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Empirical correlation to estimate the optimum jet velocity of an air curtain.

Author(s) : GON?ALVES J. C., COSTA J. J., FIGUEIREDO A. R., et al.

Summary

This paper presents the results of a parametric study to quantify the influence of some thermal and geometrical parameters (door height) on the performance of an Air Curtain Device (ACD). The experimental facility consists of two similar adjacent rooms
connected by a door over which the ACD device was installed. The tracer gas technique was used to calculate the sealing effect achieved with the air curtain at different jet velocities. Using a commercial CFD software, a numerical study was also performed to simulate the heat and mass transfer phenomena, as well as the aerodynamic sealing efficiency. A good agreement was observed between experimental and numerical results, showing that the optimum discharge velocity of the ACD air jet increases almost linearly with the door height, as well as with the temperature difference between both sides of the air curtain. It was possible to establish an empirical correlation that predicts reasonably well the optimum discharge jet velocity of a vertical air curtain device, depending on the temperature difference and the doorway height. An electronic device can be included in the ACD enabling the
automatic adjustment of the air curtain jet velocity based this correlation, in order to continuously operate close to maximum sealing efficiency.

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  • Original title: Empirical correlation to estimate the optimum jet velocity of an air curtain.
  • Record ID : 30017891
  • Languages: English
  • Source: CYTEF 2016. VIII Congreso Ibérico y VI Congreso Iberoamericano de las Ciencias y Técnicas del Frío, Coimbra-Portugal, 3-6 mayo, 2016.
  • Publication date: 2016/05/03

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