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Showing posts with label roof ventilation system roof ventilator ventilation system available turbine vents. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Ventilation Systems can be active or passive

Ventilation Systems can be active or passive. Turbine air ventilators are passive ventilation systems. Other examples of passive ventilation systems are the traditional metal pot vents and the popular ridge and roof ventilation systems. Passive ventilation systems do not need electricity to work. Whereas, an active ventilation systems could be an electric powered whole house fan or a powered roof ventilator.
Turbine air ventilator consists of a turbine mounted on a sheet metal cylinder. They are normally installed like roof line vents along the face of the roof. When the wind blows, the turbine spins which draws air up out of the attic. Passive turbine air ventilator need wind to be effective, but active turbine vents are not dependent on wind. Turbine air ventilator are round metal vents with fins in them. They normally stick up from the roof surface to about 18 to 20 inches. The fins are actually located in a dome shaped structure that spins when the wind blows across it. The faster the wind, the faster the turbine air ventilator will rotate. Turbine air ventilator are effective in replacing the hot air in your attic within minutes. Wind blows across the fins in the roof turbine and it exhausts the heat build up.
The mechanics involved in the air movement is very simple. During warm weather, the air present inside the attic heats up and since warm air rises, it tends to rise up. When the turbines rotate, they suck the warm air out through the vent thereby bringing out a drop in temperature in the attic. Turbine vents have been vastly used for many years in residential, agricultural, commercial and industrial buildings. They are cheap and easy to install and can pump out vast amounts of air from the attic. exhaust fan wind fan air ventilation systems roof ventilator

Monday, June 18, 2007

How long you with: roof ventilation system

Roof Ventilation System The roof ventilation system is working from last15 years and continuous worked as a roof ventilator. These systems are invisible for us but they create a system through which air enters your attic space and then smoothly flows from your attic space. No matter what the season of the year, the air exits the attic space through small gaps at the peak of the roof of your house. These gaps can be covered with any number of different products that allow air to pass smoothly, but prohibit rain water, snow and insects. You can't see these vents as they are almost always covered by the roofing shingles at the peak.
The basic mechanics of the air movements in the room are quite simple. During warm weather, the air inside your rooms are heats up. Since warm air rises, it tends to float out of the high ventilation spaces. This convection movement naturally draws in cooler outside air to replace the hot air that just exited.
Air that blows across the roof in that any season of the year also acts to vacuum air from the roof space. The wind blowing across the roof can create a partial vacuum on the leeward side of a roof.
But in my opinion, there is a better ventilation system available that pulls vast quantities of air from an attic space no matter from which direction the air blows. I am talking about the traditional wind turbine vents. Some people call these type of ventilation as a whirlybird vents. They are round metal ventilators that have fins in them and stick up from the roof surface perhaps 19 - 21 inches. The fins are located in a dome-shaped housing that spins each time the wind blows across it. As faster the wind speed, the faster the turbine will rotates.
As we have seen that the turbine vents have been used from many years in the residential, commercial, agricultural and industrial buildings. The vents are very affordable, easy to install, and they pump vast amounts of air from attic spaces, and give you cool and healthy environment that is good for your health and buildings.