CFD analysis of Thermal Comfort & Contaminant removal from a typical Hospital Operation Theater

Alam, Tousif Bin

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dc.contributor.author	Alam, Tousif Bin
dc.date.accessioned	2021-10-12T09:44:35Z
dc.date.available	2021-10-12T09:44:35Z
dc.date.issued	2012-11-15
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1191
dc.description	Supervised by DR. A. K. M. Sadrul Islam Professor Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering (MCE), Islamic University of Technology (IUT) Board Bazar, Gazipur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This Thesis paper presents CFD analysis of Thermal Comfort & Contaminant removal from a typical Hospital Operation Theater. This is a three dimensional analysis. The operation theater model includes a patient lying on an operating table, four surgical staff members standing around, and surgical lights above the patient. Cold clean air is supplied to the room through high sidewall grilles and exhausted through low sidewall grilles on the opposite wall. Steady state heat and mass transfer in the room are simulated by employing computational fluid dynamics modeling approach. Solutions of the distribution of airflow velocity, temperature, pressure, relative humidity, and contaminant concentration are presented and discussed. The predicted mean vote (PMV) is calculated for assessing thermal comfort of the occupants. The contaminant removal effectiveness (CRE) and the mean contaminant concentration in the breathing zone are used to assess the ventilation performance of the room. Effects of horizontal locations of supply and exhaust grilles on thermal comfort and contaminant removal are explored. Regression models for thermal comfort and contaminant removal as functions of these locations are built for design optimization. It is found that an overall better performance can be achieved by placing the supply grilles closer to the vertical centerline of the wall while the location of the exhaust grilles is somewhat insignificant.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering (MPE),Islamic University of Technology(IUT), Board Bazar, Gazipur, Bangladesh	en_US
dc.title	CFD analysis of Thermal Comfort & Contaminant removal from a typical Hospital Operation Theater	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US