1、ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 185.1-2015Method of Testing UV-C Lightsfor Use in Air-Handling Units orAir Ducts to InactivateAirborne MicroorganismsApproved by ASHRAE on March 31, 2015, and by the American National Standards Institute on April 1, 2015.ASHRAE Standards are scheduled to be updated on a five-yea
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12、erring to this Standard or Guideline and in marking of equipment and in advertising, no claim shall be made, either stated or implied,that the product has been approved by ASHRAE.ASHRAE Standard Project Committee 185Cognizant TC: 2.9, Ultraviolet Air and Surface TreatmentSPLS Liaison: Wayne H. Stopp
13、elmoor, Jr.Dean A. Saputa,* Chair William Fowler Shelly L. Miller*Katja D. Auer, Secretary Jaak Geboers Richard Vincent*Eric Chen* Henry T. Greist* Derald WellsRobert Coleman Samuel Guzman David L. Witham*Charles E. Dunn, Jr. Ganeson Kandasamy* Teri WytkoStuart Engel* Rick A. Larson* Karin K. Foarde
14、Forrest B. Fencl David S. Marciniak* David R SkeltonStephen B. Martin, Jr. Benoit Despatis-Paquette Elliott HornerUri Rainisch Robert Scheir John PutnamJosephine Lau Jaak GeboersBrian Hafendorfer Matt Middlebrooks* Denotes members of voting status when the document was approved for publicationASHRAE
15、 STANDARDS COMMITTEE 20142015Richard L. Hall, Chair James W. Earley, Jr. Mark P. ModeraDouglass T. Reindl, Vice-Chair Steven J. Emmerich Cyrus H. NasseriJoseph R. Anderson Patricia T. Graef Heather L. PlattJames Dale Aswegan Rita M. Harrold Peter SimmondsCharles S. Barnaby Adam W. Hinge Wayne H. Sto
16、ppelmoor, Jr.Donald M. Brundage Srinivas Katipamula Jack H. ZarourJohn A. Clark Debra H. Kennoy Julia A. Keen, BOD ExOWaller S. Clements Malcolm D. Knight Bjarne Wilkens Olesen, CODavid R. Conover Rick A. LarsonJohn F. Dunlap Arsen K. MelkovStephanie C. Reiniche, Senior Manager of Standards ASHRAE (
17、www.ashrae.org). For personal use only. Additional reproduction, distribution, or transmission in either print or digital form is not permitted without ASHRAEs prior written permission.CONTENTSANSI/ASHRAE Standard 185.1-2015,Method of Testing UV-C Lights for Use in Air-Handling Units or Air Ductsto
18、Inactivate Airborne MicroorganismsSECTION PAGEForeword .21 Purpose.22 Scope23 Definitions .24 Test Apparatus and Procedures .35 Apparatus Qualification Testing 36 Bioaerosol Testing 37 Determination of Performance 68 Reporting Results .79 Normative References .7Informative Annex A: Test Organism .8I
19、nformative Annex B: Limitations.9Informative Annex C: Safety10Informative Annex D: Environmental Considerations11Informative Annex E: Microorganism Susceptibility to UV-C Irradiation12Informative Annex F: Technical Issues Regarding Aerosol.13Informative Annex G: Dosage Calculation 14Informative Anne
20、x H: Poisson Distribution15Informative Annex I: Informative References 16NOTEApproved addenda, errata, or interpretations for this standard can be downloaded free of charge from the ASHRAEWeb site at www.ashrae.org/technology. 2015 ASHRAE1791 Tullie Circle NE Atlanta, GA 30329 www.ashrae.org All rig
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22、ransmission in either print or digital form is not permitted without ASHRAEs prior written permission.2 ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 185.1-2015(This foreword is not part of this standard. It is merelyinformative and does not contain requirements necessaryfor conformance to the standard. It has not been pro-
23、cessed according to the ANSI requirements for a standardand may contain material that has not been subject topublic review or a consensus process. Unresolved objec-tors on informative material are not offered the right toappeal at ASHRAE or ANSI.)FOREWORDTest standards form the foundation for air-cl
24、eaner selectionin the ventilation industry. Recent U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) literature states that the most importantneed in the area of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI)is industry standards to rate installed devices. Standards fortesting and reporting on products under c
25、ontrolled conditionsare essential to users and specifiers so that they can compareproducts, predict levels of performance under specified oper-ating conditions with reasonable certainty, and determineappropriate UVGI efficiencies for specific situations.Historically, standards for testing air cleane
26、rs have beendeveloped in response to the needs of the day. Protection ofmachinery and coils came first, then reduction of soiling.Recent concerns about indoor air quality and respirable parti-cles, protection of products during manufacture, and protectionof HVAC equipment prompted development of tes
27、t standardsbased on particle size. Current interest in controlling airborneinfectious contaminants or viable species that produce chemi-cal contaminants as metabolic byproducts has created the needto provide a test standard for UVGI equipment.Standards Project Committee (SPC) 185.1 was organizedin 2
28、005 to develop a method of test to determine inactivationrates of airborne microorganisms in air-handling units andair ducts.This is a test-method standard, and its results are to beused to directly compare UVGI equipment on a standardizedbasis irrespective of their application. Results are also use
29、dto give the design engineer an easy-to-use basis for specifyingUV devices or estimating the relative performance of UVGIfor a given application. It is possible that an industry organi-zation may use this test method as the basis for an applicationstandard, in which they might require testing at con
30、ditionsdifferent than those required here.Informative notes are used throughout this standard toprovide nonmandatory guidance for the user in addition tothe nonmandatory guidance found in informative appendices.Informative notes are not part of the standard.1. PURPOSEThis standard establishes a test
31、 method for evaluating the effi-cacy of UV-C lights for their ability to inactivate airbornemicroorganisms.2. SCOPE2.1 This standard describes a method of laboratory testing tomeasure the performance of UV-C lights used in general ven-tilating systems.2.2 The method of test measures the performance
32、of UV-Clights to inactivate selected indicator microorganisms in theairstream. The standard defines procedures for generating thebioaerosols required for conducting the test. It also provides amethod for counting the airborne bioaerosols upstream anddownstream of the UV-C light in order to calculate
33、 inactiva-tion efficiency for each microorganism.2.3 This standard also establishes performance specificationsfor the equipment required to conduct the tests, defines meth-ods of calculating and reporting results obtained from the testdata, and establishes a reporting system to be applied to UV-Clig
34、hts covered herein.3. DEFINITIONS3.1 Definitions. Terms specific to the use of this standard aredefined below. Where definitions for a term are not provided,common usage shall apply.burn-in time: a period of time that UV lamps are powered onprior to putting the lamps into service, typically 100 hour
35、s.fluence: time integral of the fluence rate at a given point overa given duration, typically reported in microjoules per squarecentimetre (J/cm2).fluence rate: quotient of the radiant flux incident on the outersurface of an infinitely small sphere centered at a given point,divided by the cross-sect
36、ional area of the sphere, typicallyreported in microwatts per square centimetre (W/cm2).irradiance: the power of electromagnetic radiation incidenton a surface per unit surface area, typically reported in micro-watts per square centimetre (W/cm2).radiant flux: power emitted, transmitted, or received
37、 in theradiant energy per unit time, or total power of ultravioletlight, typically reported in watts (W).reflectivity: the fraction of incident UV-C radiation reflectedby a surface.ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI): the use of ultravi-olet C (UV-C) energy, through a system designed to delive
38、rUV-C, to kill or inactivate microorganisms.ultraviolet (UV) light: ultraviolet electromagnetic radiation,which has a wavelength in the range 10 to 400 nm. It can besubdivided into ultraviolet A (400 to 320 nm); near (400 to300 nm); ultraviolet B (320 to 280 nm); ultraviolet C, or ger-micidal (280 t
39、o 100 nm); far UV (200 to 122 nm); andextreme (121 to 10 nm).ultraviolet C (UV-C): electromagnetic wavelength between280 and 100 nm, also called short wave or germicidal. Thegermicidal UV wavelength (commonly 253.7 nm when gen-erated using a mercury vapor lamp) falls into this UV bandUV dose: the pr
40、oduct of UV irradiance and exposure time ona given microorganism or surface, typically reported in milli-joules per square centimetre (mJ/cm2).UV-C device: a complete assembly consisting of lamps, bal-lasts, and supporting fixture. Also called UV-C lights in theconfigurations, as specified by the eq
41、uipment provider. ASHRAE (www.ashrae.org). For personal use only. Additional reproduction, distribution, or transmission in either print or digital form is not permitted without ASHRAEs prior written permission.ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 185.1-2015 3UV light baffle: a device used to block UV irradiation a
42、nd letair pass.wavelength: the distance between repeating units of a wavepattern commonly measured in nanometres and designated bythe Greek letter lambda ().4. TEST APPARATUS AND PROCEDURES4.1 Test Duct. The test duct shall comply with the require-ments of ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 52.2, Method of Testin
43、gGeneral Ventilation Air-Cleaning Devices for Removal Effi-ciency by Particle Size,1except as noted in this section. Thefollowing items are not required: dust feed pipe, dust feeder,and final filter.4.1.1 A means of viewing the lamps to verify operationshall be included and consist of ultraviolet (U
44、V) absorbingmaterials to ensure that exposure to radiation does not occurduring viewing.4.1.2 Temperature within the test duct shall be 21C 2.2C(70F 4F), relative humidity shall be between 40% to 60%,and air velocity shall be 2.39 0.1 mps (470 20 fpm). Test airshall be discharged outdoors, indoors,
45、or recirculated.Informative Note: A slight temperature increase with acorresponding decrease in relative humidity will occur as theroom air passes through the blower. HEPA filtration of theexhaust flow is recommended when discharging indoorsbecause test aerosol and loading dust may be present.4.1.3
46、The test aerosol shall be injected into the ductbetween the inlet filter bank and the upstream mixing orifice.The aerosol injection system shall produce an upstream chal-lenge that meets the qualification criteria of Section 5.3. Theinjection system design is described in Section 6.1.2.4.1.4 The tes
47、t duct shall be isolated from vibration causedby the blower or other sources of vibration.4.1.5 The test apparatus shown in Figure 1 is designed fortest devices with nominal face dimensions of 610 610 mm(24 24 in.) and a length of 1 m (39.4 in.) before and 1 m(39.4 in.) after the test section. A baf
48、fle on the upstream endof the reflective duct section shall be flat black with less than5% reflectivity and optional baffle on the downstream end ofthe reflective duct section of the same reflectivity. A UV lightbaffle must be added 1 m (39.4 in.) upstream; a downstreamUV light baffle is optional. I
49、f the postexposure samplingoccurs greater than 1 m (39.4 in.) downstream from the UVdevice, the downstream UV light baffle is required. For pur-poses of this test, the duct walls for the section between thebaffle and the downstream sampling point must be con-structed with a reflectivity of 50% to 60% (e.g., a typical gal-vanized duct material). The reflectivity measurements of theduct wall shall be included in the report. A radiometer mea-surement shall be made to determine the effectiveness of theUV light baffle.4.2 Installation of UV-C Device. Ins
