在COVID-19大流行期间,通过过面部呼吸器来检查纳米颗粒过的研究
Junli Hao1, Rachel Passos de Oliveira Santos1,2, Gregory C Rutledge1
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
概括
早期的COVID-19面罩短缺导致N95型过面部呼吸器 (FFR) 的进口. 许多国际FFR缺乏静电过,导致过效率明显降低,并对医疗保健工作者构成风险.
科学领域:
- 环境健康 环境健康
- 材料科学 材料科学 材料科学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 由于COVID-19大流行,人们迫切需要N95型过面部呼吸器 (FFR).
- 由于美国的短缺,需要进口和紧急使用国际FFR的授权,引发了对其有效性的担忧.
- 检查这些进口呼吸器的过性能和可用性至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了描述136个进口N95型过面部呼吸器 (FFR) 的纳米颗粒过性能.
- 确定导致这些FRR中过效率差异的因素.
- 评估静电电荷在呼吸器性能中的作用.
主要方法:
- 在2020年4月1日至6月30日期间,对136种进口FRF的气溶过效率进行了测量.
- 分析了一组设备,以确定性能变化的原因.
- 过性能与FRs上存在的静电电荷水平相关.
主要成果:
- 大约42%的测试FFR的过效率高于90%,只有17%的过效率超过95%.
- 很大一部分,约35%,过效率低于80%.
- 国际FFR的表现不佳与缺乏静电过机制有关.
结论:
- FFR的过效率与它们的静电电荷有很强的相关性.
- 一些进口的FFR中没有静电电荷,这严重影响了它们过气溶的能力.
- 静电特性增强了过,特别是对于100nm以下范围的粒子,这些粒子在标准测试中并不总是被捕获.
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