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Field Measurement & Verification Of Residential Duct Leakage Methods And Cfd Analysis Of Hvac Mixing Box, Uday Vadlamani

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The research work in this thesis is subdivided to providing the initial results of the experimental work followed by simulation work at the end. The experimental work proposes a new measurement technique for measuring total and local leakages in ducts. The experimental work in this research tries to focus effort on finding the approximate locations of leaks in the HVAC residential duct systems to direct better the effort of duct sealing. This technique can provide several advantages over existing techniques. It will eventually have a greater potential to locate leaks so that retrofitting in ducts can be focused on leaky …