Mechanics of the Household: A Course of Study Devoted to Domestic Machinery and Household Mechanical AppliancesKeene, E. S. (Edward Spencer)
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Mechanics of the Household: A Course of Study Devoted to Domestic Machinery and Household Mechanical Appliances
Keene, E. S. (Edward Spencer)
Heating; Lighting; Plumbing
Fig. 164 shows the method of Fig. 163 combined with a direct means of
admitting fresh air from the inside. The fresh air ducts should be
provided with dampers to control the effect of extreme cold and wind.
=Quantity of Air Discharged by a Flue.=--Any change of temperature
of air produces a change equal to 1/491 part of its volume, for each
degree variation. If a cubic foot of air is raised in temperature 1°F.,
its volume is 1/491 part larger than the original volume, and its
buoyancy in the surrounding air is increased correspondingly. Air that
has a temperature higher than that surrounding it will tend to rise
because it is lighter. The air rising from a hot-air register or from a
heated surface are illustrations of this condition.
Since the change of volume--or what is the same thing, its tendency
to rise--increases 1/491 for each degree difference in temperature,
the upward velocity of highly heated air will be very great. In warm
air that fills a chimney flue or a room, the same tendency exists, the
warmest air rises to the highest point and if the air can escape, as in
the case of a chimney, a draft will result.
The draft of a chimney, in quiet air, is due to the difference in
temperature between the air inside the flue above that outside the
house. A chimney that does not “draw” and causes a stove to “smoke,”
will often produce sufficient draft after the flue has been warmed. The
upward movement of the warmer air in the flue produces a constantly
increasing velocity, until it reaches the top of the chimney. This is
an accelerated velocity that may be calculated by use of the formula
given in physics, to express the velocity of accelerated motion. The
well-known formula _V_ = √(2_gh_) may be modified to express the
conditions existing in a flue and permit of the calculation of the
quantity of air discharged.
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