Computer enabled system for assessing optimum airflow for medical facilities and secure rooms and offices
OwnerAlexander J. Willmaninventor
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Abstract
A computer and software enabled system is provided for real time and ongoing assessment and adjustment of current air quality and airflow within and exiting a room, such as an operating room or SCIF. Using software operating to the task of assessing existing airflow patterns in rooms and to determine from an optimal CFD model and a real time current CFD model one or more adjustments of the characteristics of incoming and outgoing airflow, to substantially match current air flows to that of the optimal CFD model.
Claims16
A system for maintaining an optimal airflow within a room having an incoming air supply from an heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system communicated through an airflow inlet, and having an exiting air flow from an airflow outlet, comprising:
- a processor, and
- a non-transitory, computer readable medium communicably coupled to the processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- for the room supplied with the incoming air supply, generating an optimal airflow model for each respective room using software operating to compute an optimal fluid dynamics model from initial airflow characteristics of the room and store said optimal fluid dynamics model in said computer readable medium;
- employing sensors in communication with the exiting airflow from the room to ascertain current airflow characteristics of said room;
- employing the current airflow characteristics in a secondary computational fluid dynamics analysis to ascertain a current fluid dynamics model for the room;
- calculating changes to said incoming air supply which are required to change the current fluid dynamics model to match the optimal fluid dynamics model;
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- communicating optimization commands necessary to the HVAC system to cause it to provide said changes to said incoming air supply to said room, whereby said airflow through said room matches that of said optimal fluid dynamics model.
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