Conclusion

To design an air recirculation system it is necessary to know the performances of fans, air cleaners, and exhaust hoods included in the current system. The equations described here include the source generation rate and the total air­flow rate through the room, which could be difficult to measure. The ratio be­tween source rate and flow rate has the unit of concentration and should in fact be equal to the concentration without recirculation. The equations could thus be transformed to include the contaminant concentration without recir­culation instead of this ratio. In this way a direct comparison between concen­tration without and with recirculation is possible. By using the described equations it is then possible to design an air recirculation system to result in the demanded concentration in a workroom.

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