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Using Carbon Dioxide as a Tracer Gas to Measure Air Change Rate ...

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Sample Time<br />

<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Change</strong> <strong>Rate</strong> (1/hr)<br />

0.25<br />

0.5<br />

1<br />

2<br />

4<br />

Boelter & Yates, Inc. 2004<br />

Minimum Duration (hour)<br />

4<br />

2<br />

1<br />

.5<br />

.25<br />

Minimum sample duration b<strong>as</strong>ed on 10% uncertainty at the 95%<br />

confidence level in the detection of air change rate, a tracer g<strong>as</strong><br />

concentration me<strong>as</strong>urement precision error of 5% of reading and<br />

various air change rate. <strong>Using</strong> the regression method reduces the<br />

minimum test duration due <strong>to</strong> more than 2 data points.

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