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STATIC PRESSURE CALCULATION SHEET

Disclaimer!!
USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! HIRE A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER to design, specify, test, and certify performance of
collection system if you have a commercial or an industrial application, allergies, other medical problems, people worki
you, a large shop, work with hazardous materials, or are subject to regulatory oversight. Don Beale, Bill Pentz, American
and all other references and links cannot be held liable for this calculation's applicability to your specific situation.

Warning this is only an approximation!


This information provides small shop woodworkers with a better sense of what they need to collect the wood dust in their shops.
calculations are approximations based upon values from industrial fittings, pipes and dust hoods which may be significantly differ
what you may use. Moreover, these calculations also require you to add in other known large losses such as those that occur wit
of separators (trashcan or cyclone) and filters.

Introduction: We built and shared this calculator because most small shop woodworkers don't realize how much their duct size
impacts dust collection. Most wrongly think of their dust collector as a huge shop vacuum and that causes all kinds of problems. U
shop vacuum that can lift a column of water 35" or more, the blowers used in dust collection generate only a tiny fraction of that s
at dust collector blower pressures will barely compress air at all, so almost any small pipe, bend , wye fitting, small port, restrictio
other obstruction will act just like a partially opened water valve and kill our airflow. This leaves us with two choices. We can add
horsepower and larger blower until we overcome all that resistance or design a system with minimal resistance to permit us to us
smallest, most cost efficient blower.

Tool Modifications: To meet government air quality mandates that went into effect in the late eighties, the major suppliers of dus
collection equipment had to take a fresh look at dust collection. Until then dust collection meant keeping shop floors clear of the d
chips that would otherwise be swept up with a broom. These firms found that to also ensure collecting the fine airborne dust they
collect the dust right at the source, meaning each tool as the dust was made. If they let the fine airborne dust escape into the air,
hours for a good exhaust fan or air cleaner to bring the dust levels down to low enough to meet government standards. They foun
the air streams from our tool blades, bits, cutters, belts, motor fans, etc. from spraying this fine dust all over, they had to redo alm
stationary tool. Almost all required a new hood, larger ports, internal ducting, and sometimes new pannels. Small shop owners m
similar changes to our tools if we want good fine dust collection.

Dust Collection Air Flow Requirements: The major dust collection suppliers also did the testing to determine what was needed
fine dust collection. We need enough airspeed to move the dust and enough air volume to carry the dust. Air engineers long ago
that it takes an air speed of roughly 3700 feet per minute (FPM) to move the chips and heavier sawdust up vertical ducting. The f
airborne dust only required moving about 50 FPM, so no additional air speed was needed for good fine dust collection. Most sus
air volume would be small as well, so existing systems would work just fine. The testing showed a totally different story. If a tool w
from the ground up with good fine dust collection engineered in to protect and control the fine dust until it can be collected, a goo
vacuum that only moves 50 cubic feet per minute (CFM) provides good fine dust collection. Unfortunately, in our real world most
shop owners buy older and hobbyist tools that have little to no fine dust collection built in. Our larger tools are identical to smaller
commercial tools that air engineers found almost all need modified and then supplied with about 800 CFM air volume to provide
dust collection.

At first this does not make sense because it takes almost double the volume of air to collect fine dust that takes a fraction as muc
airspeed to move. We already know this is true if we think about using our shop vacuums. They only pick up right next to the inle
because sucked air comes from all directions at once causing airspeed to decrease at roughly pi times the cube of the distance f
inlet. A monster 800 CFM dust collector blower that moves 4000 FPM right next to the inlet, moves less than the 50 FPM we nee
overcome the room air currents and collect the fine dust just nine inches away! To keep commercial shops from being closed due
indoor air quality air engineers had to roughly double the total airflow plus redo most machine hoods, ports and internal ducting. S
shop owners must do the same if we want good fine dust collection. Moreover, many woodworking unions and doctors now say t
standards are too low because workers keep getting ill, most hobbyists should build their dust collection systems to provide 1000

Click here to see the Exhaust Requirements for Woodworking Document


Click here to see the Exhaust Hoods samples
Basic System Design:
There are two real ways to design your dc system in order to get optimum results.

1) Commercial: Size your ducting/dc for the total requirements of the entire shop with NO BLAST GATES all. Air engineers des
commercial dust collection systems with all ducting runs are open at once to collect the dust from all machines running at the sam
All ductwork drops are sized to provide the minimum cfm requirements for each machine. The main becomes a collection of ever
sized pipes sized to meet the CFM of all downstream ductwork. The Air Laws show us that to double the airflow we need eight t
power. Just a two person shop running a couple of runs at the same time requires a 10 hp motor turning a huge 18" diameter blo
impeller. Motors this big normally only work with three-phase power, require commercial instead of residential incoming power, an
much heavier wiring than found in most residences.

2) Small Shop: Most small shop owners cannot build dust collection systems similar to commercial systems because we lack the
service, wiring, and don't want to pay the cost to buy or run a huge motor. As a result, our systems are designed to use the sma
more efficient blowers that can only collect from one machine at a time. All other ducting runs are closed off with blast gates. T
us use a blower just big enough to meet the airflow needed for fine dust collection at their largest machine and highest resistance
run. We should size our ducting and dust collector for our max cfm requirements at our largest machine and size the ductwork fo
longest possible run. This will allow only one machine at a time but there will be no build up and all dust and lets you move mach
around without needing to buy a bigger blower and motor.

Main Duct: If you want the most possible CFM you need the biggest duct you can get that keeps the air velocity ample to keep th
moving instead of clogging your ducting. Most hobbyist vendors sell 4" dust collection duct and flex hose as their standard. This w
to collect chips, but strangles the airflow needed for good fine dust collection. A typical 2 hp hobbyist dust collector with a 12" dia
impeller moves a maximum of about 1200 CFM, but a 4" duct airflow drops that airflow to only about 450 CFM. It takes a 5 hp mo
turning a 16.5" diameter impeller to force a 4" duct to carry 800 CFM. Most prefer a less expensive solution. In addition to mainta
airflow, our blowers must keep the duct airspeed high enough so we don't get plugging or piles of wood dust. Dust piles in ducts
fire hazard and ruin both blowers and filters when they break loose and go slamming around. Air engineers found designing for a
speed of 4000 FPM keeps the ducting clear. Because FPM=CFM/duct size, a little math shows we need 6" diameter ducting to m
CFM at 4000 FPM. Most hobbyists need all 6" hoods, 6" main ducting lines, and 6" down drops.

Down Drops: Commercial dust collection systems size each down drop to carry just the air needed for good collection for each s
tool. They also use many different sized ducting runs for the mains to keep the airspeed ample to avoid plugging and piles. This e
being so complex that most ducting engineers use commercial programs to compute all the ducting sizes, parts, etc. Sadly, a num
firms now offer similar services to hobbyists using these same commercial programs. The results are a nightmare because any ti
use a down drop smaller than our main in a one ducting run open at a time hobbyist system, the small down drop strangles our n
airflow. A 4" down drop connected to a 6" main looks pretty and appears to work well, but drops the main airspeed to under 2500
immediately building up dangerous dust piles that can grow huge. These piles pose a serious fire hazard and when the airflow ge
restored, these piles break loose and slam into things potentially ruining motor bearings, impellers, and your filters.

Blast Gates: Normally we put a blast gate as close as we can to the main for each machine to leave the least possible pipe to bu
piles when their runs are not open. Putting the blast gate down low lets lots of debris build up in the pipe. When the gate gets ope
material can slam around potentially ruining blowers and especially filters.

Return Duct: If there will be return duct moving the cleaned air back inside your shop from an outside cyclone, it only needs to p
2000 FPM speed. To determine that return duct size simply select the size to run at 2000 FPM or less with your max CFM machin
it in each branch calc. The same applies when sizing the return for a cyclone or muffler.

Tool Ports: It takes one 6" port to support the 800 CFM required for most larger hobbyist machines. For machines with two picku
hobbyists should generally use a wye that splits their 6" ducting into two runs. The smaller should use 3.5" diameter ducting and
larger should use 5" ducting connected to a 5" port. This combination maintains the same area as the 6" main to prevent airflow
restrictions, plugging, dust piles, and poor dust collection. Generally, we have to modify our hobbyist tools to add the 3.5", 5", and
Dust collectors do not have enough pressure to provide good fine dust collection for tools that cannot be modified to have at leas
diameter ports. Tools with smaller ports require use of a shop vacuum that generates at least 60" of pressure to force the air colle
needed plus often a movable hood and downdraft table.
Resistance Calculation: Small shop owners only use one ducting run open at a time, so we size our systems based upon what
power our largest need. Knowing that most will move their machines around over time, it is best to figure what it takes to power o
machine overhead and our longest ducting run. The longer the hose and the more bends and fittings we use in our ducting runs
machine collection, the higher the pressure drop and bigger blower it will take. Hobbyists need to calculate the the resistance of o
with the most hoods and ducting overhead, then add to that the resistance of all the pipe and fittings in their largest ducting run, a
add the other overhead resistance including cyclone, muffler, and filters. That total resistance corrected for air flow loss gives the
pressure drop in our system. We use that total worst case resistance with a standard engineering fan table to size our blower mo
impeller diameter. This simple resistance calculator helps you work through what you need for your own shop.

Assumptions, comments, and notes:

These loss factors are based on the following assumptions:

1 The system is made of 3.5", 4", 5", 6", 7" or 8" metal dust collection ducting and nothing smaller than 3.5" duct will be use
anywhere because we know that would kill the airflow from our blower needed for fine dust collection.
2 Loss factors are based on metal with a roughness factor .0005 feet
3 Pipe loss factor based on 4000 FPM.
4 One VP acceleration factor is included in the hood entry.
5 Hood entry loss is for a flanged pipe entry. OTHERS VARY - SEE FAQ
6 90 loss factor is for smooth stamped steel, R/D = 2.0
7 Wye loss factor is for a 30-degtree branch entry, on a 15-degree taper (where it is reduced).
8 Flex pipe losses vary - SEE FAQ
9 8", 10", and 12" loss factors are for furnace pipe, to be used on RETURN ONLY.
10 Transition losses are not included.
11 Any wye connection that does not result in the outlets being of equal or larger area than the incoming main will kill airflow and
should not be used with this static pressure calculator.
12 THIS SHEET WILL TELL YOU WHAT THE LOSSES ARE; IT WILL NOT TELL YOU WHAT IS REASONABLE!!! For example
10000 CFM, the 4" velocity goes to 114592 FPM, which is 1302 MPH. And the hood entry alone in a 4" branch goes to 1220
which is 44 PSI.
13 This sheet assumes that the total area of the duct below the blast gate roughly equals the area of the main. Use of a smaller
less area can increase the overall resistance ten fold or more

Instructions: READ THE EXAMPLE PROBLEM! THIS IS REQUIRED!!!


From a CFM Requirements table Input the CFM required for our largest tool (normally 800 or 1000).
Input the target air velocity in FPM for your ducting (4000 for sawdust and 2000 FPM for clean air)
This immediately calculates the most efficient optimum duct diameter.
Run the calculation for only your longest, most complex branch from the hood to the collector.
Input 1 for the number of hoods under the correct duct diameter column.
Enter the total number of bends counting 0.5 for each 45 degree and 1.0 for each full 90.
Enter the number of wye connections where the airflow splits equally, e.g. 6" to 6" and 6".
Input in the total number of feet of straight duct measured on a centerline through the fittings.
Return can be added in to each run and it will be included in the total drop. See the sample problem.

CFM Required: 800 Target Air Velocity 4000


Optimum Duct Diameter 6.06
Ducting:
Duct Diameter Inches 3.5 4 5 6 7 8
Duct Radius 1.75 2 2.5 3 3.5 4
Duct Area Sq. Inches 9.621 12.566 19.635 28.274 38.485 50.265
Duct Area Sq. Feet 0.0668 0.0873 0.1364 0.1963 0.2673 0.3491
Calculated CFM 267 349 545 785 1069 1396
Delivered CFM 267 349 545 785 800 800
Calulated. Velocity, FPM 11974 9167 5867 4074 2993 2292
Delivered. Velocity, FPM 4000 4000 4000 4000 2993 2292
Hoods:
# of 90's: 1.5
# of Wyes: 1
Ft. of Straight Pipe: 23
Ft. of Flex pipe: 1.5
Other:
Trashcan Separator S.P. Enter 4.5" if used

Cyclone S.P. 3.5 Enter 4.5" for Wood Mag. & Similar, 3.5" with neutral vane, 3.0" with air ramp, and 2.25" for Pentz

Std. Bag =2.5", <5 Micron Bags=1", 225 sq ft filer=0.5", 300 sq ft filter=0.3", 450 sq ft filter=0.25",
Filters S.P. 0.5 filter=0.2"
Muffler S.P. 0.15 Muffler=0.15"
Other S.P. 2.32

TOTAL SP LOSS: 8.16 inches WC Note: if SP over 12" you need to use bigger diameter pip

SUBTOTAL LOSSES: 3.5" diameter 4" diameter 5" diameter 6" diameter 7" Diameter 8" diameter
Hood: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
90's: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.32 0.00 0.00
Wye: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.18 0.00 0.00
Pipe: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.99 0.00 0.00
Flex: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.19 0.00 0.00
Subtotal losses: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.69 0.00 0.00

Example
Note that when the spreadsheet is first loaded, it has the values filled in for this example. The following steps show how we got these numbe

For starters, it is useful to have a sketched layout of your shop, with the tools in place, and the centerlines of all the ducts run. Ideally we wan
the shortest runs, with the least number of bends and with the right sized ducting. Practically, because equipment will change and move arou
need to create a system that is flexible and will permit changes. The best compromise is centering the dust collector as much as possible the
either a center main or a pair of mains on opposite walls. In this example, we have a 20 x 20 shop. Power concerns forced us to put the cycl
centered on the east wall and run an 18' long duct down the center of the shop.

By placing our cyclone right at the end of this duct run we only need a single 45 degree elbow and 1.5' of 6" flex hose to connect the cyclone
main. The flex hose helps control noise by not allowing our ducting to serve as a sounding board, plus it makes our connection easier.
In this example shop neither the planer run nor the radial arm saw run is ample to size our system. The ducting run to our planer
longest possible for this shop and our radial arm saw has the most overhead. The planer overhead is small because it uses a sim
single 6" port. The radial arm saw needs both a sweep up hood plus flex hose blade guard pickup hood. Figuring out the maxim
any shop requires finding your largest resistance tool (normally the one with the most hoods and the most small hoses)
calculating the resistance for the longest run, then adding the resistance for the tool with the highest ducting resistance
overhead of your separator, cyclone, and filters.

Radial Arm Saw Ducting Size: The CFM Requirements Table shows our RAS only needs 500 CFM. If we input that 500 CFM fo
required airflow, then our calculator wrongly tells us we should use a 5" down drop to this machine. If we were building a commer
ducting solution where all ducts are left open with a blower big enough to power all at once, that would be the correct sizing for th
drop. In a hobbyist system where we only power a single run at a time, we instead must use the same sized pipe as our mains. T
enter 500 CFM in our calculator for the required CFM. It immediately computes a need for 5" ducting and shows the airspeed in t
main drops to only 2546 FPM. We need close to 4000 FPM to keep uphill runs from plugging and to avoid building up dust piles.
mains hobbyist need 6" down drops to each machine.

For our RAS and many other tools such as our table saw, band saw, etc., we end up splitting the down drop into two collection pi
picked the RAS for this example because it has one of the highest ducting overheads of any hobbyist tool. For the RAS we have
hood that sits behind the blade and a smaller flex hose that attaches to the blade guard. To keep from killing airflow by restricting
of ducting, the area of these two ducts must be very close to the same area as our 6" diameter down drop duct, roughly 28 1/4 sq
inches. The following table shows ducting areas, so you can pick a combination of offshoots that come close to the same area as
main. We ideally would split our 6" main into a 5" and a 3.5" because adding the areas of the 5" and 3.5" runs almost exa
equals the area of the 6" duct. Practically, going with 5" and 4" makes more sense because 3.5" flex hose is so difficult t
For this duct to work with our machines we also often have to change out the origingal too small machine chip collection ports. F
RAS this requires making a 3.5" port on the blade guard and a 5" back connection on the rear pickup hood.

CFM Starting
Duct Size Duct Area with 6" pipe
Inches Square Inches at 800 CFM
1 0.79 22.2
2 3.14 88.9
2.5 4.91 138.9
3 7.07 200.0
3.5 9.62 272.2
4 12.57 355.6
5 19.63 555.6
6 28.27 800.0
7 38.48 800.0
8 50.27 800.0

Even with the right sizing, dual port machines may still need further adjustment to keep a larger duct from stealing all th
from a smaller! Any size variation, constriction in the tool, and even resistance of the different hoses will significantly alter how m
goes to each collection point. Proper balancing can require use of a wye with a baffle to direct the airflow and dual gauges to ens
ample airflow to both legs.
From the above RAS ducting picture taken from the ducting hoods section of these web pages, you see a 6" main going into a w
splits off the 5" for the rear sweep up hood and a 3.5" for the blade guard. The RAS hood turns up on the wall with a 90 degree, g
the wall, and enters the wye. The 3.5" flex hose is 5' long and enters the other leg of the wye. We then go from that 6" wye with 5
straight pipe to the main.

Highest Resistance Tool: Based upon the above discussion we now need to enter in 3.5" column 1 hood and 5' of flex. In the 5
enter 1 hood, 1 each 90 elbow, and 3' of pipe. In the 6" size column add 1 more 90 degree elbow (2 each 45s)'s and add 5' of str
pipe. This gives us 4.62" of total resistance, so the average resistance is half that or about 2.32" w.c. When we split a down drop
average instead of add the resistance values.

Longest Ducting Run: Our scaled drawing shows the longest run starts at the cyclone with 1.5' of flex hose, 18' of straight duct
degree elbow, 5' of straight pipe, another 45 degree elbow, blast gate, and 5' of straight pipe going down to a final wye before sp
the upper and lower collection hose. Since we already calculated the overhead after the wye, we will just calculate up to and incl
wye. This leaves us entering in the 6" column no hoods, 1.5 for 90 degree elbows, 23' of straight pipe duct, 1 wye, and 1.5' of flex
a total ducting resistance of 1.69" w.c.

Overhead: Now to this we enter 3.5" for an average cyclone with neutral vane, 0.5" for under 225 square feet of filter, and 0.15"
muffler that sits between the blower and filters. To this we must add our 2.32" oof overhead for our largest tool to give a total duct
resistance for the longest run of 8.16" w.c. total.

Hobbyist Solution: Standard engineering fmaterial movement fan tables let us use our 800 CFM and 8.16" pressure requiremen
the minimum sized blower we need. The below table shows our 8" of resistance requires about 2.18 hp with a 13" diameter impe
about 890 CFM. This is why I say almost all average small shops will burn up 2 hp motors unless the airflow is restricted t
our needed 800 CFM. Because impellers are made in even inch increments for larger than 12" in diameter there are almost no a
sources for 13" impellers. Bumping up to a 14" impeller with an open short run on a minimal resistance tool only pulls about 5" re
generating a need for over 4.4 hp which will quickly burn up even a 3 hp motor. Most hobbyist cyclone vendors offer 7" mains an
cyclones powered by 2 and 3 hp motors. These motors burn up quickly unless they kill our airflow to well under 800 CFM. Most d
using small down drops. Although a nice advertising ploy that shows very high CFM maximum numbers, a far smarter solution th
more air and provides better separation is to use a real 5 hp motor with a custom made 15" impeller, exactly as recommended fo
cyclone design.
Commercial Solution: If we were building a commercial system we would add up the CFM requirements for every machine and
would tell us how many CFM our blower would need to produce. We would likewise total the resistance of every ducting run and
ducting to tell us how much resistance our blower would have to overcome. For this simple two machine shop, the total comes ou
1300 CFM at 18" of resistance. This requirement goes right off our hobbyist fan table scale and puts us into a commercial table. C
the Cincinnati Fan, Inc. table we need 5.9 hp that requires a 7.5 hp motor turning a 16.5" diameter impeller to provide concurrent
collection on these two tools at once.
February 16, 2018
D. Beale/B.Pentz
Version 9.3 -- 1/03/06

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with air ramp, and 2.25" for Pentz cyclone

ft filter=0.3", 450 sq ft filter=0.25", 600 sq ft

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ipment will change and move around, we
t collector as much as possible then running
concerns forced us to put the cyclone

6" flex hose to connect the cyclone to the


akes our connection easier.
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hood. Figuring out the maximum for
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would be the correct sizing for this down
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to avoid building up dust piles. With 6"

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come close to the same area as the
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