Print Email Facebook Twitter Respiratory infection risk-based ventilation design method Title Respiratory infection risk-based ventilation design method Author Kurnitski, Jarek (Tallinn University of Technology; Aalto University) Kiil, Martin (Tallinn University of Technology) Wargocki, Pawel (Technical University of Denmark) Boerstra, A.C. (TU Delft Support Architectural Engineering +Technology) Seppänen, Olli (SCANVAC) Olesen, Bjarne (Technical University of Denmark) Morawska, Lidia (Queensland University of Technology; University of Surrey) Date 2021 Abstract 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 ventilation standards to complement existing ventilation criteria based on the perceived air quality and pollutant removal. The proposed method makes it possible to calculate the required ventilation rate at a given probability of infection and quanta emission rate. Present work used quanta emission rates for SARS-CoV-2 and consequently the method can be applied for other respiratory viruses with available quanta data. The method was applied to case studies representing typical rooms in public buildings. To reduce the probability of infection, the total airflow rate per infectious person revealed to be the most important parameter to reduce the infection risk. Category I ventilation rate prescribed in the EN 16798-1 standard satisfied many but not all type of spaces examined. The required ventilation rates started from about 80 L/s per room. Large variations between the results for the selected case studies made it impossible to provide a simple rule for estimating the required ventilation rates. Consequently, we conclude that to design rooms with a low infection risk the newly developed ventilation design method must be used. Subject Airborne pathogensCOVID-19Design methodEvent reproduction numberQuanta emissionRespiratory infectionVentilation criteriaVentilation standards To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:328fcd48-e233-47c7-b68e-b3b32dd635b0 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108387 ISSN 0360-1323 Source Building and Environment, 206 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 Jarek Kurnitski, Martin Kiil, Pawel Wargocki, A.C. Boerstra, Olli Seppänen, Bjarne Olesen, Lidia Morawska Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0360132321007848_main.pdf 3.54 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:328fcd48-e233-47c7-b68e-b3b32dd635b0/datastream/OBJ/view