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- Title
A New Idea That Is 40 Years Old--Air Curtain Hospital Operating Room Systems.
- Authors
Cook, Gerry; Int-Hout, Dan
- Abstract
Currently accepted best design practice for controlling airborne particulates in the hospital operating room relies on airflow type (laminar) and direction (down from ceiling). This is typically in the form of large arrays of laminar diffusers. These arrays are limited, or impacted, by ΔT and the need to have other ceiling-mounted equipment in the operating room. The industry could benefit from a scalable pre-engineered system that overcomes these inherent limitations. Such systems could be qualified by actual microbial testing.
- Subjects
AIR curtains; HOSPITALS; OPERATING rooms; FLUID dynamics; AIR flow; LAMINAR flow; DIFFUSERS (Fluid dynamics); MECHANICAL engineering
- Publication
ASHRAE Transactions, 2007, Vol 113, Issue 1, p349
- ISSN
0001-2505
- Publication type
Article