Exhaust hood push-pull

Push-pull exhaust See Push-pull hood. 

BEOs are most often used for point sources or small line or surface sources. See Chapter 7 for descriptions of sources. BEOs are sometimes used for lines or surfaces when the source is moving along the line or on the surface. This naturally demands the exhaust to move with (or be moved with) the source movements (e.g., during painting or seam welding). They have also been used for side suction from baths and tanks-- and these exhausts are usually called rim exhausts see Rim Exhausts. However, for these sources push-pull systems (Section 10.4.3) are often more efficient. Side hoods can also be used, e.g., when molten metal is poured however, in these cases an enclosed exhaust is more efficient. 

Rim exhausts are suitable for area sources of contaminant. They are limited in the area over which they can draw with adequate velocity. In practice, the slot hood should be within 0.6 m of the far edge of the source. For an open surface tank this means that a slot hood on one long side is necessary for tanks up to 0.6 m in width hoods on both long sides are necessary for tanks up to 1.2 m in width and rim exhaust is not practical for tanks wider than 1.2 m. For those situations, push-pull ventilation or enclosure type hoods are recommended.- ... 

Push-pull ventilation systems for open surface tanks consist of two components the push flow is generated by a jet or series of jets that are blown across the surface of the tank towards an exhaust hood along one side of the tank, which pulls and removes the fluid from the jet containing the contaminant. This is shown schematically in Fig. 10.69. 

This section deals mainly with side push-pull ventilation. Center push-pull ventilation is also sometimes used, where two jets of air are blown from a central pipe towards two parallel exhaust hoods at opposite ends of the tank. Much of what vve say about side push-pull systems is equally valid to center push-pull. 

More recently, in the middle 1990s, the UK s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) also reviewed the push-pull system. Hollis and Fletcher offer a comprehensive literature review on push-pull ventilation and note that the main conclusions of previous work on push-pull ventilation of tanks are that the control is primarily supplied by the inlet jet, forming a wall jet along the surface of the tank, and that the main purpose of the exhaust hood is to remove the air and contaminant contained within the push jet. 

Figure 10.87 shows the fundamental operation of the push-pull flow. The suction hood should simultaneously exhaust the pushed air (contaminated supply... 

In designing the push-pull hood, one always applies a safety factor, , resulting in the exhaust flow rate for design, which is expressed as the following ... 

A push-pull hood uses a stream of air from a supply to push contaminants toward an exhaust system. 

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