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This right is defined by Lord Coke to extend to the enjoyment of the corn, grass, underwood, sweepage (i.e. everything which falls to the sweep of the scythe), and the like, but not to houses, timber, trees, or mines, .or inany way to the land itself
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One consequence of poor gas flow is hopper sweepage. High gas flow near the bottom of the precipitator and improper baffling can cause gas flow into the hopper area.
Source: wiktionary
Another qualitative test which should be performed during the geometric model study is the injection of neutral buoyancy smoke into the roof and hopper regions of the collection chamber, particularly near the outlet, to check that significant amounts of gas are not exiting the precipitator without passing through the collecting plates (' ' sneakage' ' ) and that there are not strong flows in the hopper regions (hopper sweepage) which could cause excessive reentrainment.
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Nonuniform gas flow or maldistribution will result in poor collection, excessive reentrainment, or hopper sweepage.
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