Gauss2k
Electrical
- Feb 27, 2004
- 49
Hello,
I've been asked to add ventilation on the second floor (about 32k sqf) of a factory and I'd like to have your opinion.
Since several machines (using steam) are used one the first floor, a lot of heat rises to the warehouse on the second floor. The finished products are brought from the first to the second floor by conveyors and there are stairs for the employees; thus the hot air have several openings to climb up.
My first thought was to try to stop the incoming hot air by adding walls and doors to the stairs and by adding strip-curtains to the conveyors. Then I could add fans to create an horizontal flow of air through the 2 straight corridors going from on end to the other, about 325 feets long. (There is not enough room above the stored materials to use big fans pushing air towards the floor, like I saw in other threads)
To avoid having to seal the stairs and conveyors, someone else suggested to add fans on the second floor that would push air from the outside to the inside in order to create a pressure high enough to stop the natural convection of the hot air coming from the first floor. Then we could release a controled quantity of the remaining hot air from the roof (while keeping the local pressure high enough to prevent the hot air from raising).
What do you think? Any suggestions?
Thank you
I've been asked to add ventilation on the second floor (about 32k sqf) of a factory and I'd like to have your opinion.
Since several machines (using steam) are used one the first floor, a lot of heat rises to the warehouse on the second floor. The finished products are brought from the first to the second floor by conveyors and there are stairs for the employees; thus the hot air have several openings to climb up.
My first thought was to try to stop the incoming hot air by adding walls and doors to the stairs and by adding strip-curtains to the conveyors. Then I could add fans to create an horizontal flow of air through the 2 straight corridors going from on end to the other, about 325 feets long. (There is not enough room above the stored materials to use big fans pushing air towards the floor, like I saw in other threads)
To avoid having to seal the stairs and conveyors, someone else suggested to add fans on the second floor that would push air from the outside to the inside in order to create a pressure high enough to stop the natural convection of the hot air coming from the first floor. Then we could release a controled quantity of the remaining hot air from the roof (while keeping the local pressure high enough to prevent the hot air from raising).
What do you think? Any suggestions?
Thank you