Centrifugal Fans: The Three Main Types There are three main types of centrifugal fan, based on the design of their impeller: • Forward curved – facetiously dubbed the ‘hamster wheel’ type. These fans have the greatest specific output relative to their size, but often...
DON’T COMPROMISE ON PERFORMANCE Specifying the best centrifugal blower for your application can be challenging if fan engineering is not your specialism. Given that there are three different kinds of centrifugal fans – forward-curved, backward-curved and radial – even...
How Centrifugal Fans Move Air – What Makes Them Different All fans are rotary-bladed machines designed to maintain a continuous flow of air. They use an impeller to draw in that air – but the exact way they move and expel the air differs, based on fan type. At a...
Air Blowers Defined An air blower is a device which uses a rotating impeller in a housing to draw in air, pressurise it then expel it in a defined direction to achieve a desired effect. The relationship between impeller type, blade size/design, housing size/design and...
Could Your Quality And Output Be Better? Of course it could – you can always achieve more with your food production, packaging and labelling. Like the motivational posters say, the road to excellence is less travelled and infinitely long. But what those clichéd...
Getting the proper performance out of your fan is crucial whatever your application. Some fan manufacturers carry out random tests on their fans, but very few test systematically across their whole range. Here at ACI, we are committed to testing the performance of all...
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