Whether your industrial fan or blower reflects your brand colors, stands out, or blends into the system, there’s one thing you always want to shine: quality. Here’s what to look for in selecting the right metal treatment and finish options.
Your direct-drive fan may use a coupling to connect the motor shaft to the fan shaft. The constant motion and friction within the coupling make coupling grease very important at start-up and throughout regular fan maintenance.
If you have a processing plant of any kind, you most likely have an industrial cooling process among your centrifugal fan applications. That’s because manufacturing operations often use heat as a necessary element of part of the process, but heat can also be dangerous to other elements. Even when process heating is not in play, there is natural friction from moving parts that can create excess heat.
When touring an industrial fan manufacturing facility, you probably don’t imagine anyone remarking on the beauty of welded fan components. Here at AirPro, it happens all the time. Our welders are skilled craftsmen who see their work as a form of art.
Wondering why your fan is underperforming? If your application system effects were not calculated into your original fan specification, you might be experiencing performance below the expected centrifugal fan performance curve from the manufacturer.
Air and heat are two essential components of industrial process manufacturing. Air serves as the conveyor, and heat is a transformer. In applications using high-temperature blower fans, both processes are happening together or in close proximity. That means the fans in these applications need to be able to take the heat, and in many cases, accompany corrosive gasses.
Clockwise or counterclockwise? It’s a surprisingly common question we get related to industrial fans and blowers. Determining fan rotation direction is simple once you know the trick, and it’s important to understand during the specification process.
Wear and tear in your industrial fans and blowers is completely normal. In fact, it’s impossible to avoid, given all of the moving parts and the often abrasive or corrosive elements moving through them. But that does not need to lead to catastrophic downtime. We put together this 9-step preventative maintenance checklist for equipment to help you avoid fan failure and save you days, weeks, or more of downtime.
FD fans create positive air pressure and volume at the outlet to push air through the system. For reference, fans are either forced or induced draft. Induced draft fan (ID fan) applications focus pressure at the inlet. You can read more on ID fans here.
If you’re running your fan or blower on a belt drive system, leaving the shaft, bearings, and belts exposed could pose a hazard to your work environment. To keep the workers (and equipment) safe, you’ll need to install industrial fan guards.
People sometimes think that if they already looked at a website, they’ve seen it all. No need to return, right? Not the case, at least not for us. We’re constantly updating, enhancing, and adding to it as we watch to see how people are navigating and hear the questions they’re asking us. One of the important things we did recently was to expand our application pages. This post highlights induced draft fan (ID fans) applications.
Fan bearing failure is quite avoidable with appropriate greasing, maintenance, monitoring, and end-of-L10-life replacement. Still, bearing failure is the number one issue we get calls about. And on top of that, the number one reason for bearing failures is the lack of lubrication. Because it’s so common, we want to make sure you know how to repair a fan bearing after failure.
Not long ago we updated all of the applications pages on our website. They’re full of information, including related case studies and products. Over the coming months, we’ll be providing overviews of some of our most common applications, starting with material handling systems.
We always stay on the safe side, and we want our customers to do that too. So we created a video and the content below specifically to cover safety precautions during maintenance work on industrial fans.
