If your manufacturing process involves applications like ovens, furnaces, boilers, and dryers, there’s a fan involved in the heating process. Industries like food processing, energy, paper, pulp, plastics, metals, and glass rely on combustion for heating and drying purposes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
