Abstract
Energy Efficiency and Indoor Air Quality in the healthcare applications and particularly in surgical operating theatres are important features in modernized designs. The various reasons for deviation from obtaining optimum IAQ and energy efficient buildings are listed. The air conditioning systems serving the operating rooms require careful design to minimize the concentration of airborne organisms. Numerical approach is an appropriate tool to be utilized to adequately identify the airflow patterns temperatures and relative humidity distributions and hence energy efficient designs.
Highlights
The air quality of the indoor environment affects human comfort in a multitude of ways, depending on the contaminant
The air conditioning systems serving the operating rooms require careful design to minimize the concentration of airborne organisms
Airborne contaminants range from toxic substances such as carbon monoxide to nuisance matter such as large dust particles
Summary
The air quality of the indoor environment affects human comfort in a multitude of ways, depending on the contaminant. The effects of airborne contaminant on humans vary greatly with the nature and type of contaminant. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are complex environments that require ventilation for comfort and to control hazardous emissions. Ventilation and air distribution pattern have a great effect on the IAQ; air movement in a room becomes of vital importance to comfort. To design and construct ventilation system that is capable of efficiently fulfilling all requirements, often even contradictory, is a great challenge [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]
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