Kitchen range hood is used to remove cooking oil fume in most of family. The oil fume collection efficiency of range hood is demand to be improved for reaching healthy indoor air quality in residential kitchen. The effects of chef disturbance intensity on the fume particle collection of range hood are quantified by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. The chef operation is considered by introducing a moving momentum source where the collection efficiency of fume particle is defined by the particle residence time. The collection efficiency of fume particle is proposed to be classified as the primary collection efficiency and the secondary collection efficiency of fume particle. The results indicate that the primary collection efficiency of fume particle is decreased by 26.4% in vertical disturbance (VD) mode of chef stirring with the rotation velocity from 0 to 1.5 rps. Meanwhile, the primary collection efficiency is decreased by 8.5% in horizontal disturbance (HD) mode for the same range of the rotation velocity of chef stirring. It is further found that the secondary collection efficiency of fume particle can be used as an indicator of the fume particle concentration of kitchen.
Keywords: Chef operation; Collection efficiency; Moving momentum source; Numerical simulation; Pollutant concentration.