P08042: Cigarette Smoking Machine to Study Particle Deposition in Human Lungs

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Project Overview

The deposition of cigarette carcinogens in human lungs has been suggested as a factor likely associated with lung cancer. Cigarette smoking machines can be used to induce particle deposition in human lung casts. The objective of this project was to design and build a cigarette smoking machine and to develop hardware and software interfaces between the smoking machine and human lung casts. The basic smoking machine consists of a vacuum pump that pulls smoke through a cigarette and a series of flow meters and valves at a specified intervals. The interface to be developed between the smoking machine and lung cast accurately reproduces smoking patterns and air flow through a lung cast containing up to 10 airway generations. A key requirement for this project was that the smoking machine must comply with standardized smoking protocols.

Cigarette Smoking Machine

Design Team

Machine Team: Key issues to be addressed by this team include system design and construction, design requirements for computer interface and development of a solution for connecting the lung cast to the smoking machine.

Lung Team: This team is responsible for determination of best methods for producing accurate lung casts, development of a solution for connecting the lung cast to the smoking machine and develop solutions for cleaning out the lung cast after each test.

Top Row: (L to R) Svilen Piralkov, Joseph Leitten, Kate Gleason, Mikhails Dizhgalvis, Yi Fan Zhang, Adam Davenport. Bottom Row: (L to R) John Koeppel, Clinton Hayduke, Woo Young Choi, Edward (Ted) Harding. Absent: Kenya Athill

Name	Discipline	Role / Skills	E-mail
Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard	ME	Faculty Guide/Customer	kaleme@rit.edu
Risa Robinson	ME	Faculty Consultant/Customer	rjreme@rit.edu
Woo Young Choi	ME	Lung Team	wyc9936@rit.edu
Yi Fan Zhang	ME	Lung Team	crawford188@yahoo.com
Clinton Hayduke	ME	Lung Team	csh4546@rit.edu
John Koeppel	ME	Lung Team	jhk6731@rit.edu
Joseph Leitten	ME	Machine Team	jwl6734@rit.edu
Mikhails Dizhgalvis	ME	Machine Team	mxd4652@rit.edu
Edward Harding	ME	Machine Team	emh7149@rit.edu
Kenya Athill	EE	Lung Team/Machine Team	ksa4162@rit.edu
Adam Davenport	EE	Lung Team/Machine Team	amd4791@rit.edu
Svilen Piralkov	CE	Machine Team	spp8969@rit.edu