Parametric study of a bubble removing device for hemodialysis

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Poonnapa Chaichudchaval1, Nunthapat Fuangkamonvet1, Supajitra Piboonlapudom1, Teeranoot Chanthasopeephan1
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand

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AbstractBackgroundThis paper sets out to design a device for removing bubbles during the process of hemodialysis. The concept is to guide the bubbles while traveling through the device and eventually the bubbles can be collected. The design focuses on the analysis of various parameters i.e. inlet diameter, inlet velocity and size of the pitch. The initial diameters of Models 1 and 2 have thread regions of 6 and 10 mm, respectively. Parameters: Swirl number, Taylor number, Lift coefficient along with pressure field are also implemented.ResultsBased on computational fluid dynamics analysis, the bubbles' average maximum equilibrium position for Model 1 reached 1.995 mm, being greater than that of Model 2, which attained 1.833 mm. Then, 16,000 bubbles were released into Model 1 to validate the performance of the model. This number of bubbles is typically found in the dialysis. Thus, it was found that 81.53% of bubbles passed through the radial region of 2.20 ± 0.30 mm. The appropriate collecting plane was at 100 mm, as measured from the inlet position along the axial axis. The Taylor number, Lift coefficient, and Swirl number proved to be significant parameters for describing the movement of the bubbles. Results were based on multiple inlet velocities. It is seen that Model 3, the improved model with unequal pitch, reached a maximum equilibrium position of 2.24 mm.ConclusionOverall, results demonstrated that Model 1 was the best design compared to Models 2 and 3. Model 1 was found capable of guiding the bubbles to the edge location and did not generate extra bubbles. Thus, the parametric study, herein, can be used as a prototype for removing bubbles during the process of hemodialysis.

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