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Villafruela Espina, José Manuel San José Alonso, Julio Francisco Castro Ruiz, Francisco Zarzuelo Sánchez, Andrés Manuel 2018-11-29T11:34:51Z 2018-11-29T11:34:51Z 2016 Building and Environment, 2016, Volume 109, Pages 190-198 03601323 http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33058 10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.09.025 190 109 198 Building and Environment 109 It is common practice for operating rooms (OR) to have more pressure than the adjacent enclosures. This is to prevent the entry of potentially contaminated air and the consequent risk of wound infection. However, when the OR door is opened the pressure difference between the two areas disappears and can cause containment failures. If a person enters or leaves the OR during door operation, additional perturbations are also generated in the airflow pattern in the doorway. In this paper, instantaneous airflows are measured during the passage of a person through a sliding door in a real OR with the HVAC system working under operating conditions. An ultrasonic anemometer that measures the magnitude and direction of the instantaneous air velocity in the doorway is used. Results show that, even though the OR has a sliding door and an initial overpressure of 20 Pa, together with what is, a priori, a good HVAC system control strategy, a small volume of air enters the OR during a cycle of door opening and closing even without the passage of a person. Furthermore, if a person walks through the door the volume of air entering the OR is higher, especially if the person enters the OR. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Elsevier Ltd Ventilation Indoor air pollution Airborne infectious Airflow patterns through a sliding door during opening and foot traffic in operating rooms info:eu-repo/semantics/article