• Estimating the impact of indoor relative humidity on SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission risk using a new modification of the Wells-Riley model 

      Aganovic, Amar; Bi, Yang; Cao, Guangyu; Drangsholt, Finn; Kurnitski, Jarek; Wargocki, Pawel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-23)
      A novel modified version of the Wells-Riley model was used to estimate the impact of relative humidity (RH) on the removal of respiratory droplets containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus by deposition through gravitational settling and its inactivation by biological decay; the effect of RH on susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 was not considered. These effects were compared with the removal achieved by increased ...
    • Experimental study on the exposure level of surgical staff to SARS-CoV-2 in operating rooms with mixing ventilation under negative pressure 

      Bi, Yang; Aganovic, Amar; Mathisen, Hans Martin; Cao, Guangyu (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-21)
      The purpose of this study was to reveal the exposure level of surgical staff to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from the patient's nose and wound during operations on COVID-19 patients. The tracer gas N<sub>2</sub>O is used to simulate SARS-CoV-2 from the patient's nose and wound. In this study, concentration levels of tracer gas were measured in the breathing zones of ...
    • Experimental Study on the Surgical Microenvironment in an Operating Room with Mixing Ventilation under Positive and Negative Pressure 

      Bi, Yang; Heggebø, Frida Josefine; Harsem, Trond Thorgeir; Mathisen, Hans Martin; Aganovic, Amar; Cao, Guangyu (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)
      Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, negative pressure operating room (NPOR) are strongly recommended to be applied to prevent spreading virus from infected patients to adjacent rooms during surgery procedures. However, there have been few experimental studies on the effect of OR pressure difference on the surgical microenvironment. This study aims to experimentally investigate the airflow distribution ...
    • Experimental study on the surgical microenvironment in an operating room with mixing ventilation under positive and negative pressure 

      Bi, Yang; Josefine Heggebø, Frida; Harsem, Trond Thorgeir; Mathisen, Hans Martin; Aganovic, Amar; Cao, Guangyu (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)
      Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, negative pressure operating room (NPOR) are strongly recommended to be applied to prevent spreading virus from infected patients to adjacent rooms during surgery procedures. However, there have been few experimental studies on the effect of OR pressure difference on the surgical microenvironment. This study aims to experimentally investigate the airflow distribution ...
    • Modeling the impact of indoor relative humidity on the infection risk of five respiratory airborne viruses 

      Aganovic, Amar; Bi, Yang; Cao, Guangyu; Kurnitski, Jarek; Wargocki, Pawel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-07)
      With a modified version of the Wells-Riley model, we simulated the size distribution and dynamics of five airborne viruses (measles, influenza, SARS-CoV-2, human rhinovirus, and adenovirus) emitted from a speaking person in a typical residential setting over a relative humidity (RH) range of 20–80% and air temperature of 20–25 °C. Besides the size transformation of virus-containing droplets due to ...