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Air Handling Unit: Unit (Often Abbreviated To AHU)

HVAC systems condition and circulate air as part of a building's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system. They provide ventilation, reduce air infiltration, and maintain pressure relationships between spaces by delivering air to and removing it from spaces through ductwork. Properly designing ductwork by keeping runs short and sizing ducts and diffusers correctly can help reduce noise and assist air flow. Air conditioning systems provide cooling, ventilation, and humidity control through ducts, fan coils, or split systems with remote condenser units. Mechanical ventilation also helps control indoor air quality.

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Air Handling Unit: Unit (Often Abbreviated To AHU)

HVAC systems condition and circulate air as part of a building's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system. They provide ventilation, reduce air infiltration, and maintain pressure relationships between spaces by delivering air to and removing it from spaces through ductwork. Properly designing ductwork by keeping runs short and sizing ducts and diffusers correctly can help reduce noise and assist air flow. Air conditioning systems provide cooling, ventilation, and humidity control through ducts, fan coils, or split systems with remote condenser units. Mechanical ventilation also helps control indoor air quality.

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HVAC

• that stands for the closely related functions of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning

• the technology of indoor or automotive environmental comfort

• It is based on the principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

HVAC systems can

• provide ventilation

• reduce air infiltration

• maintain pressure relationships between spaces.

• How air is delivered to, and removed from spaces is known as room air distribution

Air Handling Unit


• An air handler, or air handling
unit (often abbreviated to AHU),
is a device used to condition and
circulate air as part of a heating,
ventilating, and air-conditioning
(HVAC) system.

Design considerations

Ductwork

• Duct runs should be kept as short as possible, to minimize flow resistance and noise.

• Ducts should be properly sized for their length of run and their flow rates.

• The use of flexible ducting should be avoided wherever possible and the total number of elbows
should be minimized to reduce flow resistance and noise.

• Supply air diffusers and return air grilles should be located to assist their function and minimize
cold drafts

• Kitchen exhaust ducts must have a grease filter.

• 50 CFM Energy bath exhausts and minimum 100 CFM kitchen exhausts ensure moist air removal
to the exterior.
Air Conditioning

• An air conditioning system provides cooling, ventilation, and humidity control for all or part of a
house or building

• A duct system must be carefully maintained to prevent the growth of pathogenic bacteria in the
ducts.

• An alternative to large ducts to carry the needed air to heat or cool an area is the use of remote
fan coils or split systems.

• These systems, although most often seen in residential applications, are gaining popularity in
small commercial buildings. The evaporator coil is connected to a remote condenser unit using
piping instead of ducts.

• All modern air conditioning systems, down to small "window" units, are equipped with internal
air filters

Mechanical Ventilation
• "Mechanical" or "forced" ventilation is used to
control indoor air quality.

• Control of excess humidity, odors, and


contaminants.

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