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Barometric Pressure Relief Damper Page 1 of 9William A. Greco
w2gre@verizon.net
Trident3June 2009
Summary
This report will show that simple* barometric pressure relief** dampers can bestatically calibrated accurately by the use of mathematical principles.
As no meansof calibration markings are included on balance weights on Barometric Pressure Relief Dampers, the proper calibration to initially set a given damper is usually confined toturning on the system, manually and dynamicaly setting the damper by the balancerwhile the system is in operation.* Simple in that only gravitational and pressure control is available and no electronicmeans of operation is provided for damper operation.** Relief = indicating that the damper must open at a preset minimum value.
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Most true Barometric Pressure Relief Dampers have an axle that is off center withrespect to thier perifery.Some Barometric Pressure Relief Dampers are constructed with an axle that is centeredand require a balance weight that can be radially offset. However dampers of this typeshould be avoided as their actual operation is in doubt.
A Barometric Pressure Relief Damper with an equal amount of pressure on both sides of the axle cannot producethe forces of velocity pressure to cause an imbalance that percipitates dynamicmovement.
Figure-1 shows a Barometric Pressure Relief Damper that has equal blade areas onboth the top and bottom which corresponds to an equal velocity pressure on each side of the damper axle.
 
Barometric Pressure Relief Damper Page 2 of 9William A. Greco
w2gre@verizon.net
Trident3June 2009Figure 2 indicates a Barometric Pressure Relief Damper operated by pendulum actionof the attached weight, which is set to a desired angle by means of an adjustable collar.The shaded part of the circle in figure-3 represents the smaller area of a BarometricPressure Relief Damper with an offset axle.
 
Barometric Pressure Relief Damper Page 3 of 9William A. Greco
w2gre@verizon.net
Trident3June 2009Refering to figure-3 shown on page-2 , the areas A1 and A2 of the circle can becalculated thus:AndSubstituting equation-1 into equation-2:And it follows that:
222
4hCA2 = 0.392equation-234hgood up to a semi-circle
2222
22hr-h4hA2 = 0.392equation-334h
22222
22hr-h4hA1 = r0.392eqution-434h
2
C = 22hr-hequation-1
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