TY - JOUR TI - New opportunities for ventilation assistance in buildings under Saharan climatic conditions AU - Kaoulal Rabéa AU - Bekkouche Sidi Mohammed El Amine AU - Benouaz Tayeb AU - Kherrour Sofiane JN - Thermal Science PY - 2017 VL - 21 IS - 6 SP - 2907 EP - 2918 PT - Article AB - The aim of this paper is devoted to the coupling of ventilation systems with buildings with low energy performances under a specific Saharan climate. In the second part, the objective is to diagnose and quantify energy consumptions due to the ventilation of a real residential building in Ghardaia site. As result, ventilation system can bring a positive support to the thermos-aeraulic comfort by controlling the mass flow rate of the air entering to the heated or/and cooled building zone. Heat losses due to the ventilation system represent 4.75% of the total losses; the provided heat exchange in this case requires an additional consumption of around 6.6058% of the total energy needs.