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Artigo de evento 0 Citação(ões) na Scopus Exergy analysis of the human respiration under physical activity(2009-08-30) Cyro Albuquerque; PELLEGRINI, L. F.; FERREIRA, M. S.; YANAGIHARA, J. I.; OLIVEIRA, S. DE.© 2009 by ABCM.This paper presents an exergy analysis of the human body under physical activity. A model of the respiratory system and a model of the thermal system were used for this purpose. They consider heat and mass transfers in lungs, tissues and blood. Each component of those models is represented by an uniform compartment governed by equations for diffusion, convection, O2 consumption, CO2/heat generation and heat and mass transfer with the environment. The models allow the calculation of the exergy destruction in the lung and tissues, and the participation of each entropy generation mechanism in the total generation. Furthermore, a discussion is proposed regarding the efficiency of the human body under physical exercise.Artigo de evento 1 Citação(ões) na Scopus Modeling heat transfer in human arm and forearm: Effect of countercurrent heat exchange and superficial veins(2009-06-25) FERREIRA, M. S.; YANAGIHARA, J. I.Artigo de evento 3 Citação(ões) na Scopus The effect of altitude and intensity of physical activity on the exergy efficiency of respiratory system(2013-07-16) HENRIQUES, I. B.; Carlos Mady; Cyro Albuquerque; YANAGIHARA, J. I.; OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, S.The effect of altitude on exercise performance of lowlanders has long been discussed, but it is still unclear whether the performance reduction is related to inefficiency of the respiratory system, tissues or both. In the present work, exergy analysis was applied to the human body in order to compare its exergy efficiency under basal conditions and during physical activity at sea level and high altitudes for different periods of acclimatization. Two control volumes were analyzed: the respiratory system, which comprises the lungs and the airways, and the human body as a whole. In the first control volume, the exergy rates and flow rates are associated with the venous blood and the inspired air in the inlet and the arterial blood and expired air in the outlet. An internal exergy variation due to the exergy metabolism of the lung, an exergy transfer rate associated with the metabolism of the lung and the power performed by the respiratory muscles were also taken into account. Analyzing the second control volume, the exergy transferred rate to the environment due to the heat losses by convection and radiation were considered, as well as the exergy flow rate associated with respiration and transpiration. The temperatures of different parts of the body and the heat losses to the environment were obtained from a heat transfer model of the human body. The data concerning gas and blood flows were obtained from a model of the respiratory system. The last one was modified based on medical literature to simulate the response to physical activity at high altitude for different periods of acclimatization, from the first moment that the body is exposed to a high altitude environment to three months of acclimatization. The results obtained indicated that the respiratory system exergy efficiency is reduced at high altitudes and under physical activity, while the exergy efficiency of the body increases for both parameters. Concerning the acclimatization period, its influence was more pronounced in the respiratory system. It was possible to observe a decrease in the exergy efficiency of the respiratory system in the first two days. From this moment on, the efficiency increased continuously until the twentieth day, when it is stabilized and remains constant.Artigo de evento 2 Citação(ões) na Scopus The effect of carbon monoxide in the exergy behavior of lungs(2017-07-02) CENZI, J. R.; HENRIQUES, I. B.; Cyro Albuquerque; YANAGIHARA, J. I.; OLIVEIRA, S.; Carlos Mady© 2017 IMEKOThe present work evaluates the impact of carbon monoxide inhalation in the human lungs exergy behaviour for different levels of intoxications and altitude. It is significant because this substance is one of the most common air pollutants in cities and an increasing in the destroyed exergy can be associated with a reduction in lifespan. Moreover, an evaluation of the severity as a function of the city height may intensify the hazard associated with carbon monoxide. In order to evaluate these consequences, a carbon monoxide transportation model obtained in literature was used to calculate the concentrations of oxygen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the different respiratory system tissues. With the purpose to better evaluate the different levels of carbon monoxide intoxication and hemoglobin concentration (which is a function of acclimatization time) it was proposed an exergy efficiency for the lungs. From this model, it was possible to conclude that a higher level of intoxication is associated to lower exergy efficiency values. Higher hemoglobin levels when associated to carbon monoxide intoxication also results in lower efficiencies.- Thermodynamic analysis and optimization of a multi-stage compression system for CO2 injection unit: NSGA-II and gradient-based methods(2021-10-10) ALLAHYARZADEH-BIDGOLI, A.; DE MELO, P. E. B.; DEZAN, D. J.; SALTARA, F.; SALVIANO, O.; YANAGIHARA, J. I.© 2021, The Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering.The injection of CO2 into oil reservoirs is used by the oil and gas industry for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and/or the reduction of environmental impact. The compression systems used for this task work with CO2 in supercritical conditions, and the equipment used is energy intensive. The application of an optimization procedure designed to find the optimum operating conditions leads to reduced energy consumption, lower exergy destruction, and reduced CO2 emissions. First, this work presents two thermodynamic models to estimate the amount of power necessary for a multi-stage CO2 compression system in floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) using accurate polytropic relationships and equations of state. Second, a thermodynamic analysis using the first and second laws of thermodynamics is conducted to identify possible improvements in energy consumption and the sources of the compression unit’s irreversibilities. In the final step, optimization procedures, using two methods with different approaches, are implemented to minimize the total power consumption. As the number of stages and the pressure drop between them influence the total power required by the compressors, these are considered as the input parameters used to obtain the inlet pressure at each stage. Three different compositions with variations in CO2 content, i.e., pure CO2, pure CH 4, and 70% CO2 + 30% CH 4, are also investigated as three different operating scenarios. The optimal configurations and pressure ratios result in a reduction in power consumption of up to 9.65%, mitigation of CO2 emissions by up to 1.95 t/h, and savings in exergy loss of up to 23.9%, when compared with conventional operating conditions.
- A transient three-dimensional heat transfer model of the human body(2009-08-05) FERREIRA, M. S.; YANAGIHARA, J. I.The objective of this work is to develop an improved model of the human thermal system. The features included are important to solve real problems: 3D heat conduction, the use of elliptical cylinders to adequately approximate body geometry, the careful representation of tissues and important organs, and the flexibility of the computational implementation. Focus is on the passive system, which is composed by 15 cylindrical elements and it includes heat transfer between large arteries and veins. The results of thermal neutrality and transient simulations are in excellent agreement with experimental data, indicating that the model represents adequately the behavior of the human thermal system. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Modeling of heat and mass transfer in human thermal and respiratory systems and its application to engineering and medical sciences(2018-08-10) YANAGIHARA, J. I.; FERREIRA, M. S.; Cyro Albuquerque© 2018 International Heat Transfer Conference. All rights reserved.The paper summarizes the development of physiology-based models of the human thermal and respiratory systems. There is an increasing interest in the development of such models as they allow the determination of temperature, blood flow rate, contents of oxygen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in different tissues of the human body, depending on the ambient conditions and the physical activity levels. Different strategies for the geometrical modeling of the human body is presented and the simulation of the heat transfer processes in the segments representing different parts of the body, such as head, neck, trunk, arms, forearms, hands, thighs, legs and feet, will be discussed. The modeling of the mass transport and storage of gases such as O2, CO2 and CO in the blood and tissues are also discussed. These models are very useful to predict the behavior of the human body under different hazardous environmental conditions such as thermal stress, decompression accident in airplanes, or compartment fire or urban atmospheric pollution. Finally, the use of these models for the exergy analysis of human body performance under physical activities and for the assessment of the thermal comfort conditions is also considered.
- An integrated model of the thermoregulatory and respiratory systems of the human body(2020-07-05) YANAGIHARA, J. I.© 2020 Elsevier LtdThis work aims to develop a mathematical model for computing the distribution of temperature, O2, and CO2 in the human body, depending on the ambient conditions. The body is divided into segments, including layers of tissues and blood compartments, where mass and energy balances are applied. The inclusion of O2 and CO2 transfer mechanisms throughout all segments and tissues of the human body is one of the great novelties of this work. It also includes the exothermic metabolic reactions in the tissues, the transportation of O2 and CO2 by the blood, and the energy exchanged with the environment through the skin and by ventilation. The model also includes the regulation of metabolism, circulation, ventilation, and sweating, depending on the body temperature and the concentrations of O2 and CO2 in the blood. The lungs are represented by alveolar and blood compartments, with diffusion between them. Comparisons with experimental data from the existing literature show that the proposed model is suitable for representing transient exposure to cold and warm ambient temperatures, low concentration of O2, and high concentrations of CO2. In the end, some results demonstrate the effect of ambient temperature on the distribution of temperature, O2, and CO2 across segments, blood, and tissues. Shivering in a cold environment reduces the concentration of O2 and increases the concentration of CO2 in the muscles, which results in increased ventilation and blood circulation. The concentration of gases in the skin depends mainly on variations in the skin's circulation with the environment, which alters the availability of O2 and the elimination of CO2. Small variations were found in the concentrations of O2 and CO2 in the brain and lungs.
- Sensitivity analysis and optimization of a CO2 centrifugal compressor impeller with a vaneless diffuser(2021-09-05) SALVIANO, L. O.; GASPARIN, E. E.; MATTOS, V. C. N.; BARBIZAN, B.; SALTARA, F.; Paulo de Mello; DEZAN, D. J.; YANAGIHARA, J. I.© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.Fluid flow in centrifugal compressors is complex and turbulent, making it difficult to achieve a robust equipment design. In this work, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis is conducted on the periodical domain of a CO2 centrifugal compressor impeller and vaneless diffuser, with a 2.85:1 pressure ratio, using ANSYS CFX. The fluid flow is assumed to be steady state, turbulent, and three dimensional. Since polar angles are not considered in the traditional one-dimensional analysis, eight polar angles on hub and shroud were considered for modeling, sensitivity analysis, and optimization. After numerical verification and validation, a sequential sensitivity analysis (SA) was performed to identify non-influential variables. From the same design of experiment (DoE) used by the Morris qualitative SA, a response surface (RS) was trained to perform a quantitative SA by the smoothing spline ANOVA (SS-ANOVA) method. The Morris method was found to be more conservative than SS-ANOVA, keeping more variables as influent for the analysis. Both methods agreed on influential variables ranking. Low computational effort was required to submit the RS to a constrained optimization procedure using the NSGA-II method. The polytropic efficiency of the optimal centrifugal compressor configuration increased 0.7%, keeping the pressure ratio above 2.85, and the required power and outlet temperature below the base compressor. The impact of the polar angles at trailing edge on output variables is higher than leading edge. The optimal centrifugal compressor found is submitted to different mass flow rates and the overall performance for the optimal angles of the trailing edge and leading edge of the impeller was higher than the base compressor. The strategy adopted herein related to qualitative and quantitative sensitivity analysis coupled with response surface and the constrained optimization was shown to be robust, which can be applied to high-dimensional CFD models to reduce the computational cost with suitable results regarding fluid flow phenomena.