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Numerical study of a novel hybrid ventilation system in operating rooms
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering.
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Building Technology and Design. Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9361-1796
2024 (English)In: 18th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2024 - Conference Program and Proceedings, International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate , 2024Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This study evaluated the performance of a newly proposed hybrid ventilation strategy, a temperature-controlled airflow system, in an operating room under different working conditions. The influence of obstacles and ventilation rates on air patterns and airborne contamination concentration is investigated. Numerical simulation based on computational fluid dynamics techniques was applied to obtain high-resolution whole-field flow movement and particle dispersion. The results show that obstacles like surgical lamps considerably weaken the central supply of air and introduce mixing air movement above the operating table. It is also found that due to the presence of surgical lamps, the air exchange rate should be increased to obtain a similar performance as in the ideal room configuration.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate , 2024.
Keywords [en]
airflow pattern, Operating room ventilation, particle dispersion, surgical site infection
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Civil Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-367301Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85210853374OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-367301DiVA, id: diva2:1984511
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18th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2024, Honolulu, United States of America, July 7-11, 2024
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