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Occupant Exposure
CONTAM provides you with the ability to simulate the existence of occupants within a building. You can simulate the movement of occupants throughout the building, allow the occupant to leave the building, and determine the contaminant exposure of each occupant. Occupants can also generate contaminants within a building, so you can represent a contaminant source that moves through the building using an occupant.
Occupant exposure is determined by integrating the contaminant concentration to which the occupant is exposed over a period of time.
Exp = ∫C(t)dt
CONTAM presents results in terms of Exp/Δt. Where Δt is the user-defined output time step established for a transient simulation. From these results you can calculate a dosage as desired.
