Manual

for
LEAKAGE COST.xls
Made by Mats Lundgren

The background
LEAKAGE COST is a spread sheet to theo- these indata some outdata.
retically and approximately estimate the To give a better understanding and overview
losses in a ventilation system from the as- there is two very simple sketches over the sys-
pect of different tightness classes. tem which are located so that the details of the
The spread sheet gives the possibility to vary sketches and the corresponding data in the
some indata for the system and calculates from spread sheet lines up opposite each other.

The explanations and general information

CELLS with blue figures and with light blue fill
colour are intended for input. Note that also the
tightness classes can be changed.
Cells with green figures shows calculated in-
termediate results.
Cells with red figures shows calculated final
results.
Cells and bars with green fill colour shows
what is delivered from the system.
Cells and bars with yellow fill colour shows the
leakage from the system.
All cells except those for input are locked. You
can anyhow simple remove the protection of the
sheet (no password) and you then have full
freedom to under own responsibility experiment
with texts and formulas.
The columns O, P, Q and S, T, U plus W, X
and Y are hidden. They contain detail calcula-
tions for different pressure parts (high, middle
and low) of the system.
Printout generates three lying A4.

The layout of the ventilation system

THE SYSTEM could have existed of only a fan
and a duct. The introduction of an air heater
means that you can work with a bigger cost
spent on the air. An air cooler can be calculated
in the same way as a heater.
In order to get a reasonable fair adoption to
reality the duct system is divided into three
pressure parts (high, medium and low) with
their respective area automatically put to 40, 35
and 25 %.

The calculation
THE CALCULATION is set on automatic. This
means that the sheet is recalculated at once an
input cell is changed. If you want to do this dif-
ferent you can choose Tools/Alternative…/ Cal-
culation/Manual. The calculation is then done
first when you press F9.
If you input data outside the recommended
value ranges you get an enlightening warning.
The calculation is however done with the values
you put in.
If you want to calculate without heating it is
easiest to give the efficiency of the heater an
absurdly high value (e.g. 10 000 000 %) and
neglect the warning. The same goes for the fan.
If you want to calculate with the same pres-
sure in the whole system it is easiest to give the
different parts the same value.
The fact that the specific heat capacity of the
air (also called heat capacitivity) and its density
changes at different temperatures has not been
involved in the formulas due to its negligible ef-
fect on the result.

The calculation in short

1. FIRST the amount of air that is delivered
from the system is set. This is taken for
granted to be the same for both tightness
classes.
2. Then the leakage for each tightness class is
calculated. It will differ.
3. Then the delivered and the leakage for re-
spective tightness class are summed. This
will then also differ and is consequently what
needs to be fed in to the system. The calcu-
lation is in other words done from bottom
and upwards in the spread sheet.
4. At last the difference between the two tight-
ness classes is calculated, in the column to
the right. Since what is delivered according
to paragraph 1 was assumed to be the same
there will always be zeroes at the bottom in
this column.