Engineering ToolBox - Resources, Tools and Basic Information for Engineering and Design of Technical Applications!

Carbon Dioxide Emission from the Human Body vs. Activity

Carbon Dioxide emission from persons vs. activity.

Sponsored Links

The Carbon Dioxide - CO2 - concentration in a room with people can be used to indicate ventilation system efficiency. It is even possible to modulate ventilation system capacities to the number of people and their activities by measuring the carbon dioxide concentration in the room air.

Carbon dioxide emission from persons and their activity:

ActivityRespiration per Person
(m3/h)
Carbon Dioxide Emission per Person
(m3/h)
Sleep 0.3 0.013
Resting or low activity work 0.5 0.02
Normal work 2 - 3 0.08 - 0.13
Hard work 7 - 8 0.33 - 0.38
  • 1 m3/h = 0.5886 ft3/min (cfm)

Example - Carbon Dioxide Emission from Persons in a Cinema

In a cinema with 100 persons with low to normal activity the emission of carbon dioxide is in the range 0.02 to 0.08 m3/h per person and the the total emission will be in the range 2 to 8 m3/h.

Sponsored Links

Related Topics

Related Documents

Sponsored Links

Engineering ToolBox - SketchUp Extension - Online 3D modeling!

3D Engineering ToolBox Extension to SketchUp - add parametric components to your SketchUp model

Add standard and customized parametric components - like flange beams, lumbers, piping, stairs and more - to your Sketchup model with the Engineering ToolBox - SketchUp Extension - enabled for use with the amazing, fun and free SketchUp Make and SketchUp Pro .Add the Engineering ToolBox extension to your SketchUp from the SketchUp Pro Sketchup Extension Warehouse!

Translate
About the Engineering ToolBox!

Privacy

We don't collect information from our users. Only emails and answers are saved in our archive. Cookies are only used in the browser to improve user experience.

Some of our calculators and applications let you save application data to your local computer. These applications will - due to browser restrictions - send data between your browser and our server. We don't save this data.

Google use cookies for serving our ads and handling visitor statistics. Please read Google Privacy & Terms for more information about how you can control adserving and the information collected.

AddThis use cookies for handling links to social media. Please read AddThis Privacy for more information.

Citation

This page can be cited as

  • Engineering ToolBox, (2004). Carbon Dioxide Emission from the Human Body vs. Activity. [online] Available at: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co2-persons-d_691.html [Accessed Day Mo. Year].

Modify access date.

. .

close

3D Engineering ToolBox - draw and model technical applications! 2D Engineering ToolBox - create and share online diagram drawing templates! Engineering ToolBox Apps - mobile online and offline engineering applications!

Scientific Online Calculator

Scientific Calculator

3 30

Sponsored Links
.