Effects of different artificial oxygen-supply systems on migrants’ physical and psychological reactions in high-altitude tunnel construction

• Published in: Building and environment Vol. 149; pp. 458 - 467
• Main Authors: Wang, Mingnian, Yan, Guanfeng, Yu, Li, Xie, Wenqiang, Dai, Yang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2019; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Altitude; Artificial oxygen supply; Control systems; Cylinders; Experiments; High altitude; High-altitude area; Labor; Low ambient pressure; Migrants; Oxygen; Oxygen content; Physical and psychological reactions of construction personnel; Physical work; System effectiveness; Systems design; Tunnel construction; Workers; High-altitude area; Artificial oxygen supply; Low ambient pressure; Physical and psychological reactions of construction personnel

The comfort and labor efficiency of plainsmen migrating from the plains to high-altitude areas to be engaged in intense physical work like tunnel construction could be affected by environmental parameters, especially oxygen content, and an artificial oxygen supply, such as an individual oxygen-suppl...