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Design of an intravenous oxygenator

  • Gi Beum Kim*
  • , Tae Kyu Kwon
  • , Chul Un Hung
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Jeonbuk National University

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to design a new intravenous blood-gas exchange device and to estimate the design characteristics of the device with a dimensionless function by using a substance that can be used instead of bovine blood. In addition, the characteristics of oxygen transfer were estimated using empirical formulas and the reliability of the equations was ascertained by comparing their output with an experiment performed using bovine blood. The dimensionless function was derived using distilled water and bovine blood to estimate the oxygen transfer rate. Using the derived equations, the calculated oxygen transfer rates for bovine blood and distilled water were similar for Reynolds numbers ranging from 0.7 to 7.0. Therefore, it is possible to estimate the oxygen transfer rate in bovine blood, which is a non-Newtonian fluid, using distilled water, which is a Newtonian fluid. Moreover, it was possible to verify the related equations because the oxygen transfer rate could be estimated using the derived equations, according to the diameters of the various device modules.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)34-41
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Artificial Organs
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006.03

Keywords

  • Dimensionless function
  • Gas transfer
  • Hollow fiber membrane
  • Intravenous oxygenator

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Materials Science
  • Medicine
  • Biological Sciences

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