An environment control system utilizes oxygen and humidity control devices that are coupled with an enclosure to independently control the oxygen concentration and the humidity level within the enclosure. An oxygen depletion device may be an oxygen depletion electrolyzer cell that reacts with oxygen within the cell and produces water through electrochemical reactions. A desiccating device may be g, a dehumidification electrolyzer cell, a desiccator, a membrane desiccator or a condenser. A controller may control the amount of voltage and/or current provided to the oxygen depletion electrolyzer cell and therefore the rate of oxygen reduction and may control the amount of voltage and/or current provided to the dehumidification electrolyzer cell and therefore the rate of humidity reduction. The oxygen level may be determined by the measurement of voltage and a limiting current of the oxygen depletion electrolyzer cell. The enclosure may be a food or artifact enclosure.

A living atmosphere control system is provided with a primary living area, a green cell containing plants consisting of Boston fern, aloe vera, areca palm, peace lily, and garden mums, at least one inlet configured for transporting oxygen from said green cell into said living area, and at least one outlet configured to transport carbon dioxide from said living area to said dehumidifying coils.

A ventilation system includes a line system which is designed to guide an air stream and to provide the air stream during normal operation via an outlet of the line system for supplying a space. The ventilation system includes a generating unit which is designed to produce reactive oxygen species during a cleaning operation and to feed the same to the air stream conducted in the line system. Also disclosed are methods for operating such a ventilation system and a generating unit for such a ventilation system.

Systems and methods for circulating air in an enclosed environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes an inlet to receive air from outside of the enclosed environment and an air handling unit coupled to the inlet and also configured to receive circulated air from the enclosed environment. The air handling unit can be configured to affect a temperature of at least one of the received outside air and the received circulated air. Based on the received outside air and the received circulated air, the air handling unit can be further configured to generate air for supplying to the enclosed environment.

A room 100 in a building has a living etc. space 101 of volume V that is an enclosed space. Ventilation of an air flow F is performed from the outside to the living etc. space 101. Entering/exiting of air as an air current between the inside of the living etc. space 101 and the outside is eliminated, and at least a part of the boundary between the living etc. space 101 and the outside is configured from a gas exchange membrane 310 having a diffusion constant D, a thickness L, and an area A for gas molecules of interest. When air inside the living etc. space 101 is sufficiently agitated and the concentration of gas molecules constituting the air is made spatially uniform, (t) is controlled so as to vary according to

[00001]$\begin{array}{cc}\left(t\right)={}_o-\frac{\mathrm{BL}}{\mathrm{AD}}.Math.\left(1-\exp \left(-\left[\mathrm{AD}.Math.\text{/}.Math.L\right].Math.t.Math.\text{/}.Math.V\right)\right)& \left(9\right)\end{array}$

B(m.sup.3/s) is the gas consumption amount inside the living etc. space 101, .sub.1(t) is the gas concentration inside the living etc. space 101 at time t, and 0 is the gas concentration of the outside.

Disclosed is an air conditioner for creating a comfortable indoor environment. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit configured to have a carbon dioxide remover for filtering carbon dioxide from indoor air to supply clean air into a room, and discharging the filtered carbon dioxide to the outside, an outdoor unit configured to have an oxygen generator for separating oxygen from outdoor air introduced from the outside to supply the separated oxygen into the room, and discharging residues from which the oxygen is separated to the outside; and a processor configured to control the carbon dioxide remover and the oxygen generator to discharge the filtered carbon dioxide and the residues to the outdoor together. According to the disclosure, by first removing the carbon dioxide from the room and then discharging the carbon dioxide and the residues while operating the oxygen generator, a piping installation operation by a simple piping structure as well as an efficient operation is possible.

Disclosed is an air conditioner for creating a comfortable indoor environment. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit configured to have a carbon dioxide remover for filtering carbon dioxide from indoor air to supply clean air into a room, and discharging the filtered carbon dioxide to the outside, an outdoor unit configured to have an oxygen generator for separating oxygen from outdoor air introduced from the outside to supply the separated oxygen into the room, and discharging residues from which the oxygen is separated to the outside; and a processor configured to control the carbon dioxide remover and the oxygen generator to discharge the filtered carbon dioxide and the residues to the outdoor together. According to the disclosure, by first removing the carbon dioxide from the room and then discharging the carbon dioxide and the residues while operating the oxygen generator, a piping installation operation by a simple piping structure as well as an efficient operation is possible.

An air purifying system includes: a carbon dioxide remover including first and second spaces partitioned by a gas permeable membrane with 50 nm or less diameter micropores; a feed passage leading to-be-purified air from a room to the first space; a supply passage supplying clean gas having lower carbon dioxide and higher oxygen concentrations than the to-be-purified air to the second space; a discharge passage discharging, from the second space, mixed gas; a return passage leading purified air from the first space into the room, the purified air resulting from removing carbon dioxide from the to-be-purified air; and adjusting equipment adjusting a gas pressure in the first and second spaces to be substantially equal to each other. The to-be-purified air flows in the first space along a surface of the gas permeable membrane, and the clean gas flows in the second space along a surface of the gas permeable membrane.

An air purifying system includes: a carbon dioxide remover including first and second spaces partitioned by a gas permeable membrane with 50 nm or less diameter micropores; a feed passage leading to-be-purified air from a room to the first space; a supply passage supplying clean gas having lower carbon dioxide and higher oxygen concentrations than the to-be-purified air to the second space; a discharge passage discharging, from the second space, mixed gas; a return passage leading purified air from the first space into the room, the purified air resulting from removing carbon dioxide from the to-be-purified air; and adjusting equipment adjusting a gas pressure in the first and second spaces to be substantially equal to each other. The to-be-purified air flows in the first space along a surface of the gas permeable membrane, and the clean gas flows in the second space along a surface of the gas permeable membrane.

A living atmosphere control system is provided with a primary living area, a green cell containing plants consisting of Boston fern, aloe vera, areca palm, peace lily, and garden mums, at least one inlet configured for transporting oxygen from said green cell into said living area, and at least one outlet configured to transport carbon dioxide from said living area to said dehumidifying coils.