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Buildings Technologies Program
Date: November 1, 2011
Ventilation in Multifamily Buildings
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Today’s Speakers
Maureen Mahle is an engineer with Steven Winter Associates, Inc. where she manages the firm’s work with projects seeking certification under LEED® for Homes, Green Communities, the National Green Building Standard, and ENERGY STAR® for both single family homes and multifamily buildings. Much of her work focuses on balancing objectives for indoor air quality and energy efficiency. Sean Maxwell is a Senior Energy Consultant with Steven Winter Associates, Inc. where he provides energy audits for large and small residential buildings. He has extensive experience in performance testing of ventilation and other building systems. He also participates in research activities on emerging high-performance building strategies.
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Maureen Mahle and Sean Maxwell November 1, 2011
Multifamily Ventilation
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• Part I: Multifamily Ventilation Design • Part II: Multifamily Ventilation Implementation
Today’s Discussion
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• Ventilation Requirements • Air Movement in Multifamily Buildings • Fresh Air Ventilation Strategies • Local Exhaust Strategies • Energy Impacts of Ventilation
Part I: Ventilation Design
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Why Ventilate?
• Materials have changed
• Siting has changed
• Tightness has changed
• Codes and standards
Build-tight-ventilate-right saves more energy than building naturally leaky buildings, and air quality is better, too
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Two Primary Objectives
1) Providing Fresh Air - Whole-House
2) Removing Pollutants - Local Exhaust Our goal is to find the simplest solution that satisfies both objectives while minimizing cost and energy impacts.
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ASHRAE 62.2 Ventilation & IAQ
• Low-Rise Residential • Fresh Air (Section 4) Q = .01*S.F. + 7.5*(#BR+1) • Local exhaust (Section 5) K = 100cfm int /5ACH cont B = 50 cfm int / 20 cfm cont • Windows do not count • Best for Multifamily in-unit spaces
regardless of building height
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ASHRAE 62.1 Ventilation for IAQ
• MF 4+ stories • Fresh Air (Table 6-1) 5cfm/person + 0.6cfm/SF • Local exhaust (Table 6-4) K = 100cfm int /50 cfm cont B = 50 cfm int / 25 cfm cont • Kitchen exhaust not req’d for MF • Windows count for 25’ deep units • Best for MF common areas regardless of height
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Venting Challenges in Multifamily
• Forces acting on building (wind, stack effect) are much greater in multifamily buildings than other residential buildings
• Control of air movement is crucial! – Defining air barriers (pressure boundaries) – Tightening up mechanical systems to control flow
of air
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Fans as System Components
Question: How much air does a one horsepower fan move? Answer: It depends!
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Fans as System Components
• Fan performance dependent on rest of system
Graphic courtesy of Trane
• Higher static pressure = lower flow
• Fans = “pressure inducers”
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• Other forces at play: – Wind – Stack effect
• Pressure difference due to stack effect can be large >5 Pascals per floor
on cold days 10 story building =
50 Pa total
Forces at Play
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• Different fan locations = different flows
• Large fans for whole building must overcome stack effect
• Small fans for individual units must each overcome local pressure differences
Stack Effect
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Systems View of Ventilation
• Systems interact with each other: Positive and negative pressure zones produce inter-zonal flows
• Systems interact with air barriers: Good ventilation systems take advantage of good air barriers
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Systems View of Ventilation
• Tight construction both requires and allows good ventilation
• Compartmentalization, the construction of airtight individual compartments, breaks big forces (stack, wind) into smaller forces. It’s also important for unitized ventilation.
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Fresh Air Strategies
• Exhaust-driven fresh air ventilation, with or without makeup air
• Supply-driven fresh air
• Balanced fresh air and exhaust with heat or energy recovery
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Exhaust-Driven Fresh Air Design
• Exhaust slightly depressurizes the units
• Outside air enters through leaks, cracks, or planned inlets (trickle vent, not undercut)
• Widely used in the North
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Exhaust-Driven Fresh Air Design
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LR
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BR1BR2
CL B2 B1
9 CFM trickle vent-5 Pa
25 CFM25 CFM25 CFM
9 CFM trickle vent-5 Pa
9 CFM trickle vent5 Pa
75 CFM exhaust
9 CFM trickle vent-5 Pa
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Designed Inlets for Exhaust-Driven
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• Intentional openings in building envelope that allow a trickle of air into buildings in response to pressure differential
• Trickle Vents often built into window frames (AL,FG)
• Comfortable and effective when located high
• Good practice for 4+ stories
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Trickle Vents
AAMA = American Architectural Manufacturers Association
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A real-world application of 4 in 2 trickle vents
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Energy Impacts from Exhaust-Driven
• Align Local Exhaust with Fresh Air requirements for best efficiency (Ex: 25 Bath + 25 Kitchen)
• Continuous OR timer • Adjustable fans rated for
continuous use are best • Quiet fans <= 1 sone • ENERGY STAR fans
40-60 cfm, 6-10 watts
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Supply-Driven Fresh Air Design
• Mechanically supplied fresh air slightly positively pressurizes the units
• Forces stale air out through leaks and cracks
• Typically a 4-6” fresh air duct to return ductwork
• Used in Moderate and Southern climate
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Supply-Driven Fresh Air Design
LR
Kitchen
Bed 1
Closet
Laundry
HVAC
Bath
Bed 2
Typically 40-50 cfm design fresh air
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Energy Impacts from Supply-Driven
• Draws fresh air when air handler runs; add a control with timer + damper to trigger fresh intake periodically
• Air handler fans are large, so need efficient VFD to avoid energy penalty with this strategy
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Balanced Fresh Air Ventilation
• Transfer heat between indoor and outdoor air
• Neither pressurizes nor depressurizes
• Potential solutions for many climate zones
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Heat Recovery Ventilation
• Warms incoming winter air (or the reverse)
• Good to remove humidity
• Good for favorable humidity levels in & out
Cold Fresh Air from Outdoors
Cooled Stale Air Exhausted
Warmed Fresh Air to Living Space
Warm Stale Air from Living Space
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Energy Recovery Ventilation
• Transfers heat and moisture between indoor and outdoor air
• Moisture moves from more moist air to less
• Latent energy transfer adds 30%+ efficiency
• Good for cold dry AND hot humid conditions
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Energy Impacts of Balanced Design
• For best IAQ, avoid using bath exhaust
• Most efficient with small, separate ducts
• Central ERV systems serving multiple units are challenging to isolate
• Costly, so correct design and install is crucial
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Local Exhaust
• Remove pollutants and moisture
• Kitchens and bathrooms vented to outdoors
• Continuous exhaust
• Intermittent exhaust
• MF Central Systems
• MF Unitized Approach
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Exhaust: Central or Unitized? Central Exhaust Unitized Exhaust
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Exhaust System Design Parameters
Central Systems
• Constant Air Regulating (CAR) dampers to balance flows
• Airtight ductwork, including fan and grille connections
• Tightly compartmentalized units
Unitized Systems
• ENERGY STAR fans with variable speed where appropriate
• Short straight duct runs
• Tightly sealed ducts
• Tightly compartmentalized units
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Continuous vs. Intermittent Exhaust
Continuous • Bathrooms 20-30 cfm • Kitchens 5 ACH • Match whole-house flow
rates for Exhaust Only • Boost flow for localized
humidity or pollutants • Timed options
acceptable
Intermittent • User demand controlled • Bathrooms 50-80 cfm • Kitchens 100cfm • Vented range hood
removes pollutants closer to source
• Distinct from whole-house
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Energy Impacts of Ventilation
Specific heat of air (constant)
Yearly heating degree-days
Seasonal heating system efficiency (%)
Approximate change in infiltration due to exhaust (use 0.7 for central exhaust systems)
Ventilation means additional air must be conditioned.
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Sample Calculation
Annual Cost of Ventilation 23,000 CFM = $34,390/yr (heating cost only) + Electricity savings from
reduced fan energy and reduced cooling
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Specify & Verify Performance
• Write performance-based specifications for apartment tightness and duct tightness, based on ASHRAE, LEED, ENERGY STAR, etc. – Total duct leakage <6 cfm25 per 100 SF floor area – Total unit infiltration leakage <0.30 cfm50/SF enclosure – Exhaust fan flows within +/- 15% of ASHRAE 62 design
• Measure performance for to identify potential problems and to advance industry knowledge
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Educate End Users
• Ventilation is often misunderstood!
• Provide manuals and training
• Educate both building maintenance pros and apartment occupants
• Label switches and components
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Summary: Successful MF Ventilation
• Step 1: Understand ventilation requirements
• Step 2: Select the simplest design that can achieve both air quality and energy objectives
• Step 3: Build a tight building
• Step 4: Pay attention to installation quality
• Step 5: Check to make sure ventilation works
• Step 6: Educate users
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Section Break
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Doing it right the first time • Design • Construction • Common problems • Retrofit
Part II: Implementation Discussion
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MF Ventilation Design Essentials
• Focus on IAQ goals, not technologies • Choose appropriate technologies to fit goals • Design for durability • Do basic duct design, and do it well • Include performance specifications for leakage
and flow
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Is this appropriate design? • 2 ERVs
– 27,000 CFM supply to corridors
– 30,600 CFM exhaust from apts
• Code requires: – 900 CFM to
corridors (IMC) – 12,000 CFM
from apts (ASHRAE 90.1)
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Is this appropriate design?
• Single ERV takes exhaust from 2 risers; supplies air to corridors
• Simple HX core, low maintenance
• All other apt exhausts are at code levels – simple design – great construction
quality – Testing for leakage
and flow
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Tips for Long-Term Performance • Don’t rely on timers
– Choose constant, adequate ventilation instead
• Don’t rely on belts – Choose direct-drive, variable
speed instead – Ex: Greenheck Vari-Green
• Efficient DC motors (up to 3 HP soon)
• Variable speed for field adjust
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Design for Durability All New Buildings become Existing Buildings
• Fire dampers • Balancing dampers • Roof fan belts • Registers
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Mechanical Designers’ World View
• Balancing damper transferring responsibility to balancing contractor
• Many grilles, many floors, relatively low flow targets, plus wind and weather on balancing day = balancing is difficult
• Building inspectors are more worried about cranes falling down
• Many TAB contractors don’t have the right gauges
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Construction Quality Control
• Duct leakage • Register leakage • Balancing
• Whole-building systems • In-unit ventilation
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Duct Leakage Register Flows
117 CFM
Register blocked 0 CFM
75 CFM
29 CFM
13 CFM
Duct Leakage 49 CFM
Useful Ventilation
Total Flow at roof = 166 CFM
Energy Waste?
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Where Do Ducts Leak the Most?
Roof curb?
Takeoffs?
Transverse (sectional) joints?
Longitudinal (lengthwise)
joints? Could be any of them, OR…
Register connections
can be the largest set of leaks
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Tips for High Performance • Include performance specifications for duct
tightness in construction documents • Call out specific details to be sealed: all joints,
takeoffs, connections, registers, etc., etc. Then test for leakage:
• Good =
10 CFM50/register • Better =
5 CFM50/register
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In-Unit Exhaust Systems
Small fans, relatively low flow (50-100 CFM), low power consumption, easier to balance floor to floor
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In-Unit Ventilation Quality Control
• Duct sealing • Avoid kinks, long duct
runs; use rigid duct • Test for leakage early • Can also test for flow with
static pressure probes
From Panasonic
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Trickle Vents – Quality Control
Trickle Vents - Window Manufacturer Error
Clean holes
Improperly cut orifice Restricts flow
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Automatic Balancing Dampers 60 CFM 40 CFM 20 CFM 30 CFM 20 CFM 10 CFM
30 CFM 30 CFM 30 CFM 30 CFM 30 CFM 30 CFM
Balance in two ways: • Provide restriction in size of
opening (increase static pressure)
• Dynamically self-adjust to changes in the system (automatic balancing)
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Effects of Balancing on Performance
-10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 2
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Floo
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Negative Static Pressure WRT Trash Room (- Pascals) CFM
-10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 2
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Floo
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Negative Static Pressure WRT Trash Room (- Pascals) CFM
Pre-retrofit Post-retrofit
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Takeaways – Construction Quality
• Duct sealing is easy and critical to success
• Test early, test often • Restriction created by CAR
dampers or fixed orifices raises static pressure and helps balance system
97% reduction in free area
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Retrofit Process – Video Inspection
Blocked ducts
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Beer in ducts
Dirty ducts
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Retrofit Process – Register Inspection
• Large gaps at takeoff are very common
• Often the largest “duct leak” in the system
• Fixing requires entry into every apartment
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• Balancing damper at every register • Excellent sealing required (can be significant) • Very labor-intensive; tenant education required
Retrofit Process – CAR Insert Install
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Retrofit Process – Cleaning Ducts
Cleaning tips using compressed air
Vacuum to ensure dust removal
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Retrofit Process – Sealing Ducts
Rotating spray head applies mastic directly to leaks identified by camera
-Simple concept -Very effective on
straight shafts
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Sealing Results – Spray Mastic
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10
20
30
40
50
60
Registers Installed
Cleaned Sealed
CFM
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Shaft 1
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100 120 140
Registers Installed
Cleaned Sealed
CFM
50 L
eaka
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Shaft 2
Cleaning made leakier (by avg. 10 CFM50)
Sealing made tighter (by avg. 17 CFM50)
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Retrofit Results – Spray Mastic
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1200
1400
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9B 9K 18B 18K
CFM
50 L
eaka
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Pre-and Post-Retrofit Duct Leakage
Initial
Sealed
Recommended Maximum Leakage
10 CFM50/ register
84% Reduction
66% Reduction
60% Reduction
63% Reduction
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Retrofit Process – Sealing Ducts
Aeroseal® aerosol duct sealant sticks to holes in ductwork and seals
them
AEROSEAL FAN
Sealant Injector Fan unhinged
for Access to Shaft
Laptop for Automated Control & Diagnostics
• Measures leakage as part of process • Can work in more complicated shafts
• Achieves very tight shafts
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Roof Fan Replacement After Duct Fix 25 Fans on Rooftop Avg. Existing Fan Power = 300 W per fan (measured) New Fan Power = 140 W per fan (measured) Annual Electric Savings => $280
per fan ($7,000 for 25 fans) Installed cost = $500 per fan (with building staff installing)
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Takeaways – Retrofits
• Several sealing technologies exist – Spray mastic, Aeroseal
• Largest improvements can come from gaps at register connections
• Apartment access is critical obstacle in occupied buildings
• Possibility that building is over-ventilated; opportunity for energy savings
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Putting the Pieces Together
• In-unit exhausts • CAR dampers to
balance flow between rooms
• Excellent apartment air sealing (2.5 ACH50)
• Appropriate corridor supply Result = 30+ % savings
over ASHRAE 90.1-2004
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Airflow patterns in a tight unit with trickle vents
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Airflow patterns in a tight unit with trickle vents
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Airflow patterns in a tight unit with trickle vents
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Airflow patterns in a tight unit with trickle vents
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Airflow patterns in a tight unit with trickle vents
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More airflow from trickle vents, but still not a lot
Taping apartment-corridor doors
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Field Assessment – Balance • Tools
– Static pressure box – Balometer – Vane anemometer – Orifice flow box
• What this tells you: – Balance – Performance at registers
• What it doesn’t tell: – Total system flow (duct
leakage?)
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Field Assessment – Total Flow
• Velocity traverse on straight sections of duct – Hot wire anemometer
or pitot tube • Duct blaster on roof curb
(up to ~700 CFM) – Measure SP with roof
fan on – Replace w/ duct blaster – Match SP; record flow
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Summary
• Step 1: Understand ventilation requirements
• Step 2: Select the simplest design that can achieve both air quality and energy objectives
• Step 3: Build a tight building
• Step 4: Pay attention to installation quality
• Step 5: Check to make sure ventilation works
• Step 6: Educate users
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