Grilles Research

FLOW VISUALIZATION ROOM

The Flow Visualization Room allows you to experience a range of Price products, from our wide selection of overhead grilles, registers, and diffusers (GRDs) to our most innovative displacement and underfloor air distribution technologies.

FLOW VISUALIZATION ROOM

This room demonstrates the dynamic effect that a diffuser has on the occupants of a space. In this controlled environment, heated mannequins simulate human bodies. Heat loads from other objects such as computers can also be examined. A sensor tree utilizes velocity and temperature probes to capture and display the results on plasma screens in real time. All of these tools make this room an invaluable resource for the planning and designing of a ventilation system.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Showcases over 20 displacement, underfloor, and overhead diffusers
  • Smoke tests of a number of Price GRDs can be demonstrated with the click of a mouse
  • Highlights Price hydronic products including chilled beams and chilled sails
  • The instrumentation tree is equipped with seven velocity and nine temperature measurement locations
  • Air patterns can be examined as they interact with heated mannequins

MOCK-UP ROOM 2

 

The second of the two Mock-Up Rooms (Throw Room) adapts to the precise design specifications required for accurate testing of thermal comfort, ventilation effectiveness, and air distribution performance.

 

MOCK-UP ROOM 2

Using two custom Price Terminal Units, conditioned air can be precisely controlled by measurement and automation software to match any specified application. This allows all types of air outlets to be tested in a variety of environmental conditions. Room layout and diffuser placement can be customized, allowing products to be extensively tested prior to arriving at the job site.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Ability to test specialized niche products for critical spaces like firing ranges, healthcare areas, and laboratory spaces
  • Dedicated air handlers with automated controls allow supply air to be conditioned to precise design specifications
  • Testing in accordance with ASHRAE Standards 70-2006, 55-2010, and 129-1997 (RA 2002)

COMPUTATIONAL
FLUID DYNAMICS

 

Validate your design before the building or product is built.


Our analysts have years of experience using CFD software and interpreting results. They specialize in building simulation, such as room air distribution and comfort conditions. They also specialize in product optimization and design with the use of visualization methods like iso-surfaces, vector and stream line plots, temperature, pressure, velocity and draft velocity planes.


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Our Affiliations

Customize test conditions & products in a real-time environment.

Price has a large team of experienced and talented engineers who are consistently working on breakthrough ideas.
We are not afraid to move into whole new product categories if we believe we have a contribution to make.

ASHRAE

www.ashrae.org

Founded in 1894, ASHRAE advances human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment focused on building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, refrigeration and sustainability.

INTERTEK

www.intertek.com

The ETL Mark is proof of product compliance to North American safety standards.

UL

www.ul.com

With more than a century of expertise innovating safety solutions from the public adoption of electricity to new breakthroughs in sustainability, renewable energy and nanotechnology.

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