Your complete one-stop guide to building ventilation and air treatment systems design!! Immune Building Control Systems takes a comprehensive approach to the protection of buildings against biological pathogens. Immune Building Control Systems is a how-to-guide, an all-in-one reference for designing, retrofitting, and building state-of-the art ventilation and air treatment systems that can be integrated and controlled by a detection system. This guide is the first all in one guide to tackle this new and growing threat. The book includes all essential background information on chemical/biological pathogens and on the mechanical systems used to control indoor air quality and protect those that inhabit them. Packed with schematics, diagrams and equations this Immune Building Controls Systems provides the engineer with all the essential tools for the design or the retrofit of systems for treating or purging indoor air of biological pathogens. Specific systems for use in homes, schools, hospitals, and laboratories are described in sufficient detail. The accompanying CD contains a modeling program that will allow the user to test designs before they get off the drawing board as well as assist HAVC Engineers take a look that their systems and retrofit their systems to meet the new threat of biological pathogens.
Here in one definitive volume is all the information engineers need to tackle the life and death task of designing systems used to control indoor air quality and understand the various biological pathogens. Provides a complete review of specific systems for use in building systems technology. Softcover. Preface Acknowledgments Symbols Chapter 1: Introduction Introduction A Brief History of Chemical and Biological Warfare Bioterrorism Today Chapter 2: Biological Weapon Agents Introduction Microorganisms Toxins Bioregulators Weaponizing BW Agents Size Distribution of BW Agents Survival Curves of Microbes under UV Exposure Summary Chapter 3: Chemical Weapon Agents Introduction Classification of CW Agents Design Basis CW Agents CW Agent Simulants Summary Chapter 4: Dose and Epidemiology of CBW Agents Introduction BW Agent Dosimetry CW Agent Exposure Dosimetry CBW Agent Inhalation Dosimetry CBW Agent Ingestion Dosimetry Lethal Dose Curves for Toxins Disease Progression Curves Summary Chapter 5: Dispersion and Delivery Systems Introduction Outdoor Dispersion Systems Indoor Dispersion Systems Dissemination of Food-Borne and Water-Borne Agents Summary Chapter 6: Buildings and Attack Scenarios Introduction Building Types and Relative Risks Building Attack Scenarios Summary Chapter 7: Ventilation Systems Introduction Types of Ventilation Systems Ventilation Modeling Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling Summary Chapter 8: Air-Cleaning and Disinfection Systems Introduction Filtration Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Combining UVGI and Filtration Gas Phase Filtration Summary Chapter 9: Simulation of Building Attack Scenarios Introduction Baseline Building Attack Scenarios Simulation of CBW Attack Scenarios Simulation with CONTAMW Simulation of Several Model Buildings Multizone Simulation with CONTAMW Overload Attack Scenarios Sudden-Release Scenarios CW Removal by Outside Air Pumping Summary Chapter 10: Detection of CBW Agents Introduction Chemical Detection Biological Detection Summary Chapter 11: Immune Building Control Systems Introduction Control Systems Control System Architecture Emergency Systems Building Automation for Immune Buildings Summary Chapter 12: Security and Emergency Procedures Introduction Physical Security Measures Incident Recognition Emergency Response Disabling Services Emergency Evacuation Sheltering in Place Medical Response Security Protocol Personnel Training Summary Chapter 13: Decontamination and Remediation Introduction Decontamination by Physical Means Decontamination by Chemical Means Ozone Chlorine Dioxide SNL Foam Summary Chapter 14: Alternative Technologies Introduction Thermal Disinfection Cryogenic Freezing Desiccation Passive Solar Exposure Vegetation Air Cleaning Antimicrobial Coatings Electrostatic Filters Negative Ionization Ultrasonication Photocatalytic Oxidation Ozone Air Disinfection Microwave Irradiation Pulsed White Light Pulsed Filtered Light Pulsed Electric Fields Gamma Irradiation Electron Beams Summary Chapter 15: Economics and Optimization Introduction Economics of Filtration Economics of UVGI Economics of Carbon Adsorbers Energy Analysis Summary Chapter 16: Mailrooms and CBW Agents Introduction Mailroom Contamination Building Ventilation Systems Building General Area Mail Handling by Employees Contaminated Letters and Packages Mail Processing Equipment Delivery Vehicles Mailroom Protocol Summary Chapter 17: Epilogue Introduction The Future of Bioterrorism Collateral Indoor Air Quality Benefits The Engineer and the Future of Disease Control Appendix A: Database of Biological Weapon Agents Appendix B: Database of Pathogen Disease and Lethal Dose Curves Appendix C: Database of Toxins and Dose Curves Appendix D: Database of Chemical Weapon Agents Appendix E: UVGI System Sizes and Kill Rates Appendix F: Source Code for Direct UVGI Field Average Intensity Glossary References Index
Wladyslaw Jan Kowalski, is a Research Associate at the Pennsylvania State University Department of Architectural Engineering, where he is involved in the research and development of air-cleaning technologies and immune building systems. He has published numerous studies on the subjects of microbial filtration, UVGI system design, and ozone disinfection, and lectures and consults on the subject of bioterrorism defense.
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