The objective of this study is to propose a prediction technique for cooling effect of dry mist, and present useful data for design / control of a dry mist system. In this paper, the cooling effect of dry mist system was verified by two dry mist systems there were actually introduced and operated. One of the verified systems is a dry mist system that was installed into the air corridor on the site Aichi Expo. A cooling effect of this one was evaluated by using the field measurement data during three months. Another one is a dry mist system introduced into N university campus. We found out that the cooling effect by dry mist evaporative is presented about 3 degree Celsius of air temperature reduce and about 15 %RH of relative humidity increase. In addition, the cooling effect of the dry mist system was simulated with a CFD analysis code that is Fluent Ver. 6.3. The reproducibility was confirmed, and the possibility of the performance prediction of the dry mist system was shown.
In Japan, a performance-based code has been added to the existing Building Standard Law (BSL), rather than making a new Law. Before the revision, performance-based design had been done under the "equivalency" concept. Today, the law itself has been transformed to allow performance-based design. The revision is a result of requests from the legal sector that the Law, rather than the Government, should set standards to rule. As a result, government discretion has become more limited. In order to preserve continuity from the past, the current BSL includes both conventional prescriptive clauses as well as performance-based ones in the evacuation and fire resistant structure sections. The most important point is to clarify the objectives of regulation and their performance criteria. To avoid disturbance of technological development, definite requirements in the BSL and the Enforcement Order have been limited only to functional expressions. To allow efficient implementation, the government has set standard verification methods, new plan review routes and executive bodies. The strategy of verification of fire safety is that each value of prescriptive requirement transfers to the time that is calculated, and performance is required for not only each components of building and their testing method, but also for a unit of the whole floor, or the whole building.
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