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Membrane Dehumidification and Cooling: Fundamentals and Applications presents the state-of-the-art on membrane dehumidifiers, highlighting their most recent advancements and providing key insights into global R&D interests. With a strong focus on applications, the book offers characterization techniques to evaluate the potential of hygroscopic materials, as well as experimental methods to study the dehumidifiers' performance. The book begins by highlighting the demerits of conventional cooling systems and then reviews electrically driven alternative cooling solutions. A comparative study between different dehumidification techniques is also given, along with sections on fundamental transport mechanisms and thermodynamic modeling. Finally, scaling, heat transfer and thermodynamic analysis are presented, along with a review of hybrid membrane-based air-conditioners. This book is a one-stop resource for recent advancements in membrane dehumidification and cooling applications. It is an essential read for students, researchers and engineers interested in thermal engineering, heat and mass transfer, alternative cooling, energy materials and dehumidification.

Humidity --- Control of humidity --- Dehumidification --- Humidification --- Humidity control --- Air conditioning --- Dampness in buildings --- Control. --- Cooling systems. --- Membrane separation. --- Filtration, Membrane --- Membrane filtration --- Separation, Membrane --- Separation (Technology) --- Engineering systems

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Inadequate humidification of inspired gases can cause a variety of serious problems, and humidification has accordingly become an important aspect of modern intensive care medicine. The array of available devices is now formidable, and appropriate advice on their use is essential. Accordingly, this book is designed to serve as a practical guide for clinicians, providing information on the theoretical background of humidification, the equipment, and its optimal application. The book starts by examining the physiological basis of humidification. Current devices are then discussed, with careful attention to factors influencing their performance and methods to evaluate their effectiveness. The two scenarios of mechanical and non-mechanical ventilation are considered, and the issue of ventilator-associated pneumonia is addressed in detail. Further chapters focus on such topics as humidification following tracheostomy, humidification of the artificial airway during secretion management, measurement of inspired gas temperature in the ventilated neonate, and humidification in the home care setting. This unique monograph on the current techniques of humidification and their indications has been written by internationally acclaimed experts and will prove of great value to practitioners.

Airway (Medicine). --- Artificial respiration. --- Humidity -- Control. --- Respiratory intensive care. --- Respiratory therapy --- Artificial respiration --- Intensive care nursing --- Environment, Controlled --- Respiratory Therapy --- Airway Management --- Investigative Techniques --- Weather --- Patient Care --- Resuscitation --- Health Services --- Therapeutics --- Atmosphere --- Environment --- Emergency Treatment --- Meteorological Concepts --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Environment and Public Health --- Ecological and Environmental Phenomena --- Health Care --- Biological Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Critical Care --- Respiration, Artificial --- Humidity --- Intensive Care --- Methods --- Oxygen Inhalation Therapy --- Medicine --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Anesthesiology --- Respiratory System Diseases --- Intensive care units. --- Control. --- Critical care units --- ICUs (Health facilities) --- Control of humidity --- Dehumidification --- Humidification --- Humidity control --- Medicine. --- Anesthesiology. --- Critical care medicine. --- Respiratory organs --- Pediatrics. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Pneumology/Respiratory System. --- Diseases. --- Hospital wards --- Critical care medicine --- Air conditioning --- Dampness in buildings --- Pneumology. --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Children --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Anaesthesiology --- Surgery --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Respiratory organs—Diseases.

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The 2nd edition of this book aims to underline how inadequate humidification of inspired gases can be the cause of a variety of serious problems and, thus, it brings new results and trends in humidification, updates about technological analyses in equipment’s ventilator modes and again the impact of humidification in complementary therapies such airway secretions in mechanical ventilated patients. These aspects are analysed in critically ill patients requiring various options of ventilatory approach (i.e. invasive, noninvasive, nasal high flow oxygen). The book starts with an exhaustive description of the pathophysiology of humidification in critically ill, and continues analyzing the impact of mechanical ventilation modalities (high-flow oxygen therapy, noninvasive mechanical ventilation, invasive mechanical ventilation, etc.), monitoring prevention of complications related to inadequate humidification. Important chapters are devoted to analyze determinants - ventilator associated pneumonia-humidification; humidification strategies in tracheostomized critical care patients; humidification and impact in airway clearance managements and the key aspects about humidification in the healthcare organization. This book is intended for all healthcare professionals working in Intensive Care Units (intensivists, anaesthesiologists, pulmonologist, neonatologist, nurses and respiratory therapist). Chapter “Aerosol Therapy and Humidification” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Anesthesiology. --- Critical care medicine. --- Respiratory organs—Diseases. --- Pediatrics. --- Intensive Care Medicine. --- Pneumology. --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Medicine --- Children --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Anaesthesiology --- Surgery --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Airway (Medicine) --- Artificial respiration. --- Humidity --- Intensive care units. --- Moisture. --- Respiratory intensive care. --- Control. --- Intensive respiratory care --- Respiratory critical care --- Critical care medicine --- Respiratory therapy --- Respiratory emergencies --- Condensation --- Rain and rainfall --- Water --- Condensation (Meteorology) --- Critical care units --- ICUs (Health facilities) --- Hospital wards --- Control of humidity --- Dehumidification --- Humidification --- Humidity control --- Air conditioning --- Dampness in buildings --- Artificial ventilation (Therapy) --- Mechanical ventilation (Therapy) --- Pulmonary resuscitation --- Rescue breathing --- Respiration, Artificial --- Ventilation, Mechanical (Therapy) --- First aid in illness and injury --- Resuscitation --- Respiration