In order to investigate the diffusion law of CO gas in
the vicinity
of the tunnel boring face of the plateau long tunnel, to improve the
efficiency of tunnel smoke exhaust, and to derive the spatial-temporal
variation model of CO concentration for predicting the concentration
of CO at different times and in different cross sections under specific
environments, a CO diffusion model of a tunnel in Yunnan was established
by using Ansys Fluent Fluid Simulation Software, and the CO transport
characteristics under different conditions were simulated by taking
the ventilation time, wind speed, and location of the air ducts as
the influencing factors. The results show that the wind flows from the mouth of the wind pipe
after the wind speed decreases, the diffusion area increases and arrives
at the face of the direction of the rebound in the jet stream of new
wind, and the return wind under the joint action of the vortex produced
obviously, to reach the wind pipe mouth after the tunnel wind flow
field, basically tends to stabilize. When the wind pipe mouth was
arranged in the arch waist, 20 m away from the boring face, the inlet
wind speed was 9 m/s and the ventilation time was 30 min; the CO concentration
in the tunnel was reduced to below the maximum allowable concentration
value. Moreover, the concentration of CO in the tunnel at the moment
of 15 min of ventilation has a nonlinear positive correlation with
the change of distance L from the boring face, while
at the cross section of the air outlet of the wind pipe L = 20 m, the ventilation time is from 1 to 30 min and the concentration
of CO at the cross section has a nonlinear decreasing trend with the
ventilation time, which can be deduced according to the different
space–time change models.