Ventilative cooling is the use of natural or mechanical ventilation to cool indoor spaces.[1] The use of outside air reduces the cooling load and the energy consumption of these systems, while maintaining high quality indoor conditions; passive ventilative cooling may eliminate energy consumption. Ventilative cooling strategies are applied in a wide range of buildings and may even be critical to realize renovated or new high efficient buildings and zero-energy buildings (ZEBs).[2] Ventilation is present in buildings mainly for air quality reasons. It can be used additionally to remove both excess heat gains, as well as increase the velocity of the air and thereby widen the thermal comfort range.[3] Ventilative cooling is assessed by long-term evaluation indices.[4] Ventilative cooling is dependent on the availability of appropriate external conditions and on the thermal physical characteristics of the building.
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