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VOL. 56 NO. 3 SERVING 2000 ENGINEERS MAY, 2020
THE COVID-19 ISSUEEngineers Collaborate on Breakthrough Technique to Expand Ventilator Capacity EDITOR’S NOTE: All of us are now familiarwith the many consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This May issue of the Wiliki OHawaii showcases three articles regardingengineering and the virus. The two frontpage articles describe how the UHM Collegeof Engineering is helping in the fight againstthe virus. The article on page x discussescontingencies for dealing with disasters likethis.
An innovative technique to treat up to fourCOVID-19 patients with a single ventilator hasthe potential to save lives in Hawaiʻi and aroundthe world.
The team working on the new methodincludes: University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaMechanical Engineering Associate ProfessorsA Zachary Trimble and Scott Miller, BrennanYamamoto, a 2019 UH Mānoa mechanicalengineering PhD graduate and researcher forthe University of Hawaiʻi Applied ResearchLaboratory, Russell Woo, MD, KapiʻolaniMedical Center for Women and Childrenpediatric surgeon and John A. Burns School ofMedicine (JABSOM) associate professor ofsurgery, and the project’s founder, DonaldGaucher, MD, an anesthesiologist at StraubMedical Center.
“The quad-split ventilator system allows fourpatients to be ventilated off one ventilator, eachwith their own different minute ventilation,”Gaucher said.
Hawaiʻi Lt. Gov. Josh Green, who is also amedical doctor, said there are about 535ventilators in the state and about 15 percent arecurrently in use. This new technique would beimplemented only in an emergency if allventilation capacity has been used. If needed,it would enable four times the number ofpatients to be treated. “That’s a huge difference.Often, intensive careunits are clustered sothat you can get bedsnear one another. Wehave our Army Corp ofEngineers also lookingat some additionalfacilities, and thosefacilities will bedesigned with this kindof technology in mindso that if we did haveto couple people ontoa ventilator or bringpeople into closecontact, this of course
in a crisis circumstance, we could do it,” Greensaid.
“Currently with the coronavirus, we predictthere will not be enough ventilators available inthe United States,” Gaucher said.
Researchers said doctors worldwide arealready working on ways to treat more than onepatient with a single ventilator. However, thisadvancement allows patients to receive moreindividualized care than simply just sharing the
UH Mānoa Students Create Mask Sewing Kits Aimed at Saving Lives in Collegeof Engineering's FabLab
A group of volunteers led by two University ofHawaiʻi at Mānoa PhD students are creatingsewing kits for cloth masks designed for peopleto wear as a preemptive measure againstpossible asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19.
Sergey Negrashov and Chris Ketterestablished Aloha Mask to create double-plyfabric mask kits through the College ofEngineering’s FabLab, a self-sustaining spacedesigned for students to fabricate their designs.Each kit contains the materials needed toproduce one mask, and it takes an individualabout 15 minutes to sew the mask with a sewingmachine. Negrashov, a computer sciencestudent who recently passed his dissertationdefense, works full-time as an applied physicistat Oceanit. Ketter is a physics student.
“The universal shortage of personalprotective equipment across the world hasdriven a lot of people to do what they can to helppeople on the front line fighting this disease,”Negrashov said. “I tried my hand sewing themasks from available patterns and found thatmost of my time was spent cutting the patterns.
Our innovation is using the FabLab laser cutterto mass produce mask kits for volunteers withsewing machines to assemble and donate toany organization that needs them.”
Negrashov’s goal is to make 400 masks perday for all types of frontline workers, as long asthey can continue to secure materials. Thecurrent version of the mask is designed tocontain the virus and protect others if the weareris ill. He eventuallyhopes to design amask to protecthealthy individualsfrom getting sick.
“Current researchsuggests that the bestmaterial for masks iscotton,” Negrashovsaid. “We will bepivoting ourproduction towards anew mask design witha pocket for a filtercommonly used inhospitals. Those will go
directly to healthcare workers.”
Negrashov and Ketter are working withOceanit and are planning to collaborate withresearchers in the UH Mānoa oceanographydepartment to test the effectiveness of their filterdesigns. Once team members identify the bestfilter material, they will retool their manufacturingprocess.
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Todays panic over shortages for the criticalmedical lifesaving equipment “ventilators”during the COVID-19 pandemic is widespreadacross the United States. These ventilator life-supporting medical equipment requireelectrical power 24/7 though some have 2-6hours of battery backup, any prolonged powerinterruption to Hospitals, Medical & Healthcarefacilities as well as Nursing/Retirement Homeswould be fatal. Currently New York City is usingthousands of ventilators. Luckily we are in acalm weather period for the month of April, butCOVID-19 is expected to last through earlysummer in the United States when severeweather events such as Hurricanes, Tornados,and wildfires are typical causes of localized andwidespread electrical grid power outages. InCalifornia and Hawaii, we also haveEarthquakes that disrupt grid power.
Lessons learned from hurricane Maria inPuerto Rico (September 2017) is thatcentralized grid with above ground power linesare not resilient and failure isolated manycommunities and homes for days, weeks andeven months without electrical power. Theprolonged electrical power outages lastedmonths costing nearly 3,000 lives [1]. PuertoRico also learned that back-up emergencygenerators powered by fossil fuel are also notresilient, running out of fuel after a few hourswhile structures (homes/buildings) using solar-PV power during daytime coupled with batterystorage discharge power at night were resilienthaving electrical power 24/7 in Island Nano-Grid mode of operation. The New EnglandJournal of Medicine article “Mortality in PuertoRico after Hurricane Maria” published July 12,2018, detailed the high mortality rates werecaused by “interruption of medical care” [2].Many individuals in Puerto Rico weredependent on life-sustaining equipmentrequiring electricity 24/7, healthcare disruptionwas a major “contributor to both morbidity andmortality”. During the November 2018 NorthernCalifornia wildfires, many people described notbeing able to see at night to escape their homesdue to the power outage highlighting safetyissues with 85 lives lost and the importance ofresiliency with Island Nano-Grid to save lives.The September 2018 Hokkaido Island Japanearthquake caused an island-wide poweroutage to all 2.9M customers for 2 days [3].“Hospitals were forced to function onemergency backup power due to the blackout.Many hospitals had to turn away emergencypatients because of the outages”. Therefore,home and building resiliency requires IslandNano-Grid for power 24/7 ensuring safety,security and to save lives [4].
All homes/buildings in the State of Hawaii thathave critical life-supporting medical equipmentfrom simple oxygen generators to complexventilators requiring electrical power 24/7 mustbe made resilient. Most ventilator power ratingis between 100-200W or 2.4-5kWh/day; this isequivalent to 1 or 2 refrigerator daily powerusage. Overnight usage would require batterydischarge of 1.2-2.5kWh/night per ventilator soa single 10kWh battery can back-up 4-8ventilators. A side benefit of achieving resilientIsland Nano-Grid for electrical power 24/7 isalso achieving the state of Hawaii 100%Renewable Clean Energy goal today with 100%electrification for Carbon-Free emissions [5].
Today the cost for single crystal silicon rooftopsolar-PV modules is as low as 28¢/W withmodule/panel power between 400-500W. Addthe cost of inverter, installation and soft costs(marketing & advertising), the total cost of asystem as low as $3/W in Hawaii while as lowas $2/W in California using polysilicon modules.Hawaii state rebate and Federal tax creditreduces the cost of the total rooftop solar-PVsystem to ~$1.40/W in Hawaii. The averagedaily sun radiance for Oahu is 5.5hours/daymaking the daytime solar-PV electricitygeneration costs 3.6¢/kWh for a 7kW size PVsystem over 25 years. Adding a Li-ion batteryelectrical storage systems sized between 10-20kWh with hybrid-inverter costs <71¢/W on thelow price side and after State and Federalcredits ~14.8¢/kWh over 10 years dependingon the battery manufacturer.
1] John Borland and Takahiro Tanaka, “SolarPlus Multi-Storage Restores Power to Familiesin Puerto Rico”, Renewable Energy World, May1, 2018.
2] N. Kishore et al., “Mortality in Puerto Ricoafter Hurricane Maria”, New England Journal ofMedicine 2018; 379:162-170.
3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hokkaido_Eastern_Iburi _earthquake.
4] John Borland, “Fight Climate Change andDecline of Rooftop Solar-PV in Hawaii withResilient Island Nano-Grid 2nd Solar Wave andZero Grid-Buy Equivalence”, Wiliki-o-Hawaii,vol.55, no.2, April 2019, p.1.
5] John Borland, “Be Proactive Not Reactive tothe Next Island Blackout: A Case Study forAchieving 100% Renewable Energy From TheSun + Multiple Storage For Hawaii ResidencesWith <3Years Payback & Off-Grid Operation”,Wiliki-o-Hawaii, vol.53, no.10, December 2017,p.1.
Bio: John O. Borland is President of J.O.B.Technologies and published over 160 technicaland conference papers in the areas ofadvanced semiconductor devicemanufacturing, high efficiency c-Si solar cells,and resilient Island Nano-Grid using Solar +Multi-Storage. He has also been awarded 6patents. He is a senior member of IEEE, theIEEE Region 6 Central Area chair, the IEEEHawaii section past-chair and the IEEE HawaiiChapter chair for both the Power & EnergySociety and Electron Device Society.
COVID-19 Highlights the Need for Resilient IslandNano-Grid Power 24/7 at Hospitals, Medical &Healthcare Facilities
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Pre-COVID-19, the FRMDC was scheduledfor May 8th from 12-6 p.m. at the UHM Campus.With current COVID-19 guidelines, it has beendecided that the virtual version be heldessentially the same. There will be nine teamsrepresented. The competition time is nowplanned from 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., since it isvirtual and since there will not really be any"hardware" to show.
FRMDC format:1) Presentation: This will be essentially thesame as always - just remote. There will be threeHawaiian Electric Company judges. Each teamwill have a set time to present and will do so viaZoom or HECO's WebEx account. However,
since the students have been using Zoom fortheir courses and familiar with it, it will most likelybe via Zoom.
2) Poster Presentation: Each team will preparea print ready poster in pdf format. The posterwill be pre-distributed to the judges. After all theformal presentations are completed, each teamwill reconnect with the judges remotely for tenminutes for the judges to ask questions aboutthe poster. This format mimics the live versionof the FRMDC as much as possible.
3) Hardware demonstration: This part iscancelled altogether due to the followingreasoning. Some teams will have limitedhardware, and some teams will have none.Teams that figured out how to make somehardware in the current situation will look moreimpressive. However, we need to remembersome projects are conducive to working fromhome. Some are not. For instance a team thatis making small 3D printed parts or smallarduino electronics can continue to make somehardware progress. A team making a formularace car or other large project cannot make thathardware at their home. Additionally, somestudents have access to a shop or garage tocontinue working on hardware from home.Some students live in an apartment and cannot.Per the current UH COVID guidelines, wecannot expect students to build any hardwaresince as a public school cannot guarantee theirability to do so from home. Thus, under theequal opportunity guidelines at the university weneed to eliminate hardware demonstration viavideo or other means.
Judges are engineers from Hawaiian ElectricCompany (HECO) due to Francis R.Montgomery’s affiliation retiring as VicePresident of Engineering in 1979. In addition,HECO engineers are very willing and able tovolunteer.
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ventilator. “This system works by using aseries of flow and one-way valves, as well assome 3D-printed materials to individuallyregulate the flow and thereby the volume andpressures to each of the patients sharing theventilator,” Woo said. “It allows forindividualizing multiple elements of therespiratory care, which we feel will make thismore safe and more feasible.”
One of the challenges researchers needed toovercome was to institute safety measures toprevent cross-contamination between patients.“There are medical grade biofilters (a filterdesigned to remove 99.97 percent of airborne
particles, including biomaterials like bacteriaand viruses, measuring 0.3 micrometers orgreater in diameter passing through it) in everypatient limb in both the inspiration andexpiration sides, and there are anti-backflowvalves in both inspiration and expiration sideswhich limit the flow between patients. Thus,what limited flow that may be shared betweenpatients is filtered,” Trimble said.
“This solution, as any sharing solution, is onlyin an absolute emergency situation when allventilation capacity has been used up, there’sno more ventilation capacity. So, if we need theability to ventilate people, this would be anemergency solution,” Trimble said. The teamadded that its technique allows doctorsworldwide to make modifications because theshared ventilator system is sourced by partsthey can find at local hardware stores. Thegroup is conducting additional testing toimprove the system before the need becomescritical in Hawaiʻi.
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1126 12th Avenue, Room 305Honolulu, Hawaii 96816
(808) 735-1634
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HAWAII COUNCIL OFENGINEERING SOCIETIESP.O. Box 2873Honolulu, Hawaii 96802
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Engineering Concepts, Inc. Civil /Environmental /Sanitary Engineers
1150 South King Street, Suite 700 • Honolulu, Hawaii 96814
Phone: (808) 591-8820 • Fax (808) 591-9010
Email: [email protected]
Hirata & Associates, Inc.
Geotechnical Engineering
808.486.0787
www.hirata-hawaii.com
SAM O. HIROTA, INC.Engineers & Surveyors
864 S. Beretania StreetHonolulu, Hawaii 96813
Telephone: 537-9971
MCE INTERNATIONAL, INC.MECHANICAL AND FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERS
1360 S. Ber tania St., Ste. 400Honolulu, Hawaii 96814Ph: (808) 941-0955 Fax: (808) 550-8167 Email: [email protected]
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Soils & Foundation Engineering Consultants94-417 Akoki Street
Waipahu, Hawaii 96797(808) 678-8024 FAX (808) 678-8722E-mail: [email protected]
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Sato & Associates, Inc. Consulting Engineers
Honolulu Maui
www.satoandassociates.com
The BLOCK Honolulu 707 Richards Street | Suite 528
Honolulu | Hawaii | 96813 P: 808.218.6030 | F: 808.488.3776
Direct: 808.218.6042
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7 Waterfront Plaza500 Ala Moana Boulevard, Suite 240Honolulu, HI 96813808.587.7747
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