For this industrial oven exhaust application, we custom designed a high-temperature plug fan. The design incorporated forward-curved blades, housing, a 12 inch insulated plug, belt drive, and a unitary base, with a heat slinger on the shaft to help dissipate heat from the oven.
Forward Curved Fans
Squirrel Cage Blower Wheel with Forward Curved Blades
What some may call a squirrel cage blower wheel is also what we call a forward-curved centrifugal fan. Either way, it gets its name based on the many small blades that make up this fan wheel causing it to look like a squirrel cage or hamster wheel! The result is a blower that moves higher volumes of air and gasses at low pressures for various industrial operations.
The following plug fan was rebuilt for a US steel company that heat treats customer supplied castings for automotive companies. After this user’s fan from another fan supplier failed, AirPro was asked to produce a dimensional & functional match. AirPro’s engineers reverse engineered the “model fan” and produced a “match.”