Field Measurement and Evaluation of Effective Ventilation of Air Shafts in Subway Tunnel

Abstract

The ventilation performance of air shaft is important to the air quality of subway tunnel, but there lacks of unified evaluation index of ventilation performance. In this paper, the air shafts at different locations in subway tunnel were taken as research objects, and the wind speed of each air shaft was tested. The effective ventilation volume of air shafts was defined to evaluate the ventilation performance. It was found that on average, during the subway train serve once, the station air shaft in train-arriving side can discharge 2050 m3 dirty air in the tunnel and inhale 218 m3 fresh air from the outside environment, while the station air shaft in train-leaving side can absorb 2430 m3 fresh air, but can hardly effectively discharge dirty air; meanwhile, the middle air shaft can not only effectively exhaust 1519 m3 dirty air, but also absorb 7572 m3 fresh air. And the middle air shaft has better ventilation performance if its inner opening set on the top rather than on the side of the tunnel. This research can provide guidance for ventilation performance evaluation of subway air shafts and reference for the subway tunnel air shaft location design.