AEROSOL BEHAVIOR IN HIGH PRESSURE ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

The report finalizes two phases of a broad study whose general purpose is to elucidate hazards to personnel arising from aerosols in high pressure helium-oxygen atmospheres. Studies have been completed on the generation of aerosols within high pressure environments and experimental evidence has been gathered which generally indicates that particle diameter increases with increasing pressure to a slight degree but there is a remarkable reduction in numbers concentration of particles. Pulmonary deposition models have been finalized and indicate increases in deposition in the lower respiratory tract with increasing pressure.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 31, 1969
Accession Number
AD0696643

Entities

People

  • Anthony M. Sacco
  • Robert A. Gussman

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coefficients
  • Critical Temperature
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Flow Rate
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Pressure
  • Hot Wire
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mechanics
  • Microscopes
  • Microscopy
  • Particle Size
  • Respiration

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  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Software Engineering