Air-mixing plenum and method of mixing flows of air therewith
AssigneeIngénia Technologies Inc.
InventorsGeorge Mastromonaco, David Guevremont, Pierre Chauvat
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Abstract
A mixing plenum having at least one mixing column configured to be disposed in a first flow of air, the mixing column comprising an elongated body defining a channel extending along a longitudinal axis of said elongated body, the elongated body comprising at least one perforated surface, the at least one perforated surface forming an angle with a flow direction of the first flow of air, wherein the channel is adapted to receive a second flow of air, the mixing column being configured to generate a mixture of the first and second flows of air across the at least one perforated surface.
Claims20
A mixing plenum comprising at least one mixing column configured to be disposed in a first flow of air, the at least one mixing column comprising:
- an elongated body defining a channel extending along a longitudinal axis of said elongated body, the elongated body comprising a first lateral wall, a second lateral wall, a first end wall and a second end wall, and at least one perforated surface located within the first lateral wall or the second lateral wall, such that the at least one perforated surface forms an angle with a flow direction of the first flow of air;
- wherein the channel is adapted to receive a second flow of air, the at least one mixing column being configured to generate a mixture of the first and second flows of air across the at least one perforated surface.
A method of mixing first and second flows of air having different temperatures, the method comprising:
- exposing an air-mixing column of an air-mixing plenum to the first flow of air, the first flow of air defining a first flow direction;
- channeling the second flow of air through a channel extending through the air-mixing column along a longitudinal axis thereof;
- channeling the first flow of air along a perforated surface of the air-mixing column, wherein the perforated surface of the air-mixing column is located within a first lateral wall or a second lateral wall of the air-mixing column, and wherein the perforated surface forms an angle with the first flow direction;
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- forming a pressure differential across the perforated surface to generate a mixture of the first and second flows of air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.