Quantification of pollutants originating from building exhalation in urban environments. EXHAL

Quantifying pollutants originated by the exhalation of buildings in urban environments. EXHAL

Start - end dates: 01/06/2020 - 01/06/2024

Principal Investigators: César Martín-Gómez, Arturo Ariño

Other investigators: Juan Carlos Ramos, Amaia Zuazua-Ros

Assistants research: Robiel Manzueta Felix, Leonardo de Brito Andrade.

Participating entities: 

- department Construction, Installations and Structures, University of Navarra

- department of Environmental Biology, University of Navarra

- department de Mechanical Engineering and Materials, Tecnun, Universidad de Navarra

summary:

The aim of this research projectis to analyse, quantify and reduce the transfer of airborne pollutants from ventilation systems in residential buildings to urban environments. 

Ventilation systems refer here to the set of ducts, sensors and machines responsible for extracting polluted air from wet rooms, kitchen exhaust hoods, sewage networks and garages and bringing it outside. A set of systems that respond to the concept of building exhalation that will be developed on project. 

The research of this projectaims to systematise the concept of exhalation in residential buildings, to quantify the pollutants released into the atmosphere in several residential buildings with different ventilation systems, and to propose measures to reduce or eliminate these pollutants, as well as to propose their energetic or material valorisation when possible.

Funding body: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Projects of research and development+i Challenges research. challengemain - 5 Climate change and use of natural resources and raw materials. Nº transcriptPID2019-104083RB-I00

Amount financed: €145,200.

Web of diffusion of the project.