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Article
Establishing Criteria for Sidewall Air Inlet Performance and Evaluation of Four Commercial Inlets on This Criteria
Transactions of the ASAE
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Date
1-1-2000
Abstract
Four commercially available sidewall air inlets and one sharp-edged rectangular opening were tested in a full-scale building section under similar isothermal conditions. Large differences were found between inlets for airjet spread, axial velocity decay, airjet throw, and entrainment ratio. A criterion was derived for evaluating inlets utilizing airjet throw, airjet spread, entrainment ratio, and animal-level velocity. The criterion developed highlighted some deficiencies of the commercially available inlets at a recommended building operating pressure of 12.4 Pa.
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Open
Copyright Owner
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Copyright Date
2000
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Steven J. Hoff and Cheng Gang Wu. "Establishing Criteria for Sidewall Air Inlet Performance and Evaluation of Four Commercial Inlets on This Criteria" Transactions of the ASAE Vol. 43 Iss. 3 (2000) p. 735 - 743 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/steven_hoff/34/
This article is from Transactions of the ASAE 43, no. 3 (2000): 735–743.