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CFD Investigation of Room Ventilation for Improved Operation of a Downdraft Table: Novel Concepts

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Pages 583-591 | Published online: 23 Oct 2007
 

We report a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study of containment of airborne hazardous materials in a ventilated room containing a downdraft table. Specifically, we investigated the containment of hazardous airborne material obtainable under a range of ventilation configurations. The desirable ventilation configuration should ensure excellent containment of the hazardous material released from the workspace above the downdraft table. However, increased airflow raises operation costs, so the airflow should be as low as feasible without compromising containment. The airflow is modeled using Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes equations with a high Reynolds number k-epsilon turbulence model. CFD predictions are examined for several ventilation configurations. Based on this study, we find that substantial improvements in containment are possible concurrent with reduction in airflow, compared with the existing design of ventilation configuration.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was partly supported by the Norwegian Research Council through the Strategic Institute Program at the Norwegian Building Research Institute, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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