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This study also aimed to reduce the temperature deviation generated between the upper and lower parts of the target indoor space by optimizing the shape of the manufactured outlet of the air circulation system. A table of L9 orthogonal arrays, which is a design of experiment methodology, was used, and it presented three levels of the following design variables: blade angle, blade number, output height, and flow radius. Flow analysis was performed for the experiments on the nine models to minimize the high time and cost requirements. Based on the derived analysis results, an optimized prototype was manufactured by applying the Taguchi method, and experiments were conducted by installing 54 temperature points in an indoor space to identify the temperature difference between the upper and lower parts over time for the performance experiment. Under natural convection, the minimum temperature deviation was 2.2 \u00b0C and the temperature difference between the upper and lower parts did not decrease. For a model without an outlet shape, such as a vertical fan, the minimum temperature deviation was 0.8 \u00b0C and at least 530 s were required to reach a difference of less than 2 \u00b0C. When air was circulated in the air circulation system with the proposed outlet shape, the minimum temperature deviation was 0.6 \u00b0C and the time required to reach a difference of less than 2 \u00b0C was 440 s. 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