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Family Culture Wins for Employees, Customers & Company
All companies and jobs are not created equal. When you own the company, when you trust your colleagues, when you know your customers, you may start feeling right at home. The family culture at AirPro Fan and Blower Company is a win for our employee/owners, our customers and beyond.
How to Increase L10 Life through Fan Bearing Maintenance
Fan bearing maintenance helps increase longevity and potential to reach the fan bearing’s full L10 life. Stated as a number of hours, L10 life indicates the life expectancy with 90% confidence that the bearings will meet the expectation. The higher your L10 life, the longer your bearings should last, provided you maintain your bearings.
Motor Bearings and High Horsepower Belt-Drive Fans
Over our years designing, developing and delivering custom centrifugal fans and blowers for industrial applications, we have learned that no detail is too small in the specification process. This holds true when we talk about motor bearings too. There’s a specific nuance to consider when selecting motors for high horsepower belt-driven fans.
Choosing the Right Motor Speed for Your Industrial Fan
How do you determine the right motor speed for your industrial centrifugal fan? You’ll need to consider your fan’s drive arrangement and one more factor that frequently gets missed: frequency of the motor’s input power.
Arrangement 7 Fan Considerations
The Arrangement 7 fan is center-hung with the impeller mounted between two bearings and an integral inlet box to direct the air into the fan from above or from the side. This fan arrangement is optimal for use when your application requires large fan impellers and/or when you want to go the extra mile for increased fan life.
When designing and installing your industrial fan, it is essential to consider the full system and long term needs, including surrounding ductwork and fan maintenance.
Insulation surrounding industrial centrifugal fans serves dual purposes of thermal and sound protection. It also creates a sheath around the fan, requiring some accommodation for access when maintenance or repairs are needed. There are multiple fan insulation types to accommodate different applications.
Fan Efficiency for Dust Collectors
Industrial fans have a special job to do when used in a dust collection application. They need to get the dust-laden air past the filters in the dust collector baghouse. The system pressure varies based on how “dirty” the filters are, and you can adjust the fan speed accordingly. Properly adjusting the speed can reduce your overall power consumption, but that depends on whether or not you place the pressure gauge in the right spot.
How System Requirements & System Effect Can Fail the Fan
When the operation or efficiency of a fan is off, people often jump to the conclusion that the fan isn’t working. We get it. The fan is an easy and obvious target. It’s big, with moving mechanical components. It needs power and makes noise. It blows a lot of hot air. But don’t be too quick to judge this essential component of your system. Often, the problem is not the fan, but rather the fan’s design capability doesn’t match the system requirements, or there’s a negative system effect.
Fan Vibration Isolation Considerations
Fans and vibration don’t get along very well! High vibration levels can shorten fan life and even cause catastrophic failure. Fan installation setup is a key factor to protect the fan from excessive vibration. Your fan should be installed on a foundation or structure designed to either handle the vibration itself or use vibration isolation devices.
Industrial Fan Storage Recommendations
How often are you ready to install an industrial component like a centrifugal fan the moment it arrives at your facility? Unless it’s an emergency replacement, the answer is probably “not that often.” That means you need to think about proper fan storage to ensure your fan is ready for operation when you are ready to install it, whether that is a week or months after it arrives.
Company Growth: Motivation or Reward?
Well, when you are an owner of the company, growth is both. In an employee-owned company, that means that each employee has the potential to influence personal and company growth at the same time, leading to greater investment and greater ROI. It’s a powerful virtuous cycle.
Asphalt is one of those things we use nearly every day and rarely think about unless it’s in repair or needs to be. But where would we be without it? And behind the scenes, the Asphalt Plants and Industrial Fans pave the way to building our roads and highways.