Personalized Ventilation as a Possible Strategy for Reducing Airborne Infectious Disease Transmission on Commercial Aircraft
In the last decade, there has been an increase in ease and affordability of air travel in terms of mobility for people all around the world. Airplane passengers may experience different risks of contracting airborne infectious diseases onboard aircraft, such as influenza or severe acute respiratory...
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| author | Paul Danca Costin Ioan Coşoiu Ilinca Nastase Florin Bode Matei Razvan Georgescu |
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| description | In the last decade, there has been an increase in ease and affordability of air travel in terms of mobility for people all around the world. Airplane passengers may experience different risks of contracting airborne infectious diseases onboard aircraft, such as influenza or severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2), due to nonuniform airflow patterns inside the airplane cabin or proximity to an infected person. In this paper, a novel approach for reducing the risk of contracting airborne infectious diseases is presented that uses a low-momentum personalized ventilation system with a protective role against airborne pathogens. Numerical simulations, supported by nonintrusive experimental measurements for validation purposes, were used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system. Simulation and experimental results of the low-momentum personalized ventilation system showed the formation of a microclimate around each passenger with cleaner and fresher air than produced by the general mixing ventilation systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b277101d7a2d497695ed2124e9ab653a2023-11-23T18:39:20ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172022-02-01124208810.3390/app12042088Personalized Ventilation as a Possible Strategy for Reducing Airborne Infectious Disease Transmission on Commercial AircraftPaul Danca0Costin Ioan Coşoiu1Ilinca Nastase2Florin Bode3Matei Razvan Georgescu4CAMBI Research Center, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, 021414 Bucharest, RomaniaAerodynamics and Wind Engineering Laboratory “Constantin Iamandi”, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, 020396 Bucharest, RomaniaCAMBI Research Center, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, 021414 Bucharest, RomaniaCAMBI Research Center, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, 021414 Bucharest, RomaniaCAMBI Research Center, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, 021414 Bucharest, RomaniaIn the last decade, there has been an increase in ease and affordability of air travel in terms of mobility for people all around the world. Airplane passengers may experience different risks of contracting airborne infectious diseases onboard aircraft, such as influenza or severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2), due to nonuniform airflow patterns inside the airplane cabin or proximity to an infected person. In this paper, a novel approach for reducing the risk of contracting airborne infectious diseases is presented that uses a low-momentum personalized ventilation system with a protective role against airborne pathogens. Numerical simulations, supported by nonintrusive experimental measurements for validation purposes, were used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system. Simulation and experimental results of the low-momentum personalized ventilation system showed the formation of a microclimate around each passenger with cleaner and fresher air than produced by the general mixing ventilation systems.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/4/2088low-momentum personalized ventilation systemcommercial aircraft ventilationairborne infectious disease transmissionSARS-CoV-2 |
| spellingShingle | Paul Danca Costin Ioan Coşoiu Ilinca Nastase Florin Bode Matei Razvan Georgescu Personalized Ventilation as a Possible Strategy for Reducing Airborne Infectious Disease Transmission on Commercial Aircraft Applied Sciences low-momentum personalized ventilation system commercial aircraft ventilation airborne infectious disease transmission SARS-CoV-2 |
| title | Personalized Ventilation as a Possible Strategy for Reducing Airborne Infectious Disease Transmission on Commercial Aircraft |
| title_full | Personalized Ventilation as a Possible Strategy for Reducing Airborne Infectious Disease Transmission on Commercial Aircraft |
| title_fullStr | Personalized Ventilation as a Possible Strategy for Reducing Airborne Infectious Disease Transmission on Commercial Aircraft |
| title_full_unstemmed | Personalized Ventilation as a Possible Strategy for Reducing Airborne Infectious Disease Transmission on Commercial Aircraft |
| title_short | Personalized Ventilation as a Possible Strategy for Reducing Airborne Infectious Disease Transmission on Commercial Aircraft |
| title_sort | personalized ventilation as a possible strategy for reducing airborne infectious disease transmission on commercial aircraft |
| topic | low-momentum personalized ventilation system commercial aircraft ventilation airborne infectious disease transmission SARS-CoV-2 |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/4/2088 |
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