Abstract

Economical and efficient warming of pre-transfusion human blood has been a subject of extensive investigation. The objective of this study is to identify and analyze the effect of enhanced microwave warming of bank blood. The sample here has been assumed to be a 2D cylinder interacting with microwave irradiation. The mathematical interpretation for the study is performed by solving the equation of electromagnetic wave propagation along with the equation of energy balance and pertinent boundary conditions. The samples after being subjected to both lateral and radial irradiations of same intensity are investigated for the power absorption in the sample with respect to the sample size. The preliminary observations obtained are further analyzed and extended for spatial distribution scrutiny. The collaborative analysis of the spatial distributions of temperature and power in the human blood along with high heating rate and low thermal non-uniformity determine the optimal heating strategy. The observations at different sample sizes recommend radial irradiation as the optimal heating strategy for samples corresponding to OP: 1 and 3, and lateral irradiation for samples corresponding to OP: 2, respectively. Considering all the aspects, the present work recommends an efficient way for enhanced microwave assisted heating of body fluid samples (2D cylindrical geometry) with known or measurable dielectric properties.

Highlights

  • The microwave is a non-ionizing electromagnetic irradiation with the feature of volumetric processing[1,2,3]

  • Microwave warming of human blood with intensity, I0 = 1 W.cm-2 The peaks observed in the plot are caused due to constructive interference of the propagating microwave and show the maximum values of the average power absorbed by the human blood

  • The observation points are selected on the basis of either of the irradiation techniques achieving a maxima in the average power absorption observed

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Introduction

The microwave is a non-ionizing electromagnetic irradiation with the feature of volumetric processing[1,2,3]. The interaction of microwave irradiation with a dielectric substance depends upon its factor of dielectric constant and loss values[2]. The prominence of warming was accepted after several investigations demonstrated the complications of cold blood transfusion such as hemorrhagic shocks, ventricular fibrillation, etc[7,8,9]. These studies highly favored the need to research and investigate all the aspects of warming of pre-transfusion blood. The human blood needs to be warmed rapidly taking in cogitation the preservation of its sterility and quality by employing microwave assisted warming technique[10]. The microwave assisted warming of human blood has been a suggested alternative in the category of dry technique of blood warming[8,11]

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