infiltration rate

[AIVC, Air infiltration and ventilation glossary, 1992]:the rate at which outside air infiltrates a room or building. Equivalent to the fresh air change rate, usually expressed in air changes per hour (ach) or litres per second (L/s).(see air change rate)

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Informative Note: A ventilation zone is not necessarily an independent thermal control zone; however, spaces that can be combined for load calculation purposes can often be combined into a single zone for ventilation calculations purposes.

[EN 16798-7:2017, 3.2]:conditioned space which can be considered as air flow independent from other conditioned spaces (i.e. the air leakages between two adjacent zones are sufficiently low to be neglected, and there is no possibility of air transfer between two Continue reading →

infrared gas analyser

[AIVC, Air infiltration and ventilation glossary, 1992]:an instrument used to determine tracer gas concentrations by determining the transmission of infra-red radiation at a specific absorption frequency through a fixed path length.

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