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MONICA multi-instrumented thermal manikin

MONICA (MONitoring Indoor Comfort and Air quality) multi-instrumented thermal manikin MONICA, developed in close collaboration with the CAMBI laboratory at UTCB (Universitatea Tehnică de Construcții din București, Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest) is the first multi-instrumented thermal manikin…

IRINA (Innovative Room for INdoor Air studies) experimental room

IRINA (Innovative Room for INdoor Air studies) experimental room The large-volume (40m3) IRINA, which stands for Innovative Room for INdoor Air studies, enables the controlled reproduction, in the laboratory, of real-life indoor air conditions on a 1:1 scale. The key…

Olfactory panel – EstaMINez

Olfactory panel – EstaMINez EstaMINez is a group of 7 female sensory evaluators trained for the objectivized evaluation of odors relating to indoor environments. They were initially trained in September based on Langage des Nez® ( “Nose Language”), a tool…

BORiS (Building Oriented Indoor Studies)

Experimental BORiS (Building Oriented Indoor Studies) Platform The Experimental BORiS platform for Building Oriented Indoor Studies, is a 20 m2 energy-plus building that enables in-situ studies on a 1:1 scale and in real conditions, with a complete interior space interacting…

ATOLL (ATmospheric Observations in liLLe)

Located in the heart of the University of Lille campus in Villeneuve d’Ascq, on the roof of the Physics Department, the ATOLL multi-laboratory platform is instrumented to measure a set of atmospheric variables of interest for climate, air quality and…

DouAir (mobile photochemical reactor)

DouAir is a mobile photochemical reactor that can be used (1) in the laboratory for homogeneous gas phase kinetic studies or (2) in the field to study the in-situ reactivity of an air mass. The advantage of this approach in…

CiGas European Centre of Expertise

ACTRIS (www.actris.eu) is a European research infrastructure producing high-quality data and services on short-lived atmospheric constituents and on the processes leading to the variability of these constituents in natural and controlled atmospheres. ACTRIS integrates, harmonises and distributes data sets, activities…

ALHEX (Analysis of Heat eXchanger performances)

The experimental and digital ALHEX platform is dedicated to characterising exchanges and improving the performance of thermofluidic components. This platform has both a digital and experimental component. The experimental part corresponds to a set of facilities and test benches designed…