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How to Ensure Gas-Tight Fans for Industrial Processing
When your industrial process application moves toxic or hazardous gas, you need to ensure gas-tight fans so that there is no leakage.
There are four steps to making sure your gas-tight fans really are gas-tight. The first three involve essential specifications in the custom fan design process, and the final step is a test to identify leaks or confirm that the fan leak points are fully gas-tight.
Industrial Dust Collection and Centrifugal Fans
Most dust collection systems require an industrial fan to supply the process air. This is one of the applications we support most often, usually in collaboration with our manufacturer’s reps and the dust collector OEM. The rep plays a vital role in ensuring optimal technology and specifications for the application in question.
Our reps from Gla
Custom Induced Draft Fan
We recently designed and manufactured a custom induced draft fan for a Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) application. The design featured our backward-curved technology with an Arrangement 8 configuration.
Extremely robust and very large, the design features a 316L stainless steel airstream with a ferralium wheel, a s
We supplied this radial tipped dryer supply fan for a cement plant application. With a 150 HP motor, an outlet flex connector or expansion joint, and an airflow sensor, the fan accommodates very high airflow.
This induced draft radial tipped fan moves high volumes of air through the rotary dryer delivering high static efficiency while ke
Five Airflow Control Strategies for Centrifugal Fans
There are many reasons you would want to control the airflow in your industrial fan application. How you do it is based on your fan curve, whether you need to reduce volume, maintain pressure, change the curve based on frequency in hertz to add efficiency, protect your system against surge, or address multiple issues at once.
There are five primary airflow control strategies for centrifugal fans in industria
We designed this material handling fan to replace a competitor fan wheel, which had been failing every week. It’s used for moving a mixture of copper and aluminum shavings in this industrial metal-making application. After months of operation, our replacement is in good working condition.
Our trim handling industrial exhaust fan uses a radial blade profile with a backplate and gussets for extra strength.
VFD Motor Control for Overspeeding Industrial Fans
Once upon a time, direct-drive industrial fans could only go one speed. With the invention of the Variable Frequency Drive (VFD), industrial manufacturers gained a great degree of control and the ability to overspeed the fan for optimal operation in the application through which it is moving process air.
Why Overspeed
David Sprung, AirFlow Sales, Representing AirPro Fan & Blower Company in Kansas and Western Missouri since 2008
At AirPro, our manufacturer’s representatives (reps) are our lifeline to mutual customers and vice versa. We depend on them for their application expertise, industry knowledge, and ability to translate customer challenges into solutions working closely with our application engineers. But more than anything, we rely on their deep customer relationsh
An Investment in Our People, Our Community, and Our Future
2021 marks the five-year anniversary of AirPro’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). To mark the occasion, we thought we’d get some background from Founder Keith White on his decision to sell the company to his employees. Watch the video above or read on to hear what he had to say.
How to Troubleshoot Centrifugal Fan Air Volume, Pressure, and Power Consumption
Centrifugal fan troubleshooting is definitely a science. But to application engineers like us, there’s also an art to it. The trick is knowing what to measure and the system effects that can influence those measurements. And it all depends on the specific application. The really short answer to the question of how to troubleshoot a centrifugal fan is to call an application engineer at t