An air distribution optimization of hospital wards for minimizing cross-infection

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

卷:279

Article

Wang, Ji-Xiang¹  Cao, Xiang²  Chen, Yong-Ping^1,2,3 

[1] Yangzhou Univ, Coll Elect Energy & Power Engn, Yangzhou 225009, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

[2] Southeast Univ, Sch Energy & Environm, Minist Educ, Key Lab Energy Thermal Convers & Control, Nanjing 210096, Peoples R China

[3] Suzhou Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Environm Sci & Engn, Jiangsu Key Lab Micro & Nano Heat Fluid Flow Tech, Suzhou 215009, Peoples R China

关键词: Coronavirus;    Air distribution;    Cross infection;    Computational fluid flow;    Discrete phase model;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123431

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Currently, the 2019-CoV-2 has been raging across the world for months, causing massive death, huge panic, chaos, and immeasurable economic loss. Such emerging epidemic viruses come again and again over years, leading to similar destructive consequences. Air-borne transmission among humans is the main reason for the rapid spreading of the virus. Blocking the air-borne transmission should be a significant measure to suppress the spreading of the pandemic. Considering the hospital is the most probable place to occur massive cross-infection among patients as emerging virus usually comes in a disguised way, an air distribution optimization of a general three-bed hospital ward in China is carried out in this paper. Using the Eulerian-Lagrangian method, sneeze process from patients who are assumed to be the virus carrier, which is responsible for a common event to trigger cross-infection, is simulated. The trajectory of the released toxic particle and the probability of approaching others in the same ward are calculated. Two evaluation parameter, total maximum time (TMT) and overall particle concentration (OPC) to reflect the particle mobility and probability to cause cross-infection respectively, are developed to evaluate the proposed ten air distributions in this paper. A relatively optimized air distribution proposal with the lowest TMT and OPC is distinguished through a three-stage analysis. Results show that a bottom-in and top-out air distribution proposal is recommended to minimize cross-infections. (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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