A review of different ventilation modes on thermal comfort, air quality and virus spread control

M Fan, Z Fu, J Wang, Z Wang, H Suo, X Kong… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the era of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), inappropriate indoor ventilation may
turn out to be the culprit of microbial contamination in enclosed spaces and deteriorate the …

Ventilation strategies and design impacts on indoor airborne transmission: A review

N Izadyar, W Miller - Building and environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the indoor airborne transmission issue to the forefront.
Although ventilation systems provide clean air and dilute indoor contaminated air, there is …

A review of strategies and their effectiveness in reducing indoor airborne transmission and improving indoor air quality

AN Nair, P Anand, A George, N Mondal - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Airborne transmission arises through the inhalation of aerosol droplets exhaled by an
infected person and is now thought to be the primary transmission route of COVID-19. Thus …

[HTML][HTML] A review on indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19–modelling and mitigation approaches

S Rayegan, C Shu, J Berquist, J Jeon, LG Zhou… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past few years, significant efforts have been made to investigate the transmission of
COVID-19. This paper provides a review of the COVID-19 airborne transmission modeling …

Ventilation strategies to reduce airborne transmission of viruses in classrooms: A systematic review of scientific literature

S Ferrari, T Blázquez, R Cardelli, G Puglisi… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The recent pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2 has brought to light the need for strategies to
mitigate contagion between human beings. Apart from hygiene measures and social …

[HTML][HTML] Designing post COVID-19 buildings: Approaches for achieving healthy buildings

S Navaratnam, K Nguyen, K Selvaranjan, G Zhang… - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the accessibility, social gathering, lifestyle, and working
environment to be changed to reduce the infection. Coronavirus spreads between people in …

Evaluating the Performance of UV Disinfection across the 222–365 nm Spectrum against Aerosolized Bacteria and Viruses

YH Lu, RX Wang, HL Liu, ACK Lai - Environmental Science & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Bioaerosols play a significant role in the transmission of many infectious diseases,
especially in enclosed indoor environments. Ultraviolet (UV) disinfection has demonstrated …

[HTML][HTML] Respiratory infection risk-based ventilation design method

J Kurnitski, M Kiil, P Wargocki, A Boerstra… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A new design method is proposed to calculate outdoor air ventilation rates to control
respiratory infection risk in indoor spaces. We propose to use this method in future …

Viral infection transmission and indoor air quality: A systematic review

Z Alqarni, Y Rezgui, I Petri, A Ghoroghi - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Respiratory disease transmission in indoor environments presents persistent challenges for
health authorities, as exemplified by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. This underscores the …

A spatiotemporally resolved infection risk model for airborne transmission of COVID-19 variants in indoor spaces

X Li, D Lester, G Rosengarten, C Aboltins… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The classic Wells-Riley model is widely used for estimation of the transmission risk
of airborne pathogens in indoor spaces. However, the predictive capability of this zero …