We compare two aerosol surrogate tracers in aircraft cabins for breathing and coughing sources: tracer gas collected in the ACER Boeing 767 mock-up and fluorescent particles collected in an actual Boeing 767 aircraft by the US Transportation Command (TRANSCOM). Each source was located individually in window and middle seats. Exposure generally decreased with source distance. A window seat breathing source resulted in good agreement between datasets for exposure (as percent of release) for the TRANSCOM hangar-AFT testing mode, which corresponds to the 11-row cabin ACER laboratory space. Average tracer gas exposure for a middle seat breathing source was higher in the ACER study than the fluorescent particle tracer exposure in the TRANSCOM study. Using a coughing source in a window seat, the exposure for the TRANSCOM data was higher within the first two rows from the source before decreasing to and tracking with the ACER levels, until increasing after about 5 m away. A similar trend was recorded for a middle seat coughing source with higher overall exposure for the TRANSCOM data. Sources of exposure variation between the studies include particle deposition. This work helps optimize aerosol dispersion research in aircraft cabins and provides some validation to the existing studies.
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