Development and evaluation of a new push-pull ventilation system for sheet-adhesive work inside bus-body.

We present the performance of a new push-pull ventilation system for sheet-adhesive work inside the body of a sightseeing coach. The target sightseeing coach was 12 m long, 2.5 m wide and 2 m high from floor to ceiling. We made a prototype of an airflow system and a half-scale model of the bus-body. The half scale model was 6 m long, 1.25 m wide and 0.965 m high. The push-pull ventilation system and half-scale model were used to evaluate the flow distributions inside the model. We also measured the concentration of xylene and methanol vapors during simulated sheet-adhesive work. As a result, it was found that the best combination was a the push flow of 24 m3/min and a pull flow of 78 m3/min in this model, and the flow velocity in the model was less than 1 m/s. This system is potentially applicable to any interior work for not only bus-bodies but also train and airplane bodies, which have elongated and confined space with many openings.