of airborne gaseous pollutant transport in aircraft cabins based on proper orthogonal decomposition and the Markov chain method

Y Wei, TT Zhang, H Jin - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid prediction of airborne gaseous pollutant transport is important for designing a safe
indoor environment. Current models generally solve the airflow fields by CFD first and then …

Identification of source location in a single-sided building with natural ventilation: Case of interunit pollutant dispersion

Y Dai, F Zhang, H Wang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
A sudden outbreak of COVID-19 occurred in December 2019 and its rapid spread over the
last two years caused a global pandemic. A special airborne transmission via aerosols …

A combined deep learning and physical modelling method for estimating air pollutants' source location and emission profile in street canyons

Y Zhou, Y An, W Huang, C Chen, R You - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Roadside air pollution monitoring stations have become frequently available for street
canyons. To efficiently estimate source location and emission profile in street canyons, this …

Comparing calculation methods of state transfer matrix in Markov chain models for indoor contaminant transport

M Hu, W Liu, K Xue, L Liu, H Liu, M Liu - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Fast and accurate prediction of indoor airborne contaminant distribution is of great
significance to the safety and health of occupants. Several Markov chain models have been …

A dynamic ventilation strategy for industrial buildings based on weight factors

Z Cao, J He, Y Bai, Y Wang, Z Xiao, Y Zhou… - Building and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In industrial buildings, pollution sources are often multi-point and unstable. This study
proposes a dynamic exhaust strategy (DES) that aims to balance energy utilization efficiency …

Improving Gas Distribution Tomography: Evaluation of Algorithms and Fan-Beam Measurement Geometries Indoors

Y Sun, W Chen, F Li, Z Gu, L Feng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gas distribution mapping (GDM) is widely used to evaluate the efficiency of environmental
control systems and locate pollution sources. In this study, the optimized fan-beam …

[HTML][HTML] Inverse estimation of the release rate of the heated pollutant source with strong convection and its application to the exhaust system design

L Cao, Y Wang, Y Huang, S Guo, J Guo… - Energy and Built …, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate release rate of the source is a crucial parameter for the refined design of the
exhaust system in the industrial buildings. For the heated pollutant sources emitted by strong …

Rapid simulation of airborne contaminant transport: Coupling concentration response factor method into a Markov chain model

M Hu, L Yan, H Liu, L Liu, M Liu - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Markov chain model has been proved viable for the airborne contaminant transport
simulation. However, its performance should be further validated and improved when there …

Reconstruction of airflow path parameters in multizone models based on Bayesian inference and measured data

F Li, J Zhuang, M Li, H Cai, J Zhang, X Cao - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The accurate inference of model parameters is important for predicting contaminant
distributions in multizone environments, which is critical for ensuring indoor personnel …