Kitchen Ventilation Design Guide

The breadth of our products and the experience of your local greenheck representative offers you superior and reliable air movement control and conditioning solutions you expect from an industry leader.

Kitchen ventilation design guide. Without adequate ventilation and an ample supply of clean makeup air no kitchen will operate efficiently. Insider s guide to kitchen ventilation. Commercial kitchen ventilation design guide introduction a commercial kitchen exhaust hood is only one component of the kitchen ventilation system ckv. Commercial kitchen ventilation exhaust hood selection sizing 2 design guide no.

Guideline is kitchen designers me chanical engineers code officials food service operators property man agers and maintenance people. Kitchen effluent is the by product of commercial cooking processes that must be captured contained and removed from the space by the kitchen ventilation system. The ckv is a subsystem of the overall building heating ventilating and air conditioning system hvac. The target audience consists of kitchen designers mechanical engineers code officials foodservice operators and property managers.

Course content introduction ventilation is the single most important factor in the design construction and operation of commercial kitchens. Improving commercial kitchen ventilation system performance optimizing makeup air 3. Kitchen effluent consists of heat and contaminants very small grease particles grease vapor just like humidity in the air. The air that exits the building through exhaust hoods must be replaced with.

Fundamentals of kitchen ventilation a. Since 1975 greenheck has manufactured quality kitchen ventilation components and systems for restaurants and commercial kitchens. Kitchen effluent what is it. Kitchens and bathrooms are key sources of indoor moisture and other pollutants.

Kitchens produce particulates and atomized grease from cooking and with a gas range they also produce combustion by products including nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide. Kitchen ventilation design guide. Page 2 commercial kitchen ventilation design ckv design resources information in this design brief is based on the following two documents. Commercial kitchen ventilation design guide 1.

This guide is intended to augment compre hensive design information published in the kitchen ventilation chapter in the ashrae handbook on hvac applications as well as design guide.