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Wind Erosion Research Unit Laboratory
USDA-ARS
The Wind Erosion Research Unit's (WERU) laboratory facility is located on the northeast
corner of the Kansas State University campus. The laboratory is a 10,000 square foot
building containing a plant stress laboratory, a soils laboratory, an electronics
laboratory, two growth chambers, a constant temperature room, a small conference room,
five offices and two low speed wind tunnels. Attached to the main building is a 1,000
square foot green house and a location for portable wind tunnel to be used as a laboratory
wind tunnel.
The large laboratory wind tunnel is 29.5 m long by 1.5 m wide by 1.8 m high. It is a
push type tunnel with overhead air return to the fan. The smaller tunnel is 10 m long by
76 cm wide and 1 m high with a pull type tunnel with horizontal rotation. Both tunnels
have adjustable ceilings. The portable wind tunnel is 9.1 m long by 0.9 m wide and 0.9 m
high.
Special equipment used in the laboratory include rotary sieves, laser roughness meter,
dust sampling and sizing equipment, and both horizontal and vertical soil aggregate
crushing energy meters (SACEM). |
