Powered capture hood
AssigneeThe Energy Conservatory, Inc.
InventorsGary Nelson, Ron Rothman
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AssigneeThe Energy Conservatory, Inc.
InventorsGary Nelson, Ron Rothman
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A powered capture hood assembly to measure volumetric airflow in heating and cooling systems and for ventilation fans. The capture hood assembly has a hood for capturing or providing airflow, a formed nozzle structure attached thereto for conditioning the airflow and a blower apparatus with an adjustable fan attached to the opposite end of the nozzle structure. Subsequent the positioning of the hood over a supply duct, for example, a fan speed controller is utilized to adjust the fan in the tubular blower member to provide a zero or null pressure reading between the venturi portion of the nozzle structure and the local ambient room pressure. A pressure gauge is utilized to measure the pressure differential between a pressure reference tap of the formed nozzle structure and the pressure tap of the blower apparatus to determine volumetric airflow.
A powered capture hood assembly to measure volumetric airflow comprising:
A volumetric airflow measuring assembly for return and supply airflow measurements comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.