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Application US20200348038
Published 2020-11-05
Hvac System Design And Operational Tool For Building Infection Control
A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system (HVAC) design and operational tool includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including obtaining a dynamic temperature model and a dynamic infectious quanta model for one or more building zones, determining an infection probability, and performing a plurality of simulations for a plurality of different equipment configurations using the dynamic temperature model, the dynamic infectious quanta model, and the infection probability to generate results. The operations include generating, using the results of the plurality of simulations, at least one of design including one or more recommended design parameters data or operational data including one or more recommended operational parameters for the HVAC system and initiating an automated action using at least one of the design data or the operational data.
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- 1. A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system design and operational tool for a HVAC system for a building, the HVAC design and operational tool comprising:
one or more processors; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
obtaining a dynamic temperature model and a dynamic infectious quanta model for one or more building zones;
determining an infection probability;
performing a plurality of simulations for a plurality of different equipment configurations using the dynamic temperature model, the dynamic infectious quanta model, and the infection probability to generate results;
generating, using the results of the plurality of simulations, at least one of design data comprising one or more recommended design parameters or operational data comprising one or more recommended operational parameters for the HVAC system; and
initiating an automated action using at least one of the design data or the operational data.
- 10. A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) design and operational tool for a HVAC system for a building, the HVAC design tool comprising:
one or more processors; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
obtaining a dynamic temperature model and a dynamic infectious quanta model for one or more building zones;
determining an infection probability;
performing a simulation using the dynamic temperature model, the dynamic infectious quanta model, and the infection probability to generate results comprising a recommended equipment configuration of the HVAC system; and
initiating an automated action using the results.
- 19. A method for providing design and operating recommendations for a heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system to achieve a desired level of infection control in a building, the method comprising:
obtaining a dynamic temperature model and a dynamic infectious quanta model for one or more building zones; determining an infection probability; using the dynamic temperature model, the dynamic infectious quanta model, and the infection probability to generate at least one of design recommendations or operating recommendations to achieve the desired level of infection control; and operating a display to provide at least one of the design recommendations or the operating recommendations to a user, each of the design recommendations or the operating recommendations comprising an associated cost.
