Question:
Is there a limit to how much negative pressure can be in a building? Is there an Ashrae standard for this? I can't seem to find anything on this.
Background:
This is boiler plant that is for district heating of a few building around the plant. The combustion air for the boilers is taken from inside the boiler plant building which causes a negative pressure so the operators open a few of the large roll up door to get adequate air flow for the boilers. Opening the doors also causes a noise problem for the surrounding buildings. I have been asked to design a acoustic louver system to provide enough air flow into the boiler plant building. I want to know the negative pressure limit that I should use for the building to ultimately to get a pressure drop criteria for the air flow through the louvers into the building.
Thank you in advance!
Is there a limit to how much negative pressure can be in a building? Is there an Ashrae standard for this? I can't seem to find anything on this.
Background:
This is boiler plant that is for district heating of a few building around the plant. The combustion air for the boilers is taken from inside the boiler plant building which causes a negative pressure so the operators open a few of the large roll up door to get adequate air flow for the boilers. Opening the doors also causes a noise problem for the surrounding buildings. I have been asked to design a acoustic louver system to provide enough air flow into the boiler plant building. I want to know the negative pressure limit that I should use for the building to ultimately to get a pressure drop criteria for the air flow through the louvers into the building.
Thank you in advance!