Air Quality

7.1 Fresh air and Air recirculated

The occupancy for each zone was observed and using Table 4-2 in (McQuiston pg 103) the required cfm
per person was calculated. The required cfm per person of fresh air changes depending on the activity
and functionality of each zone. Once the Required Fresh Air in cfm was found the percentages of how
much air needed to be fresh with respect to the air flow requirement to that zone was calculated. The
results are shown in Table #.

Zone 7 and Zone 12 are ventilated so there is no recirculated air. Zone 9 and Zone 10 are going to
require 100% fresh air because of the functionality of the zone and the physical activity of the people.
The Radio Maintenance Rooms (Zone 11) require 20% of its total flow to be fresh air however due to the
quality of the air in the workshops all of the air will be exhausted and not recirculated back to the main
unit. The % of Recirculated air from Zones 1-6 and Zone 8 gave a good approximation of how much air
was going to be mixed with the outside air. Mixing the recirculated air with the outdoor air determines
how large the cooling coil needs to be. An illustration of the state points on the Phsychrometric Chart
are found in Appendix.
7.2 Filters

With the amount of recirculation known the size of the filters were able to be calculated using a
pressure drop of 0.5 for each Plenum. Since all of the recirculation air from the zones are of similar
quality all of the filters can be assumed to be the same. The M-15 filter size 24 x 24 x 12 from Table 4-3
of (McQuiston pg 111) was selected based on its performance and fitted into position A in our
recirculation line (McQuiston pg 112). Table # shows the result of the size of the M-15 for each plenum.
Figure # in Appendix # shows the recirculation ducting for the entire building.

Put in appendix

Plenum3
Plenum1
Main Air Handler

Plenum2