Estudo comparativo entre métodos de dimensionamento de redes de ar comprimido medicinal aplicado a um posto de saúde

Abstract

With the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an immediate need to create new hospitals and maintain the existing ones, and, because of this great need, it is necessary that they be designed efficiently and at lower costs. This work aims to carry out the design of a medical compressed air network in a more efficient way. In the design, the systems of generation, purification and distribution of compressed air will be determined, and for the distribution system three methods will be compared: Fialho, TopFusion and AirNet. The last two are practical methods, used by compressed air piping suppliers, and the Fialho (method is analytical, using iterative calculations. In order to dimension correctly, the pressure losses in the compressed air network between the different methods are taken into account. After the sizing, the three methods could be compared, and thus, it was noticed that AirNet and TopFusion methods are less conservative than the Fialho method, but that all three methods meet the needs proposed in the project.