Since our founding in 2002, AirPro has focused on the bigger picture just as much as the details of our industrial fans. That’s because from the very beginning, our founder, Keith White Sr., built it into our culture to be laser-focused on quality and reliability for our customers, vendors, colleagues, and neighbors. Even as we have grown and become employee-owned, we have nurtured that culture, and we hope it shows in everything we do.
On September 3, 2020, AirPro Fan & Blower Company unveiled a mural celebrating the role of industry in Rhinelander’s history. The Rhinelander community, as well as the descendants of its industrial founders, gathered from all across the nation to witness the mural’s introduction.
In April of 2020, we introduced our new 3-Year Gold Standard Warranty, which now comes standard on all the products we design and build. Now the innovation continues with the launch of our new line of quick ship industrial blowers for OEM dust collection applications. This off-the-shelf line of high-volume single-width backward inclined fans is called BIQS (Backward Inclined Quick Ship), shipping in 12 days with no expedite fee.
The question about how to get a quote for an industrial blower comes up more often than you might think. The first trick is to also search for how to get a quote for an industrial fan. Same product, different function. A blower is just a forced draft fan that sucks air in to push it through the system instead of induced draft pulling it through the system. See “related content” below to find more details and insights on that nuance.
There’s more to a centrifugal fan than blade structure (versus axial) and function (to move process air and other materials as part of a larger system). Centrifugal fan airflow is at the core of how it works.
There was no “business as usual” this spring. But “business as unusual” looked very different depending on your vantage point. For us, it meant finding a way to keep our employees safe and healthy while maintaining our standards of quality, reliability, and on-time delivery throughout the global pandemic. On top of all that and in the midst of a record-breaking production schedule, we had the opportunity to expedite fans for another essential business: emergency medical mask production.
Fan static efficiency is the measure of the airstream’s potential, or optimal energy consumption, as determined by the ratio of power output to the power supplied.
Which industrial fan type do you need in your process to achieve both optimal static efficiency and reliable operation? Considerations include what the fan is processing from clean air to mild particulate to highly abrasive materials, as well as volume and static pressure. Once you know those variables, you can make the fan static efficiency calculation to select the right fan.
If you’ve ever seen, heard or felt a pressurized industrial fan pulsing, you’ve probably also seen how damaging the resulting vibrations can be. Surgeless fan design moderates volume to avoid that costly scenario.
If you work with a manufacturer that builds high-quality products, do a great job with the installation, and prioritize regular fan and blower maintenance, your industrial fan could last as long as 50 years. So what does all that mean? We break it down below and in Chet’s latest video.
Before we dive into HOW to balance an industrial fan, we should start with WHY. The answer is that the better we balance the wheel in a two-plane balance setup in the shop, the better it’s going to be when we put it into the complete fan assembly, run it up to full speed and trim balance it. And of course, ultimately, fan balance is essential to fan performance, safety, and maintenance.
Balance quality grades are among the more than 20,000 standards published by the International Standards Organization (ISO). These standards serve as generally accepted specifications for products, services, and systems, to ensure quality, safety, and efficiency.
The fan performance curve shows the pressure and flow rate that the fan will produce for any system connected to it. The actual fan performance is dependent upon the detailed design of each system. System designers calculate process air requirements, and the fan application engineer selects fans to meet those requirements, which are graphically represented by a fan curve.
With less than a month to go in the year, we can’t wait any longer to report the good news about our on-time delivery averages for 2019. It’s our first full year designing, building and shipping centrifugal fans and blowers with on-time delivery to industrial and OEM customers as our number one manufacturing metric. The results are making us as happy as Christmas morning.
