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1.4 DESIGN GUIDEBOOK (DGB) 5

The available systematic information regarding industrial air technology
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is scarce. There are some handbooks, such as those of Hemeon (USA), Ba~
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turin (1972), Heinsohn (USA), Goodfellow (Canada), and ACGIH (USA), 5
but they do not cover the whole field of industrial air technology. There is no
internationally accepted handbook available, and the designer has no vali-
dated solutions at his disposal. According to the present state of the art, both
capturing and ventilating systems are designed based on know-how rules (e.g.,
air exchange rate) and rarely achieve the targeted heat and contaminant load
removal without overdimensioning and excessive costs. This expertise is not
generated by systematic investigations but by experience with various plants
under construction and in operation. This is obviously due to a total lack of
approved design criteria and a lack of international or European standardiza-
tion, which make effective ventilation design impossible.
Another main reason to write a handbook for industrial air technology
was that there are large gaps and inaccuracies in the technical literature.
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Goodfellow and Klus outlined specific needs for a Design Guide Book in the
industrial ventilation field in an evaluation report for the Finnish INVENT
Technology program. 7
The project will be carried out in phases including the Fundamentals, Systems
and Equipment, and Applications. The main target of the DGB project is to write
an internationally accepted handbook, a much needed scientific reference, cover-
ing the whole field of industrial air technology with validated and updated knowl-
edge, and through it to raise the level of industrial air technology worldwide.
The Fundamentals book describes the basic theories and science behind
the technical solutions for industrial air technology. Equipment-specific theo-
ries will be completed in the Systems and Equipment book. The Applications
book will describe technical solutions for specific industrial sectors and tech-
nology areas, including design and construction methodology.

1,4.2 Structure of the DGB Fundamentals

This volume, Fundamentals, is structured in 16 chapters, as follows;
1. Industrial Air Technology—Description
The introductory chapter to the Design Guidebook describes why more
attention should be paid to industrial air technology, the definition and pur-
pose of industrial air technology, and the basic system principles.

2. Terminology
This chapter describes the set approach dealing with units, symbols, and
definitions, which are essential for providing texts that do not cause confusion
by having various chapters that use different symbols relating to the same unit.
This chapter provides the common language that is used throughout the book.

3. Design Methodology
Design methodology is the systematic description of the technical design
process of industrial air technology as an elementary part of the whole life cy-
cle of the industrial plant.