Personalized ventilation can improve occupants' thermal comfort, perceived air quality and decrease the intensity of SBS symptoms compared to mixing ventilation. Occupants will use the provided individual control of airflow rate and positioning of the air terminal device to obtain preferred microenvironment in rooms where the air temperature is within the range recommended by indoor climate standards. Development of more efficient air terminal devices is recommended.
Recommendations for optimal simulation of human breathing by means of a breathing thermal manikin when studying pollution concentration, temperature and humidity of the inhaled air as well as the transport of exhaled air (which may carry infectious agents) between occupants are outlined. In order to compare results obtained with breathing thermal manikins, their nose and mouth geometry should be standardized.
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