Ventilation devices and room air cleaners can be used to remove indoor contaminants from indoor air. Generally, room air cleaners are rated according to clean air delivery rate (CADR). However, a similar metric for ventilation has not been used to be compared with CADR of room air cleaner. The CADRs and cost-effectiveness metrics (CADR/kw) of ventilation devices and room air cleaners were newly defined and theoretically compared for a child care center. The results indicate that the CADRs of room air cleaner were greater than that of ventilation. A higher collection efficiency for the particles guaranteed a higher CADR for ventilation. Ventilation filter had a performance that exceeds MERV11 should be used to effectively control the indoor particle concentration. The stand alone type air cleaner was found to have the best performance in the cost-effectiveness. The reason for this is that the effective air cleaning ratio of the stand alone type air cleaner is higher than that of the others and the power consumption of the stand alone type air cleaner is lowest.

We performed numerical analyses on the optimal discharge angle of a 4-way cassette air conditioner, which is mounted on the ceiling of the classroom, by using thermal comfort and ventilation indices. We analyzed the effective draft temperature, the local mean age and the local mean residual life time with respect to the variation of the air discharge angle of the air conditioner in all occupied zone. Air diffusion performance index, local supply effectiveness and local exhaust effectiveness were used to investigate the optimal value of air discharge angle. From the results, we found out that the optimal discharge angle of the air conditioner is about 40 degrees in the present model.