Draft decrease

Draft indication. With the exception of extrusion, machining, and pul-trusion, all of the plastics processes require draft. It is critical that the part be drawn with draft in order to determine what the draft will do to the design. Draft can cause wall thicknesses to double or to disappear altogether. Failure to draw the part with draft can lead to fitments which do not fit and molds which cannot be repaired. Draft is usually specified as +x°/side (or x°/side) and placed on the dimension taken from that point (1.000 + 1°/S). Thus, the designation + VIS indicates that a 1° draft is intended to increase from the point of the dimension so indicated. Conversely, the designation - VIS would indicate that the draft decreases from the point dimensioned by VIS. 

In some texts, it is advised to maintain a minimum safe draft of 0.05 inch H O. However, there is a problem with this target. The problem is wind. Wind can create a variable draft of plus or minus 0.10 inch HjO or more. If the draft decreases, as the gusts of wind come and go, then the heater may go positive and a personnel hazard is created. Thus, the minimum safe draft depends upon the variability of the wind. Not at grade, but the wind speed at the top of the stack. 

When draft decreases, due to a reduction in wind, air flow into the burners also decreases. If this causes the firebox to drop below the point... 

Natural-draft cooling towers are extremely sensitive to air-inlet conditions owing to the effects on draft. It can rapidly be estabUshed from these approximate equations that as the air-inlet temperature approaches the water-inlet temperature, the allowable heat load decreases rapidly. For this reason, natural-draft towers are unsuitable in many regions of the United States. Figure 10 shows the effect of air-inlet temperature on the allowable heat load of a natural-draft tower for some arbitrary numerical values and inlet rh of 50%. The trend is typical. 

Local air motion is another thermal nonuniformity that can cause a local cooling of the skin and the feeling of a draft. Draft discomfort from local air motion increases as the air temperature decreases below skin temperature. Fluctuations in the local air motion increase the perception of drafts and should be avoided. The unsteadiness of air motion is often described in terms of its turbulence intensity (Tu) ... 

A laboratory study of surface-treatment tanks by Braconnier et al." showed the effects of cross-drafts and obstructions to airflow on capture efficiency. They found that, without obstructions, capture efficiency decreased with increasing cnrss-draft velocity but the importance of this effect depended on freeboard height. In their study, cross-draft direction was always perpendicular to the hood face and directed opposite to the hood suction flow. Follow cro.ss-draft velocities (less than 0.2 m s ), efficiency remained close to 1.0 for the three freeboard heights studied. With higher cross-draft velocities, efficiency decreased as freeboard height decreased. For example, when the crossdraft velocity was 0.55 m s , efficiency decreased from 0.90 to 0.86 to 0.67 as freeboard height decreased from 0.3 m to 0.15 m to 0.1 m, respectively. 

A similar effect was observed for changes in hood flow rate. With a fixed cross-draft velocity, capture efficiency decreased with decreasing hood flow rate. This effect was much more important when freeboard height was small. Their results showed that when hood flow rate was 1.5 m s m, efficiency remained close to 1.0 as long as the cross-draft velocin. was less than 0.45 in s. The most severe conditions tested were a hood flow rate equal to 0.33 m s" nr- and crossdraft velocity equal to 1.15 m s. Under these conditions, capture efficiency was equal to 0.83 for freeboard hei t equal to 0.3 m, but decreasing to 0.4 when freeboard height was decreased to 0.1 m. 

For this safety criterion, we consider the fact that as the velocity decreases with increasing distance from the surface of the tank, it will reach some critical velocity, at which the induced movement of air will be insufficient to overcome the effects of crossdrafts or the buoyancy velocity At this point, we must ensure that the concentration is at, or below, some critical allowable concentration, Qfj,. The values of the critical concentration and velocity will depend (tn particular circumstances, but it is worth noting that must be at least equal to I g in order to overcome the effects of buoyancy, and the appropriate value will depend on the crossdrafts, which typically vary between 0.05 m to 0.5 in s F For the sake of providing examples, we have chosen to be the maximum of the buoyancy velocity and the typical cross-draft velocity. For the critical concentration we have chosen two values, C = 0.05 and C = 0.10. The actual value used by a designer would depend on the toxicity of the contaminant in question. 

High supply air velocities or cool supply air can cause uncomfortable drafts on the worker. Nonuniform supply air velocities with high turbulence intensity may result in decreased capture efficiency, increased contaminant spread, and increased thermal discomfort. 

For a constant exhaust flow rate, an increase in supply airflow provides better operator protection or production protection, but it also increases contaminant spread and risk of draft. Any decrease in supply airflow rate will result in a reduction of the design conditions of the operator or product protection. 

Hz and decreases at 33.4Hz. By comparing data of different feed point positions, it was found that the nucleation rates for the experiments with the feed point located near the impeller were higher than those for feed points outside the draft tube. 

Sensing heads should be located in draft-free areas where possible, as air flowing past the sensors normally increases drift of calibration, shortens head life, and decreases sensitivity. Air deflectors are available from sensor manufacturers and should be utilized in any areas where significant air flow is anticipated (such as air conditioner plenum applicaiion.s). Additionally, sensors should be located, whenever possible, in loca[ion.s which are relatively free from vibration and easily accessed for calibration and maintenance. Obviously, this carmot always be accomplished. It usually is difficult, for example, to locate sensors in the tops of compressor buildings at locations which are accessible and which do not vibrate. 

Cross-sectional area There is a direct relationship between flue flow and the cross-sectional area. The draft is unaffected by the cross-sectional area but the frictional losses decrease as the area is increased, resulting in greater flow. Too great an area, however, will lead to a low velocity with its attendant problems of down-wash and possible condensation. 

In addition, the nurse determines if any controllable factors (eg, uncomfortable position, cold room, drafts, bright lights, noise, thirst) may be decreasing the patient s tolerance to pain. If these factors are present, the nurse corrects them as soon as possible. However, Hie nurse should not deny pain drugs or make the patient wait for the drug. Pain medication is delivered in a timely manner. 

In the Fig.4, it can be seen that the gas hold-up in both riser and downcomer decreases with increasing the draft-tube horn-mouth diameter and approaches the maximum when the draft-tube hom-mouth diameter is 1.05m. However, due to the gas hold-up decreases more in the downcomer, the gas hold-up difference between the downcomer and the riser increases. Therefore, the apparent density difference between the riser and the downcomer enhances, causing higher liquid superficial velocity in the downcomer and in the riser With increasing the hom-mouth diameter. Fig.5 also shows that the existence of hom-mouth promotes the ability to separate gas from liquid and decreases the amount of gas entrained into the downcomer. 

The height of the draft-tube also Influences the flow characteristics in the ALR. Fig.9 and Fig. 10 show that the liquid superficial velocity increases with increasing the hei t (H) of the draft-tube, while the liquid superficial velocity remains approximately unchanged when H exceeds 0.51m. With a hi er position of draft-tube, the flow area at the outlet of the draft-tube becomes larger, so the liquid velocity at the outlet decreases. 

The discovery of two new elements started a frenetic race to find more. Actinium was soon unearthed (Debierne 1900) and many other substances were isolated from U and Th which also seemed to be new elements. One of these was discovered somewhat fortuitously. Several workers had noticed that the radioactivity of Th salts seemed to vary randomly with time and they noticed that the variation correlated with drafts in the lab, appearing to reflect a radioactive emanation which could be blown away from the surface of the Th. This Th-emanation was not attracted by charge and appeared to be a gas, °Rn, as it turns out, although Rutherford at first speculated that it was Th vapor. Rutherford swept some of the Th-emanation into a jar and repeatedly measured its ability to ionize air in order to assess its radioactivity. He was therefore the first to report an exponential decrease in radioactivity with time, and his 1900 paper on the subject introduced the familiar equation dN/dt = - iN, as well as the concept of half-lives (Rutherford 1900a). His measured half-life for the Th emanation of 60 seconds was remarkably close to our present assessment of 55.6 seconds for °Rn. 

Behavioral and environmental modifications may significantly improve dry eye, especially in mild cases. Evaluate the patient s environment for air drafts. Consider adding a humidifier in low-humidity areas. Schedule regular breaks from computer work or reading. Lower the computer screen to below eye level to decrease lid aperture. Evaluate medication use and make therapeutic substitutions to medications that do not exacerbate dry eye. Spectacle sideshields or goggles may reduce tear evaporation.30... 

Understanding the effect of reactor diameter on the volumetric mass transfer coefficient is critical to successful scale up. In studies of a three-phase fluidized bed bioreactor using soft polyurethane particles, Karamanev et al. (1992) found that for a classical fluidized bed bioreactor, kxa could either increase or decrease with a change in reactor diameter, depending on solids holdup, but for a draft tube fluidized bed bioreactor, kxa always increased with increased reactor diameter. 

If substrate inhibition exists, a well-mixed bioreactor is desirable. Mixing in three-phase fluidized bed bioreactors can be increased by adding an external recycle loop, by inserting a draft tube in the reactor, or by decreasing the height to diameter ratio. 

These parts are used in fluidized beds for various purposes. For example, gas distributors and various types of baffles are installed to decrease the size of the bubbles. Moreover, draft tubes are used to enhance gas or solid circulation. Other devices such as horizontal baffles limit circulation and backmixing of solids and gas. Horizontal or vertical tubes are used for heat management. Devices used to control or improve fluidization behavior, to improve fluidization of cohesive particles or to achieve solids recovery are within the various internals met in fluidized bed reactors (Kelkar and Ng, 2002). Immersed tubes in small diameter beds may lead to slugging. Furthermore, attrition of particle breakage may change the size distribution and possibly change the fluidization behavior. 

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