Passive Cooling Floor Vents

There are two types of natural ventilation occurring in buildings.

Passive cooling floor vents.

This helps to provide cooling as well as removing moisture and airborne pollutants. Combining passive ventilation with ceiling fans to direct the incoming cooler air where you need it. Insulation is critical to passive cooling particularly to the roof and floor. Wind driven ventilation and buoyancy driven ventilation.

Passive ventilation is the process of supplying air to and removing air from an indoor space without using mechanical systems it refers to the flow of external air to an indoor space as a result of pressure differences arising from natural forces. Windows are often left open to take advantage of natural cooling and walls are easily shaded. This approach works either by preventing heat from entering the interior heat gain prevention or by removing heat from the building natural cooling. Mixed mode ventilation systems reduce energy consumption through the reduction of mechanical fan use and in some cases the cooling demands.

A passive vent is placed in a wall or a floor enhancing air flow without burdening fuel powered ventilation systems. Passive cooling is a building design approach that focuses on heat gain control and heat dissipation in a building in order to improve the indoor thermal comfort with low or no energy consumption. By using key natural ventilation strategies to ventilate during the day or night night cooling mixed mode ventilation reduces the use of mechanical systems and possibly the size of the system.