ABSTRACT
Because of the importance of indoor environment to human comfort and health,
people pay attention not only to the comfort but also to the indoor air quality. In order to
match such requirements, various kinds of air-conditioning devices and air-dispersion
systems have been developed. Fabric ducts are one of the newly developed devices.
Fabric duct is made of special fabric. The air is discharged through a combination of
porous fabrics, engineered orifices and linear vents to meet a large range of indoor
environment requirements. A reasonable selection of the fabric duct can ensure the
indoor comfort, and at the same time it can filtrate the air through the fabric material
because of its characteristics to obtain clean air. The present research focuses on the
academic analysis and experimental investigation on the characteristics of air
distribution supplied by the fabric ducts. Including to take a large space building with
fabric duct as research object in University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,
systematically analyzes the characteristics of air distribution of fabric duct and the
building environment characteristics based on measurement contents.
Fabric duct has several air-dispersion forms, so it is very important to obtain
scientific and reasonable selection and calculation in the application of project. This
paper introduces the model and characteristics of fabric duct in different buildings, and
also gives an introduction about calculation methods of fabric duct. There is a academic
calculation and analysis about pure orifice fabric duct, the results indicate that
air-dispersion characteristics are affected by many factors including the static pressure,
the numbers and the sizes of orifices, a function must be built about the static pressure,
air volume, the numbers and sizes of orifices and the distance between the orifices. This
paper also makes an analysis and calculation about the static pressure and the
characteristics of porous along the fabric duct about pure porous fabric duct. The results
indicate that a function is existed about the static pressure, air volume, the diameter and
leakage coefficient of fabric duct.
A series of measurements of pressure and velocity along the fabric duct except for
velocity environment in a large space building were carried out, the real measurement
conditions were used for an analysis and calculation. The results indicate that the
frictional resistance is very small along the fabric duct and the pressure is reducing
slowly and equably; the testing of results pressure is also steady. The velocity of orifices
is related with static pressure and velocity pressure. Though the velocity pressure