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Role of pathogen-laden expiratory droplet dispersion and natural ventilation explaining a COVID-19 outbreak in a coach bus
The influencing mechanism of droplet transmissions inside crowded and poorly ventilated buses on infection risks of respiratory diseases is still unclear. Based on experiments of one-infecting-seven COVID-19 outbreak with an index patient at bus rear, we conducted CFD simulations to investigate inte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9122785/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35615259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109160 |
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author | Luo, Qiqi Ou, Cuiyun Hang, Jian Luo, Zhiwen Yang, Hongyu Yang, Xia Zhang, Xuelin Li, Yuguo Fan, Xiaodan |
author_facet | Luo, Qiqi Ou, Cuiyun Hang, Jian Luo, Zhiwen Yang, Hongyu Yang, Xia Zhang, Xuelin Li, Yuguo Fan, Xiaodan |
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description | The influencing mechanism of droplet transmissions inside crowded and poorly ventilated buses on infection risks of respiratory diseases is still unclear. Based on experiments of one-infecting-seven COVID-19 outbreak with an index patient at bus rear, we conducted CFD simulations to investigate integrated effects of initial droplet diameters(tracer gas, 5 μm, 50 μm and 100 μm), natural air change rates per hour(ACH = 0.62, 2.27 and 5.66 h(−1) related to bus speeds) and relative humidity(RH = 35% and 95%) on pathogen-laden droplet dispersion and infection risks. Outdoor pressure difference around bus surfaces introduces natural ventilation airflow entering from bus-rear skylight and leaving from the front one. When ACH = 0.62 h(−1)(idling state), the 30-min-exposure infection risk(TIR) of tracer gas is 15.3%(bus rear) - 11.1%(bus front), and decreases to 3.1%(bus rear)-1.3%(bus front) under ACH = 5.66 h(−1)(high bus speed).The TIR of large droplets(i.e., 100 μm/50 μm) is almost independent of ACH, with a peak value(∼3.1%) near the index patient, because over 99.5%/97.0% of droplets deposit locally due to gravity. Moreover, 5 μm droplets can disperse further with the increasing ventilation. However, TIR for 5 μm droplets at ACH = 5.66 h(−1) stays relatively small for rear passengers(maximum 0.4%), and is even smaller in the bus middle and front(<0.1%). This study verifies that differing from general rooms, most 5 μm droplets deposit on the route through the long-and-narrow bus space with large-area surfaces(L∼11.4 m). Therefore, tracer gas can only simulate fine droplet with little deposition but cannot replace 5–100 μm droplet dispersion in coach buses. |
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spelling | pubmed-91227852022-05-21 Role of pathogen-laden expiratory droplet dispersion and natural ventilation explaining a COVID-19 outbreak in a coach bus Luo, Qiqi Ou, Cuiyun Hang, Jian Luo, Zhiwen Yang, Hongyu Yang, Xia Zhang, Xuelin Li, Yuguo Fan, Xiaodan Build Environ Article The influencing mechanism of droplet transmissions inside crowded and poorly ventilated buses on infection risks of respiratory diseases is still unclear. Based on experiments of one-infecting-seven COVID-19 outbreak with an index patient at bus rear, we conducted CFD simulations to investigate integrated effects of initial droplet diameters(tracer gas, 5 μm, 50 μm and 100 μm), natural air change rates per hour(ACH = 0.62, 2.27 and 5.66 h(−1) related to bus speeds) and relative humidity(RH = 35% and 95%) on pathogen-laden droplet dispersion and infection risks. Outdoor pressure difference around bus surfaces introduces natural ventilation airflow entering from bus-rear skylight and leaving from the front one. When ACH = 0.62 h(−1)(idling state), the 30-min-exposure infection risk(TIR) of tracer gas is 15.3%(bus rear) - 11.1%(bus front), and decreases to 3.1%(bus rear)-1.3%(bus front) under ACH = 5.66 h(−1)(high bus speed).The TIR of large droplets(i.e., 100 μm/50 μm) is almost independent of ACH, with a peak value(∼3.1%) near the index patient, because over 99.5%/97.0% of droplets deposit locally due to gravity. Moreover, 5 μm droplets can disperse further with the increasing ventilation. However, TIR for 5 μm droplets at ACH = 5.66 h(−1) stays relatively small for rear passengers(maximum 0.4%), and is even smaller in the bus middle and front(<0.1%). This study verifies that differing from general rooms, most 5 μm droplets deposit on the route through the long-and-narrow bus space with large-area surfaces(L∼11.4 m). Therefore, tracer gas can only simulate fine droplet with little deposition but cannot replace 5–100 μm droplet dispersion in coach buses. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-07-15 2022-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9122785/ /pubmed/35615259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109160 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Luo, Qiqi Ou, Cuiyun Hang, Jian Luo, Zhiwen Yang, Hongyu Yang, Xia Zhang, Xuelin Li, Yuguo Fan, Xiaodan Role of pathogen-laden expiratory droplet dispersion and natural ventilation explaining a COVID-19 outbreak in a coach bus |
title | Role of pathogen-laden expiratory droplet dispersion and natural ventilation explaining a COVID-19 outbreak in a coach bus |
title_full | Role of pathogen-laden expiratory droplet dispersion and natural ventilation explaining a COVID-19 outbreak in a coach bus |
title_fullStr | Role of pathogen-laden expiratory droplet dispersion and natural ventilation explaining a COVID-19 outbreak in a coach bus |
title_full_unstemmed | Role of pathogen-laden expiratory droplet dispersion and natural ventilation explaining a COVID-19 outbreak in a coach bus |
title_short | Role of pathogen-laden expiratory droplet dispersion and natural ventilation explaining a COVID-19 outbreak in a coach bus |
title_sort | role of pathogen-laden expiratory droplet dispersion and natural ventilation explaining a covid-19 outbreak in a coach bus |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9122785/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35615259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109160 |
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