Figure 9 displays the temperature contours; relative humidity contours at cooling towers
exhaust velocity of 10 m/s (1,968 fpm).
A turbocharger uses a radial in axial out turbine configuration which is influenced mainly by the
exhaust velocity. Higher the velocity the better will be the spooling of the turbocharger.
Jet mixing noise is a strong characteristic of jet
exhaust velocity. Consequently, noise reduction strategies are aimed at increasing the bypass ratio to lower nozzle exit velocities and designing bypass and core flows to improve mixing with each other and the atmosphere.
An NTR uses nuclear fission as an energy source instead of chemical combustion, and uses just hydrogen as a propellant, allowing it to achieve a very high
exhaust velocity and high thrust, Discovery News reported.
There is thus almost no limit to the theoretical
exhaust velocity of such technology and, in fact, exhaust velocities of 50,000 to 100,000 m/s--10 to 20 times those of chemical engines--have been demonstrated.
The current Standard 62.1 Informative Appendix F method includes some of these factors but does not include variable wind speed, stack height, plume rise effect caused by
exhaust velocity, or hidden intake reduction factors.
To explore the outer planets in a reasonable time, engines must generate either high
exhaust velocity or high specific impulse.
It may be noted that the plume rise as per ASHRAE 2007 (Equation 8) were functions of the
exhaust velocity ratio [(V.sub.e] / [U.sub.H]) and stack diameter [(d.sub.e]) whilst the 2011 version also incorporates the effects of wind profile and stack-receptor distance (X).