Showing papers by "Philomena M. Bluyssen published in 1999"

MATHIS - materials for healthy indoor spaces and more energy efficient buildings

Abstract: MATHIS is an European JOULE project which aims at enhancing the European Data Base on Indoor Air Pollution Sources (EDBIAPS) which is the result of an earlier European Project of the same name concluded in early 1997. Being an opportunity to enhance and extend the European Data Base by adding new data, performing new investigations on sorption and upgrading the model for prediction of indoor air quality, MATHIS will involve also some field tests and will support dissemination activities of EDBIAPS. This paper, in particular, discusses a number of issues related with testing and documentation of materials as indoor pollution sources and gives an overview of the working programme.

AIRLESS, a European project on HVAC systems: Project programme and current status

Abstract: In the beginning of 1998 a three year European project, AIRLESS, was started to develop strategies, principles and protocols to improve and control the performance of HVAC-systems and its components for incorporation in codes and guidelines. Twelve institutes, universities and companies from seven European countries are involved in this project. Knowledge on why, when and how pollution is caused by HVAC-systems is still largely undefined. Therefore the first step in this project is to defme this pollution and to investigate ways to prevent this pollution. In the second step, protocols can then be defined to keep this pollution away (maintenance). After having defined pollution contribution per component, a model can be made to predict the pollution caused by a certain system that still needs to be installed. Strategies to decrease the pollution caused by a total HVAC-system together with strategies to lower the energy consumption can then be defined. The project programme is discussed and the current status of AIRLESS is reported.