An operation theatre (OT) is a special room inside the hospital where medical surgery is carried out by a surgeon with the help of medical personnel. Technical standards or requirements which have been set for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) inside an operation theatre is important not only for the comfort of surgeon, patient, and medical personnel, but also to reduce the risk of surgical site infection during surgery. This research focus on Minor Operation Theatre (MOT) which is dental surgery room at Universiti Malaysia Perlis Health Centre with room dimensions of 2.89 m(H)×3.12 m(W)×3.4 m(L) is used for numerical analysis. The air flow supplied to the MOT is from single unit air-conditioning system. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis is a part of an investigation to determine the air flow and temperature distribution inside the MOT. A simulation conducted by using ANSYS Fluent only consider dry air inside MOT. Therefore, the main aim of this research is to compare and analyze the simulation of dry air conducted with previously obtained experimental data of humid air distribution inside the MOT. The comparison of humid and dry air temperature throughout the MOT shows that the difference is 25.3%. The average temperature of humid air inside the MOT is 21.8 °C while for dry air is 16.3 °C. Moreover, the cooling capacity of humid air and dry air are 2.23 kW and 1.64 kW respectively. Thus, the difference between humid air and dry air-cooling capacity is 26.5%. However, the dry air simulation and humid air simulation is the same if only the process is considered as simple cooling.

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Living mammalian especially European cats will face some problems when traveling from cold ambient in Europe to hot ambient country. Some of the problems are, these cats will become panting when exposed to the high temperature of ambient for a short term. Also, for a long term exposed to high temperature, the cats will experience heat stress and hair loss. The objectives of this study are on cat thermal comfort, cooling load for cat compartment, and analysis of air flow to achieve the desired temperature for the cat compartment using CFD simulation. In this study, three parts of analysis will be considered in CFD simulations which are the thermal distribution for four Peltier plates with aluminium heat sink using ANSYS Transient Thermal, air flow in the ducting to a cold heat sink, and air flow distribution in cat compartment using ANSYS Fluent. The temperature for the Persian cat’s thermal comfort is around 20-25°C. Cooling load gain from designed portable cat compartment with the desired space is 177 W. By ANSYS Transient Thermal, time taken for heat sink change from 22°C to 12°C is around 200-250 seconds. Then, by using ANSYS Fluent, the temperature of initial air temperature in the ducting when flow through a cold heat sink was changed from 27.15°C to 20.93°C by simple cooling. Next, the average air temperature in the cat’s compartment is 23.83°C that achieved average thermal comfort for mammal or Persian cat which is 20-25°C of dry bulb temperature. However, the study only focuses on steady-state dry air simple cooling analysis only with the laminar flow as a preliminary result by CFD simulation before build the actual portable cat compartment. The dry air simulation can be assumed similar as humid air for simple cooling process only proved by the comparison of the same cooling capacities values towards the different value of absolute humidity.