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CKV Design Guides

These design guides provide information that will help achieve optimum performance and energy efficiency in commercial kitchen ventilation systems.


Design Guide 1
Improving Commercial Kitchen Ventilation System Performance
Selecting and Sizing Exhaust Hoods [Download] (990 KB)
Design Guide 1 covers the fundamentals of kitchen exhaust, and provides design guidance and examples. This guide was made possible by the efforts and support of Southern California Edison.

Design Guide 2
Improving Commercial Kitchen Ventilation System Performance
Optimizing Makeup Air [Download] (1.4 MB)
Design Guide 2 augments Design Guide 1, with an emphasis on the makeup air side of the equation. This guide was previously published by the California Energy Commission under the title Improving Commercial Kitchen Ventilation Performance. The guide is based on a PIER research project conducted by the CKV Lab in Chicago. A copy of the final report from the project is available here.