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Don't Blow Air Directly onto a Pool
By Chloramine Consulting on February 19, 2020

In natatoriums, When the air gets rough, the fans get blowing. And that's not always a good thing.

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Natatoriums: The Mechanical Engineer's Dilemma
By Chloramine Consulting on December 16, 2019

Think of all the indoor rooms you have been in. Offices, classrooms, restaurants, your bedroom, etc.. Every indoor room probably had a ventilation system of some sort, and that system was...

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ASHRAE Standard 62.1 for Indoor Swimming Pools
By Chloramine Consulting on November 24, 2019

How do mechanical engineers know what to design for specific rooms, like natatoriums? What natatorium design resources do they use as guidelines? As it turns out, there are some standards...

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Debunking 'Solution by Dilution' for Indoor Swimming Pools
By Chloramine Consulting on November 7, 2019

The old, obsolete approach to natatorium air quality sounded like "the solution to pollution is dilution." In other words, introduce excess outdoor air (OA)–and exhaust more air...

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Understanding Source-Capture Exhaust
By Chloramine Consulting on August 31, 2019

Trichloramine, trihalomethanes and other noxious disinfection byproducts (DBPs) that off-gas from swimming pools are not your ordinary airborne contaminants. These substances–when condensed...

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The Difference Between Return Air and Exhaust Air
By Chloramine Consulting on August 28, 2019

This is a brief article to shed light on a problem of semantics in natatorium design. Too often, the terms return and exhaust are used interchangeably. They are not the same thing in indoor...

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Five Common Mistakes in Natatorium Design
By Chloramine Consulting on August 10, 2019

Common Natatorium Design Mistakes

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