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Applied Thermal Engineering: Research Paper
Research Paper
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The distribution of emitted particles form a laserjet printer was studied in the breathing zone.
Effects of different ventilation configurations on the breathing zone concentration were investigated.
Mixing ventilation system has a low mean particle concentration in the breathing zone.
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history: In the present research, computational modeling of particle transport and distribution emitted from a
Received 3 February 2016 Laserjet printer was carried out in a ventilated room. A seated manikin was integrated into the study
Revised 25 April 2016 room and the manikin was evaluated in two cases: heated and unheated. Effects of different ventilation
Accepted 25 April 2016
configurations of the room on the particle distribution were studied, including three displacement
Available online 26 April 2016
ventilation systems and a mixing ventilation system. The printer was located on different sides of the
manikin and the particle concentrations in the breathing zone of the manikin due to the printer’s parti-
Keywords:
cles were evaluated in all the ventilation configurations. The averaged particle concentration in the
Printer
Ventilation
breathing zone of the manikin was calculated and validated with the experimental and numerical data
Heated manikin available in the literature. The results of the present study showed that in case of the heated manikin,
Transport the particle concentration due to the printer pollutants is significant in the breathing zone of the manikin.
Particle The results also showed that when the printer is located on the front side of the manikin, the particle con-
Distribution centration in the breathing zone is quite high in most of the used ventilation configurations. Furthermore,
it was found that the mixing ventilation system has a lower mean particle concentration in the breathing
zone compared to the most displacement ventilation systems.
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1. Introduction These particles have different patterns and effects on the breathing
zone of the human body based on the ventilation configurations
Nowadays, many people are spending the majority of their day and the location of a printer in rooms. These matters are very
times in indoor spaces and are highly affected by the emitting important to select the right ventilation systems and also the posi-
particles released from copier machines and printers [1,2]. The tion of the printer in the room. The past studies [3,4] have indi-
electronics and computer engineering systems have been exten- cated a tight relationship between the level of emitting pollutant
sively used in the mankind life since their early development. particles and the adverse health effects such as early death and
These systems emit particles in indoor places and are known as hospitalization (short term effects) plus lung cancer and cardiovas-
an active source of particle generation as these systems, mostly cular diseases (long term effects).
release volatile and semi-volatile particles while they are working. Indoor air quality (IAQ) is highly dependent on the number of
particles penetrating into the indoor places from outside or inside
⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate
spaces. In recent years, it has been indicated that the particles
University of Advanced Technology, End of Haft Bagh Highway, Kerman, Iran. emitted from printers affect the indoor air quality of offices [5,6].
E-mail addresses: m.abdolzadeh@kgut.ac.ir, mo.abdolzadeh@gmail.com General characteristics of printer’s emissions like particle concen-
(M. Abdolzadeh). tration and particle deposition rate can be experimentally
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Nomenclature
Ain inlet register area (m2) vP the particle velocity at the inlet register (s)
C particle concentration (kg/m3) V measurement volume (m3)
C0 inlet particle concentration (kg/m3) xi particle position (m)
Cc Cunningham coefficient v 02F squared airflow fluctuation velocity normal to the wall
Cva volume averaged concentration (kg/m3) (m2/s2)
Cpa plane averaged particle number concentration (kg/m3)
d Particle diameter (lm) Greek symbols
Gi Gaussian random number with zero-mean qf fluid density (kg/m3)
g gravitational acceleration (m/s2) e Turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate
k turbulent kinetic energy (m2/s2) l fluid viscosity (kg/m s)
nj the stochastic phenomenon of the Brownian diffusion k mean free path of the air molecules (lm)
n number of particles that move across the plane having tt air flow turbulent viscosity (m2/s)
an area of A
N number of injected particles Subscript
p the air pressure (pa)
m mean
Rep Reynolds number based on velocity of particles relative w wall
to air in inlet
S ratio of particle density to fluid density
p particle phase
ti the particle residence time (s) f fluid
Tf fluid absolute temperature (K)
T the sampling time (s)
T1 ambient temperature (K) Superscript
tp relaxation time (s) + dimensionless
u, v, w velocity components (m/s) Reynolds averaging
measured in an experimental enclosed box. However, this determi- A series of studies have focused on particle transport and distri-
nation of particle transportation and distribution is quite hard to bution when a manikin was present in a room. For instance, Spitzer
achieve. This issue essences using computational fluid dynamics [11] and Spitzer et al. [12] carried out some experiments to study
(CFD) as a useful tool to help understanding of the emitted pollu- the effect of particle motion on the breathing zone of a seated
tant particle behavior better. So far, many studies have been exper- breathing manikin. They revealed that the particle’s motion signif-
imentally carried out in order to clarify the printer emission icantly affects the particle concentration of the breathing zone.
characteristics. For instance, Lee et al. investigated the emissions Melikov and Kaczmarczyk [13] investigated the importance of
rate of pollutants from different types of office equipment. They the breathing zone of a thermal manikin when the indoor particles
showed that the emissions of ozone and VOC in laser printers are are inhaled. Rim and Novolselka investigated the airflow in the
significantly higher than that of ink-jet printers [7]. Kagi et al. vicinity of a human body. They considered the effects of respiration
monitored the air contamination released from a laser printer/ on the breathing zone concentration of particulate and gaseous
ink-jet printer in a room. Their results confirmed an increase of pollutants, and inhalation exposure in relation to source position
the ozone concentration and ultrafine particle numbers in the and overall airflow patterns. They indicated that the overall airflow
printing processes [8]. He conducted an experiment and measured pattern influences the inhaled particle concentrations. They also
particle number concentrations and PM2.5 emissions from printers revealed that highly mixed airflow in the space creates relatively
in a large open-plan office. They revealed that the particles gener- uniform concentration patterns in the vicinity of the occupant.
ated by printers can significantly affect the levels of sub- However, they also showed that the occupant thermal plume
micrometer particle number concentration in the office [9]. Hugo makes non-uniform concentration patterns [14]. Zukowska et al.
et al. reviewed available information on emission rates and also studied several effects such as thermal insulation, the design of
ambient concentrations of various pollutants which were related clothing and the chair, the blocking effect of tables on the thermal
to office equipment use. The evaluated office equipments were plume generated above a seated thermal manikin in a chamber
computers (desktops and notebooks), printers (laser, ink-jet and [15]. Salmanzadeh et al. studied the buoyancy driven thermal
all-in-one machines), and photocopier machines. They identified plume near a sitting heated manikin. They showed that a high con-
the toxicological substances significant in order to prepare a guide centration of suspended particles in the breathing zone is seen due
for evaluating their potential importance with respect to human to the thermal plume flow created by the temperature gradient
exposures [5]. Morawska et al. carried out an experimental adjacent to the body [16]. Li et al. investigated effect of thermal
research which determined the particle composition, particle manikin position on the characteristics of particle transport
formation mechanism, and emission rate of Laserjet printers. They and inhalation. They revealed that the manikin orientation has a
indicated that the emission rates of ultrafine particles of the significant impact on the characteristics of particle transport and
printers are directly due to the Fuser temperature. They also inhalation. They showed that for an occupant standing with its
showed that the particles are volatile and have a secondary nature, back towards the horizontal airflow, a little change in the leg
being formed in the air from volatile organic compounds posture can lead to an obvious variation in the source location of
originating from both the paper and hot toner [6]. Byeon and inhaled particles [17].
Kim investigated particle emissions for commercial color laser In the present study, particle transport and distribution emitted
printers working under different printing speeds in an experimental from a Laserjet printer in a ventilated room, which is scarce in the
chamber. They showed that the average particle number concentra- past studies, were computationally simulated using computational
tion is inversely proportional to the printing speed [10]. fluid dynamics. Combined Eulerian and Langragian methods were
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applied to simulate the airflow field and the printer particle motion head. The particle phase was assumed dilute. In the present CFD
in the room. The printer was considered as the sole source of par- analysis, the room was studied with four different ventilation
ticle generation inside the room. A seated manikin was integrated configurations, including three displacement ventilation systems
into the study room and in order to take into account the thermal as well as a mixing ventilation system shown in Figs. 1 and 2
plume generated in the vicinity of the manikin body, it was and given in Table 1.
evaluated in two cases: heated and unheated. Different ventilation
configurations for the room were studied, including three displace- 3. Governing equations and numerical methods
ment systems and a mixing ventilation system. The printer was
located on different sides of the heated manikin and then the 3.1. Fluid flow phase
particle concentration was evaluated in the breathing zone of the
manikin in all the ventilation configurations. The fluid flow and The airflow in the cubicle was simulated using the v2–f turbu-
particle motion simulations were validated by Sorenson and his lence equations [20,21] as well as the energy equation. The model
co-worker study [18] and Mar’s study [19], respectively. This study formulation has the following general form:
provides useful information on a printer emission distribution in a
ventilated room with a seated manikin inside alongside with @/ @/ @ @/
q þ qu
j C/;eff ¼ S/ ð1Þ
influence of printer location on the particle concentration in the @t @xj @xj @xj
breathing zone of the heated manikin to find the best location of
the printer in the room. where / represents the independent flow variables, C/;eff the effec-
tive diffusion coefficient, S/ the source term, q the flow density and
the bars denote the Reynolds averaging. In Table 2 the mathemati-
2. System description
cal form of each transport equation of the v2–f model are summa-
rized. p is the air pressure, lt the turbulent viscosity, S the rate of
Fig. 1 shows the schematic of the ventilated room used in this
strain, f a part of the v02 source term and Tl the turbulent time scale.
research. A cubicle with dimensions of 1.8 2.2 2.2 m was
The appropriate boundary conditions of turbulence variables
chosen and a seated female manikin was placed at the middle of
near the walls are as follows:
the cubicle. It should be mentioned that the manikin geometry
was borrowed from the database (http://www.ie.dtu.dk/manikin) k
addressed in Sorenson and Voigt study [18]. A Laserjet printer k ¼ v 02 ¼ 0; e ¼ 2t ð2Þ
y2p
was used in this study and it was located 0.4 m away from the
manikin and 0.75 m from the ground. To evaluate particle concen- yp is the distance from the cell center to the wall.
tration in the breathing zone, an area of 0.07 0.07 m2 was In this study, commercial CFD software, FLUENT (version 6.2),
selected in the front of manikin face and the mean concentration was used to predict the turbulent airflow. The v2–f model used in
of passed particles across this area was calculated. The emission this study is based on Davidson et al. [21] study Turbulent inten-
of printer particles was considered as a surface injecting source sity, temperature, and velocity were considered 30%, 20 °C, and
and released from an area of 0.09 0.09 m2 above the printer 0.2 m/s, respectively, in the inlet registers. The manikin body’s
Table 1 Table 3
Configurations of different ventilation systems used in this study. Particle characteristics released from the printer.
Table 2
Coefficients and source terms in Eq. (1).
Continuity 1 0 0
X-Component of momentum U tt þ t q1 @p @
@x þ @x tt @u @ @v
@x þ @y tt @x þ @z ðtt @z Þ
@ @w
Y-Component of momentum V tt þ t q1 @p @
tt @x þ @y@ tt @@yv þ @z@ tt @w
@u
@y þ @x @z
Z-Component of momentum W tt þ t tt @@yv þ @x@ tt @u
q1 @p @y þ @z tt @z
@ @ @w
@z bgðT f T 1 Þ þ @y
Energy Tf kf þ tt=rT 0
Turbulent kinetic energy (k) K tt =rk;t þ t Gk e
Turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate (e) E tt =re;t þ t ðC 0e1 Gk C e2 eÞ=T l
Wall normal turbulence fluctuation to kinetic energy (uÞ ðv02 =kÞ tt =ru þ t 2 @k @ u
a t þ tt =rk;t Þ @x
ð p þ Su
k j @xj
pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
L2 Da a ¼ 1; Gk ¼ tt S2 ; S ¼ Sij Sij ; Su ¼ ð1 ap Þf w þ ap f h Gk u=k.
pffiffi
f h ¼ T1l C 1 1 þ Gek ðu 2=3Þ; f w ¼ uke T l ¼ max ke ; C T me .
3=2
L ¼ C L max k e ; C g te1=4 ; P k ¼ 2C l v02 TS2ij .
3=4
qffiffiffi
tt ¼ C l ; ku T l ; C 0e1 ¼ 1:44 1 þ 0:04ð1 ap Þ u1 .
C e2 ¼ 1:83; C 1 ¼ 1:7; C 2 ¼ 1:2; C l ¼ 0:22; C L ¼ 0:161; C g ¼ 90; C T ¼ 6; rk;t ¼ 1; re;t ¼ 1:22; ru;t ¼ 1; p ¼ 3.
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Table 4
Checking the solution gride dependency.
was selected based on the maximum air velocity created above the
duj
p 1 þ 0:15Re0:687
d
5:188v 1=2 d
ij
printer head due to the released heat of the printer while is print- ¼ ujf upj þ ujf upj
ing and it was found doing a separate simulation of the air above
dt sp Sdðdlk dkl Þ
1=4
Fig. 3. Velocity distribution (m/s) in the mid plane of the cubicle. (a) Unheated manikin. (b) Heated manikin in System (IV).
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Velocity Velocity
Temperature Temperature
(a) (b)
Fig. 4. Vertical Velocity (m/s) and Temperature (°C) distributions around the manikin body (a) present study (b) Sorenson and Voigt [18] study.
!1=2
flow-particle slip velocity. The first term on the right-hand side of 216 vr T
Eq. (4) stands for the Stokes drag. Here, sp is the Stokes relaxation nj ðtÞ ¼ Gi ð7Þ
p q f d5 S2 C c Dt
time and is as follows [22,23]:
2 The fourth term in Eq. (4) is particle gravitational force.
d SC c
sp ¼ ð5Þ To calculate the particle concentration in the room as well as
18v
the concentration in the breathing zone of the manikin due to
Cc is the Stokes–Cunningham correction factor which modifies the the printer particle generation, plane and volume averaged particle
drag force exerted to ultrafine particles due to slip and is: number concentrations are obtained. The method of Hardalupas
and Taylor [25] implemented by Zhu et al. [26] was used to calcu-
k 0:8 late the volume averaged concentration. Based on this method, the
Cc ¼ 1 þ 2:514 þ 0:55d=k ð6Þ
d e particle number concentration is as follows:
The second term on the right right-hand side of Eq. (4) presents Pn
i¼1 t i
the contribution of the Saffman lift force. The third term in Eq. (4), Cva ¼ ð8Þ
VT
nj(t), represents the stochastic phenomenon of the Brownian diffu-
sion. This force is modeled by a Gaussian random number with where n is the number of particles that move across the measure-
zero-mean, unit variance, Gi, as [24]: ment volume V, and ti is the particle residence time in the
Fig. 5. Vertical velocity (m/s) distribution above the manikin head (a) experimental study [18] (b) numerical study [18] (c) present simulation.
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(a)
Present Study
Experiment [27]
(b)
(c)
Fig. 6. (a) Experimental chamber, (b) comparison of particle concentration in the mid-plane of chamber at different x-locations and (c) deposition fraction in the chamber vs.
different particle sizes with the experimental data [27].
measurement volume, and T is the sampling time. The plane averaged the calculated concentrations in the breathing zone. The normalized
particle number concentration, Cpa, is calculated as follows: volume averaged concentration is given as:
Pn
Pn ti =V
1=v pi C þv a ¼ i¼1 t ð10Þ
C pa ¼ i¼1 ð9Þ N=Ain v in
AT
The plane averaged concentration is as follows:
where n is the number of particles that move across the plane Pn
i¼1 1=v i
p
A
having an area of A with a normal velocity vp. It should be stated C þpa ¼ ð11Þ
that the average concentration at the inlet was used to normalize N=Ain v tin
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(a)
Manikin head
V(m/s)
V(m/s) V(m/s)
[19] [16]
where N is number of injected particles and vP is the particle The particle equation of motion was solved using the discrete
velocity at the inlet register with an area of Ain. phase of FLUENT software. The concentration equations listed
above were solved using a homemade computer code written in
MATLAB. This code was later linked to the discrete phase model
of FLUENT to obtain the particle concentration in the breathing
Numerical Study[16] zone.
Experiment [19]
Present study
In this section, first, the fluid flow inside the cubicle is evalu-
ated. The fluid flow was investigated in two cases: heated and
unheated manikins. Fig. 3(a) shows the velocity distribution inside
the cubicle when the manikin is unheated. In this case, the energy
equation is not solved. As shown in this figure, the fluid flow
entered from the inlet register is directly moving upward and the
maximum velocity location is away from the manikin. In case of
the heated manikin, the buoyancy force is added to the momentum
equation due to the temperature difference between the manikin
Fig. 8. Comparison of normalized plane average concentrations of the manikin
and the ambient air. In this case, shown in Fig. 3(b), the maximum
breathing zone, between the present simulation and the numerical [16] and the air velocity is seen above the manikin head and a secondary flow is
experimental studies [19]. created over the head. To check the simulation results accuracy,
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Unheated Heated
t=25s
t=75s
t=130s
Fig. 9. Particle dispersion in the cubicle at different time histories for the unheated and heated manikins in System IV.
the present study was compared with Sorenson and Voigt [18] this figure, the present simulation predicts the vertical velocity
numerical and experimental results. It should be mentioned that with a sufficient accuracy compared to the experimental data.
in their study the inlet was on the bottom side and the outlet
was from the cubicle ceiling. The flow velocity was 0.02 m/s and 4.2. Particle trajectories and distribution
its turbulent intensity was 30%. The temperatures of the walls
and the manikin were assumed equal. It should be mentioned that 4.2.1. Validation of the particle model with no manikin
the Sorenson geometry as well as the its boundary conditions were In this section, the particle phase is validated using an experi-
simulated and then the results of the simulation were compared mental data which were measured in an experimental chamber
with the measured data The comparisons of the velocity and tem- [27] The dimensions of the chamber were 0.4 0.4 0.8 m
perature around the manikin are shown in Fig. 4(a) and (b). As (Fig. 6(a)) and the inlet velocity was 0.225 m/s. Particle diameter
shown in these figures, the present study predicts the velocity and density were 10 lm and 1400 kg/m3, respectively, and the par-
and temperature with a sufficient accuracy compared to the Soren- ticles were released from the inlet register. Fig. 6(b) shows the
son et al. numerical results. Fig. 5 shows the comparison of the ver- comparison of particle concentrations vs. the chamber height in
tical flow velocity above the manikin head with the numerical and different x locations of the chamber. As shown in this figure, the
experimental results of Sorenson and his coworkers. As shown in v2–f model along with the particle model predict the particle distri-
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Fig. 11. Velocity distributions (m/s) in the mid plane of cubicle in Systems (a) III (b) II and (c) I.
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Fig. 12. Normalized particle concentration of the breathing zone in all the ventilation systems – printer located in the front of the manikin.
1.2
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
BACK FRONT LEFT RIGHT
Fig. 14. Normalized particle concentration in the breathing zone for different
printer positions in all the ventilation systems (I, II, III, and IV).
Fig. 15. Velocity distributions (a) in the mid plane of cubicle in x direction (b) the plane in the right of the manikin (c) the plane in the left of the manikin.
the breathing zone among all the systems is seen in the system (IV) move above the manikin head and suck the particle from the prin-
(Fig. 4). This is due to the inlet air register which is located in the ter head and deliver them to the outlet register.
front of manikin and creates the maximum air movement in the
breathing zone. This speed is decreased in systems III, II, and I, 4.2.4.2. Printer located on the other sides of the manikin. In this sec-
respectively. System III also has a high air speed in the breathing tion, the printer is located on the other sides of the manikin
zone, but still lower than system IV as the air register in this sys- (Fig. 13) and then the particle concentration of the breathing zone
tem does not directly blow the air through the breathing zone area. in each ventilation configuration is obtained and compared with
System (I) has the lowest air movement in the breathing zone as one another in order to find the best printer location in the corre-
the inlet register is located in the back side of manikin close to sponding configuration. The particle concentrations of the breath-
the ground and in this case the air movement in the breathing zone ing zone in all the configurations are shown in Fig. 14. As shown in
is mostly due to the thermal heat plume generated around the this figure, the system (IV) has the maximum and minimum con-
manikin body. The particle concentration distributions in the centrations among all the configurations when the printer is
breathing zone of all the configurations are shown in Fig. 12. As located in the front and back sides of the manikin. This fact clearly
it was expected from the flow analysis of all the systems and says that the printer should be located in the back side of the man-
shown in this figure, system IV and system I have the highest ikin in System (IV) as in this case the released particles do not cross
and lowest particle concentrations, respectively, in the breathing the breathing zone and make this area safe from the particle pollu-
zone of the manikin. This matter is mostly due to the air speed tion. This figure also shows that system (I) has the maximum par-
in the breathing zone. System IV has the maximum particle con- ticle concentration when the printer is located on the right, left,
centration in the breathing zone due to the air register location and back sides of the manikin. The large particle concentration in
which is the worst place for the inlet register among all the sys- the back side of the manikin is due to the printer location which
tems. System I show a good performance to remove the particle directs the emitted particle into the air and they cross the breath-
released from the front of manikin without directing them toward ing zone in the way of approaching the outlet register. It is also
the breathing zone. This fact is due to the location of inlet air reg- revealed that the right and left sides of the manikin also are not
ister on the back side of the manikin which makes the air flow to good places for the printer as the released particles from these
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0.8 into the study room and it was evaluated in two cases: heated
Mean normal concentraon
0.7 and unheated. To find the best place of the printer with the lowest
0.6 particle concentration of the breathing zone in the study room, the
printer was located on different sides of the manikin and the
0.5
breathing zone particle concentrations of the heated manikin were
0.4
evaluated in all the ventilation configurations. The results of the
0.3 present simulation show that the printer’s particle emission highly
0.2 affects the enhancement of particle concentration in the breathing
0.1 zone of the heated manikin. It was also revealed that when the
0
printer is located in the back side of the heated manikin, the min-
System I System IV System II System III imum particle concentration of the breathing zone is seen in all the
(a) ventilation configurations which suggests the best area of the prin-
ter location. This trend of the concentration in the breathing zone
0.9
is completely opposite when the printer is located in front of the
0.8
Normalized cincentraon
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