Title
Van der Waals and ideal gas models for compressibility by means of pressure in pneumatic pipes from 1 to 100 Lpm
Date Issued
01 December 2004
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Universidade Sao Paulo
Abstract
The general aim is to develop a Venturi flow sensor for the inspiration line to be used in Mechanical Ventilation. This work is an advance for the development and construction of this sensor and to explain some of its characteristics in mechanical ventilation. The Mach number in this sensor grows with the pipe diameter, but it is less than 0.3 to diameters higher than 3mm, and according to the traditional bibliography [9] it can be used as incompressible fluid for the design. For this reason the simulations were done between 2:1 and 6:1 to simulation pressures from 15 to 16.5 Psi (Mechanical Ventilation range). The results of these simulations are: it needs to consider the gas compressibility levels for Mach numbers smaller than 03 because the error of flow measure can be between 5 and 15% for the pattern of ideal gas and enter 7.5 to 20% for the Van Der Waals model [6] above the incompressibility pattern, and these results were used for the construction of the small reduction the Venturi's pipe from 3 to 78 Lpm, taken from absolute pressure to complete the norm ISO9360 [5].
Start page
2034
End page
2037
Volume
26 III
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería médica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-11144295752
ISSN of the container
05891019
Conference
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings - Conference Proceedings - 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2004
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