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Example calculation After drawing an arterial blood gas sample from a patient the P a O 2 is found to be 100 mmHg. Since the patient is receiving oxygen-saturated air resulting in a F I O 2 of 50% oxygen his calculated P a O 2 /F I O 2 ratio would be 100 mmHg/0.50 = 200 mmHg.
Also called air–fuel ratio gauge, air–fuel meter, or air–fuel gauge, it reads the voltage output of an oxygen sensor, sometimes also called AFR sensor or lambda sensor. The original narrow-band oxygen sensors became factory installed standard in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The alveolar gas equation is the method for calculating partial pressure of alveolar oxygen (p A O 2). The equation is used in assessing if the lungs are properly transferring oxygen into the blood. The alveolar air equation is not widely used in clinical medicine, probably because of the complicated appearance of its classic forms.
For example, in high altitude, the arterial oxygen PaO 2 is low but only because the alveolar oxygen (PAO 2) is also low. However, in states of ventilation perfusion mismatch, such as pulmonary embolism or right-to-left shunt, oxygen is not effectively transferred from the alveoli to the blood which results in an elevated A-a gradient.
The respiratory exchange ratio (RER) is the ratio between the metabolic production of carbon dioxide (CO 2) and the uptake of oxygen (O 2). [3] [4] The ratio is determined by comparing exhaled gases to room air. Measuring this ratio is equal to RQ only at rest or during mild to moderate aerobic exercise without the accumulation of lactate.
Adiabatic flame temperatures and pressures as a function of ratio of air to iso-octane. A ratio of 1 corresponds to the stoichiometric ratio Constant volume flame temperature of a number of fuels, with air. If we make the assumption that combustion goes to completion (i.e. forming only CO 2 and H 2 O), we can calculate the adiabatic flame ...
This allows to define a local fuel-air equivalence ratio =,, =,,. The local equivalence ratio is an important quantity for partially premixed combustion. The relation between local equivalence ratio and mixture fraction is given by
Oxygen makes up only 20.95% of the volume of air, and only 23.20% of its mass. [13] The air-fuel ratios listed below are much higher than the equivalent oxygen-fuel ratios, due to the high proportion of inert gasses in the air.