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Figure 1. Suggested Number of Air Changes per hour for different ambients Analysis Lab 7-8 Bakers 10-20 Banks / Building Societies 5 Bathrooms 6-10 Bedrooms 2-4 Body shops 20-40 Cafes 8-14 Canteens 6-10 Car parks 8 Carpenters shops 10 Cellars 10 Cinemas 8 Clinics 5 Conference rooms 10 Copying offices 12 Craft shops 6-15 Department stores 7-8 Dormitories 5 Dressing rooms 8-12 Dry cleaners 30-40 Factories 10 Foundry 20-30 Galvanic baths 25 Gymnasiums 8-15 Hairdressers 10-15 Hospitals 5-10 Household lounges 7-8 Household showers 15-20 Kitchen, domestic 15-20 Kitchen, restaurant 15-25 Laundrettes 10-15 Laundries underground 30-40 Libraries 5 Living rooms 3-6 Medical offices 2-4 Medical surgeries 6 Motel / Hotel 10-15 Museums 5 Nightclubs 18 Offices 5 Painting 25-40 Pet shops 15-30 Pizza restaurants 20-40 Plants 4-10 Printers 10-15 Pub bars 8-14 Repair garages 10-15 Restaurants 8-15 Rotisseries 20-30 Schools 5-7 Self service 10-20 Shops 12 Shower baths 15-20 Stables 8-15 Stores / Warehouses 5-10 Supermarkets 5-10 Swimming pools 7-8 Tannery 10 Toilets, domestic 10-15 Toilets, public 10-15 Theatres 6-8 Veterinary surgeries 10 Waiting rooms 7-8 Woodworks 8
Air suction through extraction and pressure This guarantees greater ventilation, air emission and expulsion must be studied so as not to leave air pockets. The incoming air volume must be higher than the outgoing, so that the environment is slightly pressurised (15%).
Maintenance
Maintenance consists of periodically cleaning the impellers and all other parts in contact with the flow of air created by the extractor fan. Polluted air deposits grease and dust on the impeller and grill. This layer of dirt unbalances the impeller making the motor less efficient, putting it under excessive pressure and making it more noisy. Cleaning consists of removing the grease build-up with a damp sponge (not wet) and soap, after disconnecting the appliance and taking care not to wet and damage the electrical parts of the extractor fan.
Grills
It is better to have one or two grills to protect the extractor fan when it is not is operation. One outside, for manual or automatic operation, that does not allow air changes with the outside when the extractor fan is turned off. This grill is a part of the appliance and therefore should be obtained when purchasing. The outside grill is generally of the gravitational type. It protects the mechanism and circuits of the appliance against external atmospheric conditions, and prevents air changes when there is no internal grill.
General Warnings
To obtain the maximum performance out of your extractor fan, mount the fan as high as possible, but not directly, above a cooker hob or eye-level grill, in the shower cubicle, nor where temperatures exceed 40C. If there is an appliance in the room that uses solid, liquid or gas fuel (e.g. water heater, heater, boiler, etc.) that is not of the balanced flue type and that is airtight, sufficient air must be let into the room in order to ensure that the fuel appliance works properly and to compensate for the air extracted by the electric fan. The air taken in must not be let into existing ducts that are equipped to expel hot air when using ducted extractor fans. For example, combustion outlets of water and gas heaters. NOTE: the appliance must expel the air through single outlets or directly outside.
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