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 comprising 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 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.
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, the perforated surface forming 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.