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EnerTherm Engineering manufactures process heaters, heat exchangers, thermal oxidisers, incinerators, condensers, dehydrators, and the Omni Vision industrial energy intelligence platform. All products are custom-designed for specific industrial applications and process requirements.

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does EnerTherm Engineering offer CFD simulation and thermal modelling?

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A thermal oxidiser is an industrial system that destroys volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) through controlled high-temperature combustion. EnerTherm Engineering designs and manufactures regenerative, recuperative, and direct-fired thermal oxidisers for chemical, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries.

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Omni Vision is EnerTherm Engineering's industrial energy intelligence platform. It provides turnkey utility metering, CO2 tracking, and AI-powered production KPI intelligence for industrial compliance monitoring and operational optimisation.

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Pressure drop at an abrupt duct exit (K = 1.0).

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Every K = 1 component costs one velocity head — about 60 Pa at 10 m/s in air — and fan power rises with the cube of the flow you push through it.

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Duct Exit Head Loss

Calculates the head-loss coefficient and pressure drop for an abrupt pipe or duct exit into a large receiving space (plenum or atmosphere).

Loss Coefficient

For an abrupt (sudden expansion) exit, all of the kinetic energy of the flow is dissipated by turbulent mixing in the receiving space:

K = 1.0

Pressure Drop

Δ p = K \cdot \frac{1}{2} ρ V^{2} = \frac{1}{2} ρ V^{2}

where $ρ$ is the air density and $V$ is the mean flow velocity in the duct at the exit plane.

Physical Interpretation

The Borda–Carnot (sudden-expansion) theorem gives $K = (1 - A_{1} / A_{2})^{2}$ . When the receiving space is much larger than the duct ( $A_{1} / A_{2} \to 0$ ), this reduces to $K = 1.0$ , meaning the entire dynamic head is lost.

References

Idel'chik, I.E. and Fried, E., Flow Resistance, a Design Guide for Engineers, Taylor & Francis, Washington D.C., 1989, p. 349.

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Pressure drop at an abrupt duct exit (K = 1.0). Enter your inputs and press Calculate — the worked solution shows every step of the method with your numbers substituted in.

K expresses a component's pressure drop in velocity heads: Δp = K·½ρV². A K of 1 means the component destroys exactly the kinetic energy of the approaching flow. It is dimensionless, so the same K applies at any flow rate — the pressure drop then scales with velocity squared.

Compute each component's Δp at its local velocity and add them, together with straight-duct friction. Where the duct area is constant you can equivalently sum the K values first. The result is the static pressure the fan must develop at that flow rate.