Ventilation flow in livestock houses is a key parameter for many applications, such as the proper design of air conditioning in the farms or the calculation of airborne emissions. One of the most widespread methods for measuring this flow is based onrecording the velocity of the air leaving the fans in a duct of known diameter (D). Thus, the overall objective of this work is to determine the airflow of a fan by measuring velocities in a duct attached to it. The effect of the distribution and numberof air velocity measurement points and also the length of the duct will be analyzed. A fan of a commercial broiler farm was equipped with a duct with different lengths (0 to 7.5 times the fan diameter). Air velocities in the duct were measured using a hot-wire anemometer. No significant differences were found for the length of the duct and the measurement distance to the fan on the determined airflow. Similarly, the study on the velocity distribution in the duct depending on the distance to the fan resulted in a vertical asymmetric distribution in the vicinity of the fan which is homogenized at approximately 7.5 meters.
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