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DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE VISCOSITY AND DENSITY OF AMBIENT AIR AND USE METHOD
P201830873
The invention relates to a device used to measure the viscosity and density of ambient air and to its method of use. The device is versatile and transportable and combines in a single apparatus the functionalities of a viscometer and a densimeter. It is configured, inter alia, to obtain the value of the density and kinetic viscosity of moist air in the atmosphere by quantifying the physical response of the device, based on the physical principle that relates the movement of the air and its ambient qualities. All of this is obtainable because the device has the particularity of containing a vertical rotor together with means that ensure that the air acquires a single horizontal component in its passage through the internal area of the device.
Air density influences the measurement of power curves and the quantification of the annual energy production of wind generators; aerodynamics studies; the correction of wind measurements with anemometers and statistical wind probability studies; and the more accurate calibration of anemometers.