Kitchen ventilation

Kitchen ventilation is the branch of ventilation that specialises in the treatment of air from kitchens. Kitchen ventilation presents the problems of grease, smoke and odours not usually found in other ventilation systems.

Equipment used in kitchen ventilation uses an extractor hood or canopy and a filtering system. The fan for the ventilation system may be located within the kitchen or in the duct system nearby.

An adequate kitchen ventilation system should achieve the following objectives:

The main factors that need to be taken into account when designing a kitchen ventilation system are:

The most common types of grease filters used in professional kitchens are:

The general parameters of what is considered comfortable in a kitchen are:

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