Table Of ContentHygiene requirements
for ventilation and
air-conditioning
systems and -units
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REHVA Task Force on
Hygiene in Air-Conditioning Systems
The present work has been carried out by the REHVA task force on hygiene in close co–
operation with the German working group on the Guideline VDI 6022 (April 2006).
The members of the REHVA Task Force and reviewers are:
Braham Derrick CIBSE United Kingdom
Brunner Arnold SWKI Switzerland
Hogeling Jaap TVVL Netherlands
Keune Achim VDI-TGA Germany
Mampaey Joris ATIC Belgium
Pasanen Pertti FINVAC Finland
Terhorst Thomas Secretary Germany
Seppänen Olli REHVA Finland
Winkens Andreas VDI-TGA, Germany Germany
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Member countries of Rehva
Austria Greece Russia
Belgium Hungary Serbia and Montenegro
Bosnia and Herzegovina Ireland Slovakia
Bulgaria Italy Slovenia
Croatia Latvia Spain
Czech Republic Lithuania Sweden
Denmark The Netherlands Switzerland
Estonia Norway Turkey
Finland Poland United Kingdom
France Portugal
Germany Romania
REHVA Task Force on
Hygiene in Air-Conditioning Systems
The present work has been carried out by the REHVA task force on hygiene in close co–
operation with the German working group on the Guideline VDI 6022 (April 2006).
The members of the REHVA Task Force and reviewers are:
Braham Derrick CIBSE United Kingdom
Brunner Arnold SWKI Switzerland
Hogeling Jaap TVVL Netherlands
Keune Achim VDI-TGA Germany
Mampaey Joris ATIC Belgium
Pasanen Pertti FINVAC Finland
Terhorst Thomas Secretary Germany
Seppänen Olli REHVA Finland
Winkens Andreas VDI-TGA, Germany Germany
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The authors of VDI 6022 are:
Arnold, Elisabeth, Germany Lüdemann, Klaus, Germany
Backes, Christian, Germany Lüderitz, Peter, Germany
Damm, Thomas, Germany Möritz, Martin, Germany
Gruler, Martin, Germany Müller, Birgit, Germany
Händel, Claus, Germany Peters, Hans, Germany
Hildebrand, Kurt, Switzerland Scheer, Frank, Germany
Kappler, Winfried, Germany Schroers, Dieter, Germany
Kaup, Christoph, Germany Taut, Ulrich, Germany
Keune, Achim (Chairman), Germany Thiem, Hiltrud, Germany
Koch, Andrea, Germany Tietze, Bernd, Germany
Krempien, Wilfried, Germany Weißer, Jörg, Germany
Krühne, Holger, Germany Winkens, Andreas, Germany
Kryschi, Rainer, Germany Wokittel, Andreas, Germany
Küter, Bernhard, Germany Zurfluh, Benno, Switzerland
Acknowledgments
The task force members would like to express gratitude to Verity and Derrick Braham
who corrected the language. This was especially welcome as most of the members of the
Task Force are not native English speakers.
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REHVA –
Federation of European Heating and Air–Conditioning Associations
REHVA, now almost 50 years old, is an or- handling systems for better indoor air qual-
ganization of European professionals in the ity.
field of building services (heating, ventilat-
ing and air-conditioning). REHVA repre- The guidebook “Hygiene requirement for ven-
sents more than 100 000 experts from 30 tilation and air-conditioning system and –units”
European countries. is based on VDI Guideline 6022, one of the
most popular Guidelines published by VDI.
REHVA’s main activity is to develop and Since 1998, more than 10.000 copies of VDI
disseminate economical, energy efficient Guidebooks have been printed and thousands
and health technology for the mechanical of people went to the training described in the
services of buildings. The work is super- guidebook. As the result the hygiene standard
vised by the board of directors. REHVA in air-conditioning systems today is much bet-
guidebook projects are coordinated by the ter than 10 years ago. REHVA´s Swiss mem-
Technical Committee of REHVA. ber SWKI accepted the VDI 6022 Guideline as
SWKI-2003-5, in 2003. With this REHVA-
The objectives of this work are: Guidebook, the experience from two REHVA
• to initiate work for technical guidebooks in the member associations is made available to all
area of building services REHVA members. The REHVA working
• to establish task forces for such guidebooks group revised and updated the German Guide-
• to develop distribution of REHVA Guidebooks book with some new ideas and procedures.
to members and other professionals The training, described in this guidebook is just
• to supervise the quality of REHVA Guidebooks an example, how it works in Germany. Other
countries may adopt different approaches that
Several task forces are currently working on may be supported by the national governments.
REHVA guidebooks such as: Low tempera- The guidebook complements the REHVA
ture heating high temperature cooling, CFD guidebook no 8 Cleanliness of ventilation
in ventilation design, performance and systems, published at the same time.
Energy efficiency of cooling towers, Indoor
environment in museums, and Indoor envi- The guidebook is intended for designers, in-
ronment in schools. stallers, facility managers and building
owners. With its illustrations and examples
A growing body of evidence shows that in- it is also an excellent textbook for the voca-
door environmental conditions substantially tional training of various building profes-
influence health and productivity. Ventila- sionals
tion is an important contribution to air
quality. Its purpose is to maintain good in- The REHVA Board would like to express
door air quality. But air handling systems its sincere gratitude to the working group
may also be a source of pollution if not for this invaluable work. REHVA would
properly constructed and maintained. This also like to express its gratitude to the as-
guidebook presents criteria and methods on sociations and companies that financially
how to design, install and maintain clean air supported the publication of the guidebook.
Olli Seppänen
President of REHVA
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SUMMARY
This Guidebook is intended to provide a ability insurance associations as well as
holistic formulation of hygiene-related company physicians and public health of-
constructional, technical and organisational ficers.
requirements to be observed in the plan-
ning, manufacture, execution, operation This guideline supplements other guide-
and maintenance of ventilating and air- lines and standards in the field of ventila-
conditioning systems. These requirements tion and air-conditioning as far as hygiene
for ventilating and air-conditioning sys- is concerned, even where no explicit refer-
tems primarily serve to protect human ence is made in those guidelines.
health; they may, however, also be the
consequence of technical conditions. In revising the 1998 edition of VDI 6022,
the parts of the guideline, which had
The guideline addresses, in particular, grown historically, have been amalga-
building owners, architects, planners, sys- mated into one guideline. The superseding
tem manufacturers, equipment manufac- of DIN 1946-2 by EN 13779 has been
turers, approving authorities, experts, taken into account. The descriptions of
owners/operators, building managers, measurement methods, which were asked
maintenance personnel, occupants and for by comments on the draft version of
those representing their interests such as this guideline, will be published as a sepa-
staff or workers’ councils, employers’ li- rate guideline.
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LIST OF CONTENTS
1 SCOPE AND FIELD OF APPLICATION...............................................................1
1.1 Scope of application............................................................................................1
1.2 Guidance for application to existing systems......................................................1
2 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS....................................................................................2
3 GENERAL...................................................................................................................5
3.1 Tasks of ventilating and air-conditioning systems and air-handling units..........5
3.2 Supply-air quality................................................................................................5
3.3 Reference air.......................................................................................................6
3.4 Physical requirements.........................................................................................9
3.5 Chemical and microbiological requirements.......................................................9
4 REQUIREMENTS FOR DESIGN, MANUFACTURE AND INSTALLATION10
4.1 General guidance...............................................................................................10
4.2 Guidance on design and installation in view of operation................................11
4.3 Components.......................................................................................................12
4.4 Shipment...........................................................................................................23
4.5 Commissioning/acceptance...............................................................................23
4.6 Responsibilities in planning, manufacture, and installation..............................24
5 REQUIREMENT FOR OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE...........................28
5.1 General guidance...............................................................................................28
5.2 Hygiene checks.................................................................................................29
5.3 Hygiene inspections..........................................................................................30
5.4 Components.......................................................................................................32
5.5 Checklist for operation and maintenance..........................................................36
6 OWNER/OPERATOR- AND BRANCH-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS...........43
6.1 Food, luxury food, and tobacco industries........................................................43
6.2 Wood industry (for examples joineries, cabinet, and furniture manufacturers) 44
6.3 Textile industry.................................................................................................44
6.4 Printing and paper.............................................................................................45
6.5 Metalworking and automotive industries..........................................................45
6.6 Residences and residential buildings.................................................................46
7 QUALIFICATION AND TRAINING.....................................................................47
REFERENCES................................................................................................................48
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ANNEX A GERMAN EXAMPLE OF CONTENTS AND
TRAINING PROCEDURES IN ACCORDANCE WITH VDI 6022..........50
ANNEX B EXAMPLE OF CATEGORY A AND CATEGORY B
QUALIFICATION CERTIFICATE (TWO PAGES)...................................62
ANNEX C EXAMPLE OF CATEGORY C INSTRUCTION REPORT.........................64
ANNEX D GUIDE VALUES FOR THE QUALITY OF WATER
IN HVAC-SYSTEMS...................................................................................65
ANNEX E EXPERIENCES WITH THE EDUCATION OF TECHNICIANS
IN HYGIENIC TOPICS IN GERMANY......................................................69
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1 SCOPE AND FIELD OF APPLICATION
1.1 Scope of application 1.2 Guidance for application to
existing systems
The Guidebook applies to all ventilating
and air-conditioning systems and air-han- Existing ventilating and air-conditioning
dling units supplying air to rooms or occu- systems may operate in non-compliance
pied areas in rooms which are intended for with documents published after their con-
use by persons on more than 30 days per struction. In order to ensure continued com-
year or more than two hours per day on a pliance of hygiene quality, these systems
regular basis [1]. It applies to all systems require more frequent hygiene checks and
and central or decentralised components inspections, and simple measures should be
thereof (including units such as recooling initiated immediately. Furthermore, it is rec-
plants), which influence the quality of the ommended that a stepped schedule be de-
supply air. fined for complete implementation of this
guidebook, if the existing system allows this.
Only then will this guideline apply to ex- Reconstruction is required in any case where
tract-air systems if these can influence the occupants suffer from obvious discomfort,
quality of supply air by recirculation (see or where serious hygiene deficiencies are
also definition of recirculated air in Sec- found. Any additional requirements, as
tion 2). stipulated by, e.g., the employers’ liability
insurance associations, may apply.
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