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I'm working on a load calculation for a new Polar Bear facility going up in a zoo. There are six bear holding rooms and am not quite sure how much heat loss Polar Bears produce.

Any help would...

That is agreed.

However, there will also be a heat loss when the sterilizer is opened from the other room. Say the sterilizer is done cleaning the tools, and someone goes to open it up right...

Hello, I have a question regarding heat loss for a sterilizer/autoclave. I am looking at a cut sheet for an AMSCO Century medium steam sterilizer 26" x 37.5" - North America. I see that the loss...

There is a dedicated outside air unit supplying the outside air, so the air is heated.

The furnace is serving a laboratory, with hood exhaust. Your explanation has answered my question.
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Would there be any issues with putting a motorized damper and a volume damper in the same outside air duct? I am working on a project that requires both, and have them both shown on the same outside...

I am designing the ductwork for a hospital expansion project and I have been in somewhat of a predicament with the atrium. There is a 34'-0" ceiling height and there are murals on opposite sides of...

I am in the process of calculating the load that 70540 cfm of outside air would create.

Would I use this formula?
Q=cfm x delta T x 1.08

Also, for the delta T, that would be the temperature...

I am doing a load calculation on an existing building and the windows are being called out as "Aluminum Window". Does this mean that the frame is Aluminum? I wouldn't understand why there would be...

Actually I am the engineer (ok maybe not the engineer, but designer). The only reason I was asking is because at my previous place of employment, we never put turning vanes in return air duct. We...

The system is not very complex. There's a plenum return in a retail space and just a vertical return duct dropping down from the rooftop unit, turning so the duct is running horizontal and then...

Are turning vanes required for return air elbows?

I am selecting an intake hood (having no previous experience doing so) for an air handler pushing 6000 cfm. I hope this isn't a stupid question, but do I select the hood for the amount of outside...

I'm working on a project where there is a space that requires a VAV box. I am using a fan powered box. There is a medium pressure supply main to tap into to get air to the box. How do I know if I...

Yes, this clears things up a lot. So if I just added the area of the partitions of the restrooms in the load, instead of adding new zones for the restrooms (which the boss doesn't like doing),...

Well thank you. The problem actually got worked out. The old owner had been working on the thermostat and the other electrical componets before he sold the house. The house sat vacant for several...

Yea we use HAP software and there are three sections to add in safety factors. We always add 10% in all three.

They are Cooling Sensible, Cooling Latent and Heating.

I pretty much follow...

Thanks for the help, I will pass this info along and hopefully he can get this worked out.

A buddy of mine just purchased a home with a Ruud Central H&A. His thermostat is set on 78 and his first power bill was $800.00 this month. He measured his meter for the first 12 hours with the AC...

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Not dishwasher exhaust, there's a steamer in the stock room of a commercial retail store and an exhaust fan serving the steamer sized at 400 cfm.

Does exhaust air get sized differently if it is exhausting steam? I'm working on a job where there is an exhaust fan sized at 400 cfm that will be exhausting steam. I have it sized at 10x10, but...

Thanks for the responses, this helps a lot. I know the importance of load calcs, but it just seems like there's so much you can do to change things around to how you like them, or to meet certain...

OK thanks. Thats what I thought. I work with a guy who thinks that everything should be at 250 square foot per ton. I can't seem to break him on this either. He does load calcs, then he just...

I was just curious to know if there is a rule of thumb for square feet per ton, or does that depend on the location, or what? Generally I go by what the load summary's tell me, but I know some HVAC...

Which would be most efficient, a round branch duct tapping out of the bottom of a round duct, or a round branch duct tapping out of the bottom of a rectangular duct? It's in a plenum, so looks do...