Cold Storage Doorway With Airflow Control System And Method The present invention relates to a conditioned vestibule for a cold storage doorway. More particularly, the present invention relates to an air curtain arrangement and control system that controls temperature of the air discharged across a doorway and a method of controlling the airflow temperature. In the field of large cold storage freezers and similar devices, various systems such as solid doors, strip curtains, and air curtains,Cheap Nike Air Max 2010, may be used to separate the cold storage room from an adjacent relatively warm anteroom. It is desirable to allow traffic from people and equipment through a doorway between the cold storage room and the adjacent warm room safely and with a minimum transfer of cool air from the cold room to the warm room. As a safety precaution,Cheap Nike Air Max, it is desirable prevent the formation of fog, ice, and water in the doorway. Ice may form from the mixing of air from the cold and warm sides of the vestibule. The formation of ice at an air curtain depends on the temperature and relative humidity of the cold and warm rooms, and may be characterized by a psychrometric saturation curve. The mixing of air from the relatively warm and cold sides may be characterized by a straight line between points representing the warm side temperature and humidity and the cold side temperature and humidity, which may be plotted on a psychrometric saturation chart along with the curve. Generally, ice may form whenever the mixing line is to the left of, and above, the psychrometric saturation curve, as it is typically plotted. The formation of ice may be prevented by heating the air discharged from the air curtain. By way of example, the discharged air may be heated to a temperature at a point on the psychrometric saturation chart such that lines to such point from both the cold side and warm side temperature/humidity points remain to the right of, and below, the psychrometric saturation curve, as it is typically plotted. While avoiding the formation of ice, water, and fog, it is also desirable to operate the air curtain as efficiently as possible,Nike Air Max 1 Mens Cheap, by adding the minimum amount of heat necessary to avoid such problems. With respect to the psychrometric saturation chart, this means keeping the point representing the airstream with the added heat as close to the saturation curve as possible, without causing mixing lines from this point to the cold side and warm side temperature/humidity points to contact or cross the saturation curve. There exists a need to provide an air curtain and method for dynamically conditioning air which overcomes at least some of the above-referenced deficiencies. Accordingly, at least this and other needs have been addressed by exemplary embodiments of the air curtain arrangement with control system and method according to the present invention. One such embodiment is directed to an air curtain arrangement for a cold storage doorway. The arrangement includes a discharge means that discharges an air stream across a doorway having a cold side and a warm side. A heater warms the air stream. A control unit operates the heater to maintain an air stream temperature. An air return means receives the air discharged across the opening. An air stream temperature sensor provides an air stream temperature input to the controller. The control unit continuously monitors the air stream temperature and operates the heater to maintain the air stream temperature in a non-saturated state based on a humidity ratio of mixed air in the air curtain. In yet another exemplary embodiment, a method is provided for controlling air flow in an air curtain arrangement having a plurality of air curtains. A humidity ratio is calculated for the air curtain arrangement based upon an intersection point between a warm side tangent line to a psychrometric saturating curve and a cold side tangent line to the curve. Air flow of at least one of the air curtains is adjusted based upon the calculated humidity ratio. A temperature of an air stream in at least one of the air curtains is maintained based upon an intersection point of a humidity ratio line based on the humidity ratio and at least of the warm and cold side tangent lines. The use of air curtains is one method of allowing a doorway to remain open to traffic while also preventing substantial energy loss between the cold and warm sides of the vestibule. Air curtains generally direct air across the doorway to counter infiltration of warm to the cold room and exfiltration of cold air from the cold room. By way of example, air curtains may direct air horizontally across the doorway or vertically, from an upper portion of the air curtain.
