CFD modelization of Legionella’s atmospheric dispersion in the explosive outbreak in Murcia.
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Sánchez Kaiser, Antonio; Zamora Parra, Blas; Viedma Robles, Antonio; Sánchez Fernández, Francisco; Hernández Jiménez, Mónica; [et al.]Grupo de investigación
Mecánica de Fluidos e Ingeniería TérmicaÁrea de conocimiento
Mecánica de FluidosPatrocinadores
This research is founded by the Research Projects ENE2007-68106-CO2-02, ENE2010- 21679-C02-01 of the National Plan of R+D (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain).Fecha de publicación
2015-09Cita bibliográfica
SÁNCHEZ KAISER, Antonio et al. CFD modelization of Legionella’s atmospheric dispersion in the explosive outbreak in Murcia. En: 17th IAHR International Conference on Cooling Tower and Heat Exchanger. 7-11 September, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 2015.Palabras clave
LegionellaOutbreak
Cooling tower
Atmospheric dispersion
Drift
CFD
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Cooling towers, among other equipments, could have an important atmospheric impact, becoming a source of pollutants or biological agents. The most important, due to its frequency and importance of the outbreaks, is Legionella. Since its discovery in 1976 in Philadelphia, where the total number of cases reached more than 200 of those more than 30 died, several outbreaks have been reported causing tens of deaths. The most important one due to its spread took place in the city of Murcia (Spain), in 2001, with more than 600 cases and where 23 out of 70 investigated cooling towers were positive to Legionella Pneumophila.
In the present work, a validated numerical modelization using the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code ANSYS Fluent is employed to simulate the dispersion of the drift from the cooling tower causative of the outbreak in the real urban environment of Murcia in the days of highest emissions, which are located by means of the number of infections given by the epidemic curve. ...
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