Thermal Comfort
This is an undesired current of air felt on the skin surface, caused by high air velocity.
What is a draft?
The number of decibels of each octave band removed from a sound source by installing a Silencer Unit.
What is Insertion Loss or IL?
This distance is measured at terminal velocities of 50 fpm, 100 fpm, and 150 fpm.
What is Throw?
The largest air distribution company in North America.
What is Price Industries?
The summer Olympics were hosted in Atlanta in this year.
What is 1996?
This is the ASHRAE Standard that provides methods to quantify thermal comfort.
What is ASHRAE Standard 55 – Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy?
This is a typical single number rating to describe indoor sound pressure.
What is NC?
This is the ideal inlet condition to achieve catalogue performance
What is 3 straight duct diameters (ASHRAE Standard 70)?
The US Headquarters of Price is located in this state.
What is Georgia (GA)?
This is the largest beverage company in the world, whose headquarters are in Atlanta, GA.
What is Coca-Cola?
This is the minimum percentage of occupants we strive to make comfortable with our design.
What is 80% of occupants?
This specific-grade of material is used for silencers when corrosive air containing acids is present.
What is 316 Stainless Steel?
This category of diffusers are least impacted by poor inlet conditions?
What are radial diffusers (Square Cone Diffuser, Square Plaque Diffuser, Round Cone Diffuser)?
The year that Price was founded.
What is 1946?
Atlanta is the 3rd highest-producing city in this industry, behind #1 Los Angeles and #2 New York City.
What is What is the TV & Film Industry?
The temperature at which water, through evaporation, can bring moist air to saturation adiabatically.
What is Wet Bulb Temperature?
This particular Price silencer model can be used on top of chiller discharge fans due to it's optimized internal geometry that allows for lower pressure drop performance.
What is an RH (Rectangular High velocity) Silencer?
This is a value that quantifies a ventilation system’s efficiency at removing contaminants from a zone.
What is Ventilation Effectiveness? (Or Zone Air Distribution Effectiveness)
This free software provides AD product performance selection, submittal and schedule creation.
What is All-In-One (AIO)?
This is the name of the busiest airport in the world.
What is Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport?
These are the Six (6) primary variables that affect occupant thermal comfort.
What are (1) Air Temperature, (2) Humidity, (3) Air Velocity, (4) Radiant Heat, (5) Clothing, and (6) Metabolic Rate?
For a young ear, this is the upper limit frequency that a human ear can hear?
20Khz
This is the tendency for high velocity air to cling to a hard surface.
What is coanda effect (or surface effect)?
These are three different cities where Price Industries owns factories for manufacturing air distribution products.
What are:
- Winnipeg, MB
- Phoenix, AZ (Casa Grande)
- Atlanta, GA (Suwanee, Winder)
The Lions and Tigers are kept in a different part of Michigan than this city known as both "The Celery City" & "The Mall City."
What is Kalamazoo MI?