TY - GEN
T1 - Improvement of the indoor environment and airborne contamination control in an operating room
AU - Wang, Fu Jen
AU - Yau, Yat Huang
AU - Ng, Wen Bin
AU - Lai, Chi Ming
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Modern operating rooms are increasingly turning to contamination control by ventilating technology for the infectious control. The objective of this study is to present the strategic approach on performance improvement of the ventilating system for a hospital operating room under limit budget. A physical partition curtain has been proposed and conducted around the high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter of an operating room to validate the improvement of air distribution and contamination control. Numerical simulation of a full-scale operating room has been carried out at a district hospital. The results from computer simulation revealed that the improvement of airflow could be achieved satisfactorily by the application of a physical partition curtain at the length of 1.2 m. Ventilation performance could be assessed extensively not only by airflow distribution and concentration profile but also by the calculation of contamination concentration decay.
AB - Modern operating rooms are increasingly turning to contamination control by ventilating technology for the infectious control. The objective of this study is to present the strategic approach on performance improvement of the ventilating system for a hospital operating room under limit budget. A physical partition curtain has been proposed and conducted around the high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter of an operating room to validate the improvement of air distribution and contamination control. Numerical simulation of a full-scale operating room has been carried out at a district hospital. The results from computer simulation revealed that the improvement of airflow could be achieved satisfactorily by the application of a physical partition curtain at the length of 1.2 m. Ventilation performance could be assessed extensively not only by airflow distribution and concentration profile but also by the calculation of contamination concentration decay.
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U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.255-260.1532
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.255-260.1532
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959801419
SN - 9783037851395
T3 - Advanced Materials Research
SP - 1532
EP - 1536
BT - Advances in Civil Engineering
T2 - 2011 International Conference on Civil Engineering and Building Materials, CEBM 2011
Y2 - 29 July 2011 through 31 July 2011
ER -