• The stack effect or chimney effect is the movement of air into and out of buildings through unsealed openings, chimneys, flue-gas stacks, or other purposefully...
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  • the effect of a statement, a comment is often used showing the top of the stack before and after the statement; this is known as the stack effect diagram...
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    A flue-gas stack, also known as a smoke stack, chimney stack or simply as a stack, is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure...
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  • Chimney (redirect from Chimney stack)
    smoothly, drawing air into the combustion in what is known as the stack, or chimney effect. The space inside a chimney is called the flue. Chimneys are adjacent...
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    the structure, the greater the buoyancy force, and thus the stack effect. The stack effect helps drive natural ventilation and infiltration. Some cooling...
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    in areas with dust storms. Taller windcatchers also have a stronger stack effect.: Ch. 5  Night-flushing cools the house by increasing ventilation at...
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  • Look up Stack or stack in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stack may refer to: Stack Island, an island game reserve in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia...
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    by the species Macrotermes natalensis. A similar model based on the Stack effect was proposed for mounds with open-chimneys. The tall chimneys are exposed...
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    roof is located an exhaust for stale air. Such system design utilizes stack effect. In a 2018 tour for Variety, the chief engineer of the building noted...
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    supply and exhaust openings. Locate exhaust high above inlet to maximize stack effect. Orient windows across the room and offset from each other to maximize...
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  • the phenomenon but no definite conclusion. Also called chimney effect or stack effect, observes that warm air (from the hot shower) rises out over the...
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    allowed to rise and flow out high building openings to the outside (stack effect), causing cool outside air to be drawn into low building openings. Natural...
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    ranging from 99% in the South to 62% in the West. The urban heat island effect was first scientifically noted by Luke Howard in the 1810s, who described...
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  • across the chimney tops enhances the stack effect. During warm, still days, the building relies mostly on the stack effect while air is taken from the shady...
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    entirely on passive physical phenomena, such as wind pressure, or the stack effect. Natural ventilation openings may be fixed, or adjustable. Adjustable...
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    utilizing the stack effect, in which warm air moves upward and increases the movement of the air within the building. If utilizing the stack effect, buildings...
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    modern furnaces. They usually operate by buoyancy, also known as the stack effect, or the combustion products may be "induced" via a blower. As combustion...
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  • effects of the stack. The stimulating effects of caffeine and ephedrine are an additional contributing factor to weight loss. The stack's effect on the central...
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    transparent material allows sunlight through which, in conjunction with the stack effect, air heating and cooling systems, is designed to maintain an internal...
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    since air in the crawl space might otherwise tend to rise due to the stack effect. Encapsulation involves adding a vapor barrier to the floor, sealing...
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    pressure caused by air rushing through high-rise buildings (referred to as stack effect pressure) while at the same time allowing large numbers of people to...
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    spread of the fire, exacerbated by strong winds, building materials and a stack effect, led to the complete destruction of the complex's 138 apartments, trapping...
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  • heat Noise control Outgassing Particulates Psychrometrics Sensible heat Stack effect Thermal comfort Thermal destratification Thermal mass Thermodynamics...
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    control under the Kyoto Protocol, as they are deemed "super-greenhouse effect" gases.[citation needed] It is possible to convert Freon-11 into three-dimensional...
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    temperature medium, usually ambient air. In order to produce a cooling effect from the higher pressure liquid, the flow of refrigerant entering the evaporator...
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  • pressurization of the building, and by air buoyancy forces known commonly as the stack effect. The infiltration rate is the volumetric flow rate of outside air into...
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    heat Noise control Outgassing Particulates Psychrometrics Sensible heat Stack effect Thermal comfort Thermal destratification Thermal mass Thermodynamics...
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    series is stacks of harvested wheat (or possibly barley or oats: the original French title, Les Meules à Giverny, simply means The Stacks at Giverny...
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    This is accomplished by its innovative solar chimney, which creates a stack effect through the core of the building to ventilate excess heat without the...
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    singular or cross-ventilation, by a simple opening, or enhanced by the stack effect from smaller ingress with larger egress windows and/or clerestory-operable...
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