1. Introduction A Built Environmental System (BES), illustrated in Figure 1, typically consists of several subsystems that interact with each other and with the surrounding environment through "flows" of air, heat, moisture, contaminants, light, sound, water, electricity and information. Environmental control tasks are defined with respect to human occupants. Information regarding the indoor en...

Milimeter Wave (mmWave) is a solution to overcome of frequency limitations in 5G technology implementations using high frequency carrier domain. This research discusses about mmWave frequency selection for 5G technology using empirical methods for indoor propagation model. Several mmWave frequencies are simulated on indoor office environment. Based on simulation with Indoor Hotspot (InH) placed...

In the course of a routine investigation concerned with polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination of dust collected in classrooms of a junior high school, a group of electron capture detector (ECD)-sensitive compounds with high boiling points were found in addition to PCBs. Using gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric techniques, these compounds were identified as polychlorinated terphenyls ...

Stratified air distribution systems such as Traditional Displacement Ventilation (TDV) and UnderFloor Air Distribution (UFAD) systems have been known to provide better indoor air quality. This study examined the influence of several key design parameters on air distribution effectiveness by using a validated CFD program. The parameters studied were space type, diffuser number, supply air temper...

Children are at risk for adverse health outcomes from occupant-controllable indoor airborne contaminants in their homes. Data are needed to design residential interventions for reducing low-income children's pollutant exposure. Using customized air quality monitors, we continuously measured fine particle counts (0.5 to 2.5 microns) over a week in living areas of predominantly low-income househo...

background solid organ transplantation patients are at high risk for opportunistic air-borne fungal infections due to using the potent immunosuppressive agents. objectives the current study aimed to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the fungal flora present in the air of kidney transplant unit of baqiyatallah hospital. materials and methods in this prospective study, air samples from pa...

background:: this study developed a smart co 2 detector, which attach to the general ventilation system to reduce the gas level. methods: indoor air quality measurement was performed in five selected rooms between january 2015 to february 2015 using tsi q-trak tm indoor air monitor 7575. the perceived indoor air quality conditions was gathered using questionnaires adopted from the industrial co...

This paper presents key elements on which to base the design of a strategy for a particular indoor environment measurement task. Starting from a general strategy for responding to occupant complaints and conducting epidemiological and intervention studies the paper concentrates on selected key elements, with focus on air contaminants. Strategies for grouping of occupants with the purpose of exp...

Persistent thermohaline pollution at a site along the northern coast of Israel, due to power and desalination plants, is used as a natural laboratory to evaluate the effects of rising temperature and salinity levels on benthic foraminifera living in shallow hard-bottom habitats. Biomonitoring of the disturbed area and a control station shows that elevated temperature is a more significant stres...