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Area of Science:

  • Industrial Hygiene
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Occupational Health

Background:

  • Traditional "well-mixed room" two-box models are limited to scenarios without local exhaust controls.
  • Predicting contaminant concentrations is crucial for workplace safety and exposure assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present new two-box models that incorporate local exhaust controls, including outside exhaust and filtered air recirculation.
  • To develop models for both steady-state and transient conditions, accommodating cyclic and irregular emission patterns.
  • To introduce a structured calibration procedure for model validation in diverse work scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Development of new two-box models incorporating local exhaust and filtered air recirculation.
  • Inclusion of an emission fraction factor for cyclic and irregular emission patterns.
  • Introduction of variables for local control capture efficiency and filtration efficiency.
  • Presentation of a structured model calibration procedure.

Main Results:

  • New models accurately predict near and far-field concentrations with local controls.
  • Models accommodate scenarios with filtered exhaust returned to the workspace.
  • The emission fraction factor simplifies calculations for intermittent contaminant release.
  • Calibration procedure estimates unknown variables like generation rate and effective near-field flowrate.

Conclusions:

  • The developed two-box models offer enhanced prediction capabilities for workplace contaminant concentrations.
  • These models are applicable to scenarios with local exhaust, filtered recirculation, and intermittent emissions.
  • The structured calibration procedure ensures model adaptability and accuracy for practical industrial hygiene applications.