WO2004074094A2 - System and method for aircraft cabin atmospheric composition control - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to systems and methods for selective control of the balance between nitrogen and oxygen content in the air in habitible and non- habitable areas of pressurized spaces within aircraftMore particularly, the invention relates to systems to alter the balance between oxygen and nitrogen in different areas of aircraft to create zones where the atmospheric composition more properly supports the needs of the zones.
- the invention accomplishes this zonal composition optimization by directing a higher percentage of the oxygen available in the air entering the aircraft into the habitable areas, while directing a higher percentage of the available nitrogen in the air into the non-habitable areas, especially those areas of greater flammability risk and/or limited access in case of fire.
- BACKGROUND INFORMATION The reduced air pressure available in pressurized aircraft cabins results in molecular concentrations of oxygen that are far lower than those for which most passengers are physiologically adapted. This causes reduced levels of blood and tissue oxygenation (see Figs. 1 and 2) and the initiation of physiological changes related to the body's efforts to compensate and adapt. The resulting physiological stresses include reduced respiratory effectiveness, compensatory increases in heart and respiration rates, increased levels of blood clotting factors, and increased production of red blood cells. These physiological changes result in, or contribute to, a variety of negative impacts, including but not limited to fatigue, reduced mental and physical performance, drowsiness, impaired visual acuity, impaired sleep, and possibly the formation of blood clots.
- the present invention provides methods and systems for reducing, if not obviating, these and other detrimental affects suffered by passengers and flight crew on civilian aircraft.
- Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is 14.7 psia.
- the corresponding oxygen pressure (partial-pressure) at sea level is approximately 3.07 psia.
- Pressurized aircraft cabins provide air pressures ranging from approximately 10.91 psia (8000 ft equivalent cabin altitude) to 11.78 psia (6000 ft equivalent cabin altitude) when the aircraft are operating at their maximum cruise altitudes. These reduced cabin pressures result in oxygen partial pressures ranging (approximately) from 2.286 to 2.468 psia.
- Aircraft pressurization systems maintain cabin pressure levels that allow passenger and crew habitation while the aircraft flies at altitudes far above those at which human beings could otherwise survive.
- Current pressurization systems maintain cabin air pressures between 74-80% of the standard sea level atmospheric pressure.
- cockpit crew members are provided with pressure demand oxygen masks for use when the aircraft is unable to maintain adequate pressurization.
- the sources of direct oxygen may also be used in case smoke fills the cockpit, or under certain other scenarios as required by civil aviation regulations.
- Emergency oxygen is provided in the passenger cabin in the form of drop down masks that activate automatically when air pressure in the cabin falls to levels at which passenger safety is at imminent risk.
- Therapeutic oxygen outlets are sometimes provided for use by passengers who require continuous supplemental oxygen due to medical conditions.
- Aircraft are also often equipped with portable 'walk-around' oxygen bottles for the crew to use during brief periods when their duties require them to leave their seats while the aircraft is experiencing pressurization problems.
- a common problem of all of these supplemental oxygen delivery systems is that they require tubes connected between an oxygen source and the delivery mask for the user. Such tubes, like other cords in the occupied compartments of an aircraft, have been recognized as hazards, particularly in emergency situations. It can be imagined that in an emergency situation where the environment is already chaotic, the deployment of potentially entangling oxygen delivery tubes and masks, including their elastic securement straps, detrimentally impacts the cabin environment.
- Deep Vein Thrombosis a syndrome or condition which has recently garnered increased attention with respect to airline travel, poses significant risk to cabin occupants, as well as those businesses that are tied in with the industry. Because the incidence of deep vein thrombosis has caught the eye of the public, the press has capitalized thereupon and dubbed the syndrome as "economy class syndrome.” Heretofore, the focus has been on the confining and cramped nature of airline seats, particularly in economy class, and the restrictions that are resultantly imposed upon passenger mobility. Certain studies, however, have indicated that the cramped nature of smaller seats only contribute to the inducement of deep van thrombosis rather than cause it. In fact, those same studies tend to indicate that this malady stems primarily from other conditions experienced during airline travel.
- Those factors which are either known or expected to contribute to the inducement of deep vein thrombosis include mobility restrictions which correspondingly reduce blood flow movements thereby placing a person at higher risk for forming blood clots, dehydration caused by the dry interior atmosphere of the aircraft and which can be exacerbated by the diuretic-effects of alcohol, and pressure related aspects.
- An increased tendency to develop blood clots as a result of conditions on an airliner are the hallmark of this syndrome.
- One aspect of great importance, but which has attracted less attention, is physiological effects caused by altitude adaptation. When exposed to reduced pressure and a corresponding reduction in oxygen concentration, the body immediately attempts to compensate. This phenomenon is well appreciated at least by athletes who often train at high altitudes to enhance their performance at lower altitudes.
- a hallmark of the present invention(s) is the previously unappreciated connection between the reduction in oxygen concentration experienced in-flight and the increased blood clotting factors that result and which ultimately impact the incidence of deep vein thrombosis suffered as a result of airline travel.
- the invention also addresses fatigue, comfort and physiological stress issues which result from the practical limitations of aircraft pressurization systems, which existing oxygen delivery and control systems are either incapable of addressing or are not suitably configured.
- the present invention takes the form of an apparatus and method for controlling the oxygen concentration in aircraft cabins and non-habitable areas by proportionately increasing the oxygen content of the air going to the cabin while at the same time proportionately decreasing the oxygen content of air going to non-habitable areas.
- the apparatus incorporates redundant oxygen and pressure sensors to monitor the oxygen concentration in the cabin air. Oxygen content is continually monitored and adjusted to achieve and maintain an atmosphere in the passenger cabin that is sufficiently oxygen enriched to address the oxygen related impacts of reduced air pressure, while limiting the degree of oxygen enrichment to prevent the creation of an atmosphere that increases material flammability above safe and certifiable levels.
- the apparatus continually monitors the oxygen content in non-habitable pressurized areas to maintain an atmosphere with reduced ability to sustain combustion, and to allow storage of a nitrogen cache for use in re-balancing the cabin oxygen/nitrogen balance to natural levels in case of smoke/fire detection in the cabin.
- the invention alters the gas composition of the cabin air to increase the partial pressure of oxygen.
- the increased partial pressure of oxygen is achieved without altering the cabin air pressure or the differential pressure between the interior and exterior of the fuselage, and without increasing the overall content of oxygen inside the pressure vessel of the aircraft.
- the cabin partial pressure of oxygen is monitored and adjusted continuously to provide the desired atmospheric oxygen enrichment while preventing the creation of an atmosphere which increases material flammability in the cabin above FAA approved levels.
- the concentration of oxygen will always be less than that encountered naturally at sea level, and therefore an inherently acceptable concentration for safe operation.
- the generation of oxygen has as a byproduct thereof the generation of flame-inhibiting nitrogen.
- this byproduct-nitrogen is supplied to areas and/or compartments of the aircraft particularly susceptible to fire hazards.
- the nitrogen can be injected into the cabling ducts, baggage compartment, radio rack compartments, as well as other areas where electrical wiring and other high-fire-risk assemblies are concentrated.
- the nitrogen may also be reservoired for distribution to burning or smoldering areas should onboard combustion occur.
- the current invention contemplates providing the capability for rapidly inter-mixing the reservoired nitrogen into the raised oxygen concentration areas in the event that an elevated and undesirable conbustion-risk condition is determined, or an actual combustion situation is detected or otherwise signalled.
- smoke and fire sensors can be advantageously placed in return air ducts of the aircraft thereby enabling earlier detection and extinguishment than current systems allow.
- Fig. 1 is a graphical representation of oxygen saturation compared to corresponding pulse rates of a subject take at the indicated time intervals on a MDll aircraft flying from London, UK to Atlanta, US;
- Fig. 2 is a graphical representation corresponding to Fig. 1, but in which temperature, pressure and RH (%) are comparatively demonstrated;
- Fig. 3 is a graphical presentation of a subject's pulse rate in response to varying oxygen saturation levels and compositional percentages at sea level;
- Fig. 4 is a highly simplified schematic representation of an exemplary system configured according to one embodiment of the present invention in which nitrogen and oxygen are separated and reservoired in segregated areas, but with a rapid re-mixing capability between the reservoirs;
- Fig. 5 is a schematic plan view representation of an exemplary system configured according to the present invention and shown positioned within an aircraft fuselage;
- Fig. 6 is a schematic elevational view representation of a system corresponding generally to that illustrated in Fig. 5;
- Fig. 7 is a detail schematic view of an exemplary gas separator suitable for utilization in the present invention.
- Fig. 8 is a detail schematic view of an exemplary oxygen distribution duct, including the end portions taking the form of piccolo tubes;
- Fig. 9 is a detail schematic view of an exemplary nitrogen distribution duct, including the graduated piccolo tubes.
- Fig. 10 is a 02/N2 control logic/function table demonstrating various system responses to an array of input variables.
- Figs. 1 and 2 graphically demonstrate easily monitored physiological reactions to airline flight.
- a subject's heart rate 10 (linearized 11) is compared to experienced oxygen saturation levels 12 (linearized 13). Further details of the experienced cabin environment are illustrated in Fig. 2 where temperature 15, pressures 16 and relative humidity 17 (linearized 18) are tracked with respect to time for the trip of Fig. 1. The relationship of increasing heart rate to decreasing oxygen saturation levels is readily appreciated. This significant bodily reaction, however, goes substantially unnoticed by the passenger.
- a similar reaction is shown at sea level in Fig. 3 where heart rate 21 clearly tracks oxygen content (percentage basis 20, saturation basis 22) in the air.
- the present invention constitutes raising the atmospheric concentration of oxygen within aircraft occupant compartments, without increasing pressurization.
- Several different systems and technology are contemplated as suitable for increasing cabin oxygen concentration levels.
- bottled oxygen can be utilized, but certain drawbacks are appreciated such as increased weight and onboard space occupation that such systems would require. Functionally, however, such systems would be acceptable.
- Liquid oxygen also serves as a suitable supply, but for commercial use is likely impractical and not cost-effective.
- the preferred systems for providing oxygen for increasing concentration levels within aircraft occupant cabins are those which produce high concentration oxygen via separation from available atmospheric air.
- Examples include membrane filter methods, electro-chemical methods, superconducting magnetic screens, and molecular sieves, among others.
- Particularly preferred is the molecular sieve method in which oxygen is physically separated from the other constituent components of ambient air.
- zeolite material is formed into a bed through which pressured ambient air is forced. As a result, oxygen is permitted to pass therethrough, while other components of the air, primarily nitrogen (but also carbon dioxide and water), are held back and absorbed in the zeolite bed via molecular absorption.
- the bed will become saturated and have to be purged of the absorbed components. This may be accomplished in a number of ways, but that which is most common is to relieve the imposed pressure and permit the absorbed gases to defuse from the zeolite material.
- FIG. 4 A highly simplified example of such a system's installation on an aircraft is illustrated in Fig. 4.
- the produced high-oxygen concentration air is distributed in the air supply to the occupant cabin(s). Based on appropriately positioned oxygen concentration sensors, the system adjusts for maintaining the specified level(s) within the cabin(s). Still further, the byproduct of nitrogen-rich gas is dispensed to those regions for which increased flammability retardation is desirable. Schematically, this is demonstrated in Fig. 4 where an air supply is introduced through an intake air duct 65 to a gas separator 70 where high concentration oxygen and nitrogen are produced. The oxygen enriched air flow or supply 80 is conveyed to the passenger cabin 50 while the nitrogen enriched air flow or supply 90 is directed to compartments 48 having heightened flammibility risks. Check valves 88 and 98 are provided to establish one-way conduction of the enriched flows 80 and 90.
- An inter-compartment air mixer is shown as a fan 72. This feature is provided to enable rapid remixing of the enriched gases in the event that conditions in the oxygenated passenger cabin are detected which indicate that a reduced-flammibility environment is desirable.
- One obvious example is the detection of combustion or smoke in the oxygenated cabin.
- FIGs. 5 and 6 illustrate plan and elevational views, respectively, of an exemplary aircraft in which the presently disclosed invention(s) may be employed.
- An aircraft interior 35 is defined within a fuselage 30 flying in an ambient-air environment 25.
- a floor 37 defines several above-floor cabins including the cockpit 40, vestibule 54, occupant/passenger cabin 50, and lavatory/galley area 58.
- a baggage compartment 43 is provided behind the occupiable cabins, but within the pressured zone, and which is often inaccessible from the cabin during flight.
- a non-pressured tail compartment 46 is shown behind a pressure barrier 38 and houses primary components of the on-board gas processing plant.
- a gas separation unit 70 is depicted and to which an air supply 60, typically from one of the powering engines, is directed. This engine-warmed air (exemplarily 480 degrees F) is expanded causing a temperature drop to, for example, 32 degrees F at an intake duct 65. The pressure of this supplied air is then raised utilizing a series of pressure blowers 68, between which heat exchangers are utilized to reduced the temperature-elevated pressured air flows.
- the pressured air is then processed at the separator 70 where high-concentration oxygen 80 and nitrogen 90 flows are generated.
- the nitrogen is drawn off using suction pumps 91, between which heat exchangers 93 are utilized to keep the temperature of the nitrogen enriched air within manageable ranges.
- the distributed flow rate of oxygen enriched air 80 is computer-controlled via a variable pass-through valve 84.
- the oxygen enriched air 80 may be directed forward in the aircraft 30 through duct 82 or dumped overboard through port 87 depending upon the configuration of shuttle valve 86.
- the duct 82 is arranged below the floor 37 and passes through both pressured and non-pressured zones across pressure barrier walls 38.
- a check valve 88 assures unidirectional oxygen flow in the duct 82.
- Switch valve 81 determines whether the oxygen enriched air supply 80 is directed up past the floor and into the regular air distribution ducts of the passenger cabin, or is diverted to an individual, tube-based, direct passenger mask distribution system 89.
- piccolo tube(s) 83 are utilized having a series of apertures or distribution ports 85 of continuosly decreasing spacing. As depicted in Fig. 8, the spaced configuration of the apertures assures substantially even distribution of oxygen enriched air to the intended cabin areas.
- the produced nitrogen enriched air flow 90 is similarly conveyed forward in the craft via a check-valve 98 controlled distribution duct 92, and variously dispensed to desirable locations.
- nitrogen enriched air is distributed to the below-floor compartment where it is essentially reservoired, as well as more directly to such areas as the radio bays 49.
- piccolo tube(s) 94 are utilized having a series of apertures or distribution ports 95 of continuosly decreasing spacing.
- diversions of nitrogen enriched air can be effected by manipulation of control valve(s) 96 in order to increase/decrease application of nitrogen enriched air, on demand.
- a greater amount, or perhaps all of the produced nitrogen may be desirably dumped 97 at the radio rack 49.
- the direction of air flow in the craft 30 is aft, forward.
- exhaust air ducting 59 is connected with the exhaust fan 72.
- the withdrawn air is dumped below the floor deck 37 into the nitrogen enriched compartment.
- the exhaust fan 72 can be strategically reversed in order to rapidly introduce nitrogen enriched air into the passenger cabin in the event that a lower oxygen concentrate environement is desired. This feature may also be referred to as remixing.
- control of the oxygen/nitrogen system may be automated, at least in part, under the direction of a computer-based controller 74.
- information can be obtained utilizing above-floor 76 and below-floor 78 oxygen partial pressure sensors.
- the several control valves of the system can be variously manipulated based on determined requirements. Exemplary strategies of the computer-based controller 74 are depicted in the logic/function table of Fig. 10.
- one aspect of the present invention includes changing the temperatureof the zeolite bed, preferrably by heating, during the purge cycle to enhance release of the absorbed components, the same being primarily nitrogen.
- an electrical charge can be imposed on the zeolite bed,altering the molecular sieve-effects.
- the magnitude of the charge may be made variable so that the characteristics of a particular bed can be manipulated.
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