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Published on: June 12, 2016
Liquid-curtain-based strategy to restrain plume during flushing
Su-Chen Wu, Meng-Yue Guo1, Ji-Xiang Wang2
1Key Laboratory of Energy Thermal Conversion and Control of Ministry of Education, School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
How to prevent the flushing-induced plume without changing people's daily habits? Enlightened by thoughts of redesigning the restroom, this article provides a redesigned toilet using liquid-curtain-based strategy and verifies its advantages from the computational fluid dynamics. Two favorable effects are spotted: (1) the liquid curtain can suppress the upward virus particles (only 1% viruses can be lifted out of the toilet) and (2) the flow distribution caused by the liquid curtain can deliver virus particles into the sewage efficiently.

