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Duct Design

The document discusses duct systems used for heating and cooling buildings. It describes how ducts supply conditioned air from central cooling coils to buildings and return warm air back to the coils. Ducts can have a single line or multiple branch lines, and are usually rectangular, square, or circular in shape. They are fabricated from materials like galvanized iron, black steel, aluminum, stainless steel, or copper. The goal of a duct system is to transport air with minimum pressure drop, heat loss, noise, and vibration. Pressure drops in ducts occur due to friction within the duct and changes in direction or velocity. Common duct design methods include the equal friction method, static regain method, and velocity reduction method.

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Duct Design

The document discusses duct systems used for heating and cooling buildings. It describes how ducts supply conditioned air from central cooling coils to buildings and return warm air back to the coils. Ducts can have a single line or multiple branch lines, and are usually rectangular, square, or circular in shape. They are fabricated from materials like galvanized iron, black steel, aluminum, stainless steel, or copper. The goal of a duct system is to transport air with minimum pressure drop, heat loss, noise, and vibration. Pressure drops in ducts occur due to friction within the duct and changes in direction or velocity. Common duct design methods include the equal friction method, static regain method, and velocity reduction method.

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DR.A.M.

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 The main purpose of a duct is to supply conditioned air from the
central cooling coil to required buildings

 And to return the warm air from these buildings to the cooling coil.

 Duct may comprise a single line or with several branch lines

 Duct between the blower and the branch lines is often called Main
duct.

 Duct are usually rectangular/square/ circular

 Fabricated from G.I., black steel, Aluminum, S.S. and Copper.

 Duct system should transport a given volume of air with minimum


pressure drop and heat loss having less noise and vibration.
PRESSURE DROPS IN DUCTS

 As flow continues in a duct, the static pressure of air drops.

 This is due to

 1. Duct friction

 2. Change of direction /velocity.


METHODS OF DUCT DESIGN

 Three common methods:

 i) The equal friction or pressure drop method.

 Pressure drop/unit length Δp/ΔL is to be taken to be the


same for whole system.

 It is quite suitable when the ducts are symmetrical since


pressures are balanced, eliminating the use of dampers
 ii) static regain method :

The drop in pressure during a given length is made up by reducing


velocity at the end of the section.
 iii) the velocity reduction method
This a very simple method of duct design.

In this case as the flow proceeds, the velocity decreases.

The velocity in each duct including main duct is adjusted in


order to avoid noise.
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