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References: Airstreams, Total Pressure and Standard Air

  1. Dynamic pressure - Wikipedia - Defines dynamic pressure as the kinetic energy of a moving fluid per unit volume and relates it to static and total pressure. The physics behind the chapter's velocity pressure and its equation.

  2. Pitot tube - Wikipedia - Explains how a Pitot tube senses total pressure and a static tap senses static pressure, so their difference gives velocity. Matches the chapter's description of measuring velocity pressure in a duct.

  3. Atmospheric pressure - Wikipedia - Covers standard sea-level pressure and how barometric pressure falls with altitude. Supports the chapter's barometric pressure table, the 29.92 in. Hg standard and the altitude correction.

  4. Industrial Ventilation: A Manual of Recommended Practice for Design - American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) - ACGIH - The standard industrial ventilation manual, known for its velocity pressure method of duct design and its tables of minimum conveying velocities. Extends the chapter's VP equation and particulate-laden airstream examples.

  5. Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning: Analysis and Design - Faye C. McQuiston, Jerald D. Parker and Jeffrey D. Spitler - Wiley - A widely used HVAC text whose fans and duct-design chapters work through total pressure, system curves and fan-system interaction. Deepens the chapter's duct system and pressure rise sections.

  6. FanPedia: The Fan & Blower Encyclopedia (PDF) - Twin City Fan & Blower - Source for this chapter's high-temperature packages, drains, high moisture construction, motor enclosures and the Type A, B and C spark-resistant construction definitions, cited by page.

  7. FanPedia online - Twin City Fan & Blower - Online galleries of construction options and technical descriptions, with the downloadable PDF. Useful for browsing the airstream-driven constructions this chapter introduces.

  8. Pressure Blowers - Twin City Fan & Blower - Current catalog page describing pressure blowers for high pressures at relatively low volumes, turndown to zero flow with a discharge damper, and clean or particulate-laden airstreams, as quoted in the chapter.

  9. Fiberglass Fans - Twin City Fan & Blower - Current catalog page for fans designed for moisture-laden, corrosive or chemically contaminated air, describing FRP as more economical than stainless steel. The source for the chapter's corrosive airstream guidance.

  10. NFPA 70 (National Electrical Code) - NFPA - The code under which hazardous locations are classified by class, division and group. The chapter's explosive atmosphere section relies on it for specifying explosion-proof motors.