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#1 aanita

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Posted 22 May 2018 - 12:56 AM

Why some of the air blower suction flow measurement by Kg/hr instead of Nm3/hr or Sm3/hr? I came across many compressors or blowers where suction flow measurement is Kg/hr and not in Nm3/hr especially from manufactureres documents.

 



#2 fallah

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Posted 22 May 2018 - 03:14 AM

aanita,

 

It is due to independence of air (or any other gases) mass flow rate to density which can be changed based on the installation altitude from the sea level...






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