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AIR EXHAUST FAN [2 records]

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Record 1 2016-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cooling and Ventilating Systems
  • Nuclear Power Stations
CONT

Report for the Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor (BGRR) Decommissioning. ... Building 704 also contains a secondary air exhaust fan that drew suction on the concrete secondary air exhaust duct and discharged to the fan outlet duct. The secondary air exhaust duct could also be connected to the above ground duct via a by-pass duct, which was used to provide flow when the secondary fan was out of service.

OBS

air exhaust fan: term extracted from the “Glossaire de l’énergie nucléaire” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes de refroidissement et de ventilation
  • Centrales nucléaires
OBS

ventilateur d'extraction d'air : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’énergie nucléaire» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cooling and Ventilating Systems
  • HVAC Distribution Systems
  • Building Ventilation
DEF

A fan which withdraws air from a localized area, such as a toilet, from which it must not return to the central air-treatment system.

CONT

Blowing vs. exhausting. ... In the case of a fan with duct connections at both inlet and outlet the performance curve will be substantially the same whether the fan is operating as a blower or exhauster.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes de refroidissement et de ventilation
  • Distribution et évacuation (chauffage et conditionnement d'air)
  • Ventilation (Construction)
CONT

Suivant la position du ventilateur sur ce réseau [de transport d'air], le ventilateur est dit introducteur, extracteur ou recycleur; [...] un extracteur d'air reprend l'air du local et l'évacue à l'extérieur du local [...]

CONT

Cette expulsion [de l'air vicié] peut être obtenue naturellement [...], mais on la réalise le plus souvent à l'aide de ventilateurs aspirants appliqués à la paroi, sur le toit, ou au moyen d'installations centralisées d'aspiration.

OBS

Le terme «ventilateur-aérateur» semble être un spécifique. Il ne figure d'ailleurs plus dans LAROG 1982, qui a succédé à LGRAN 1960.

Key term(s)
  • ventilateur d'aspiration

Spanish

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