Venting control cabinets, production processes

For cooling a control cabinet, venting gases from a production process or cooling a product during a manufacturing process there are many different types of fan system available.

If you need to cool a control cabinet, vent gases from a production process or cool a product during a manufacturing process then your air movement requirements will be different for each application.

Further, your needs will also depend upon such factors as location, ambient conditions and the distance the air must travel.

There are many different types of fan available and each is designed to effect different flow patterns as regards volume and velocity and different permutations of them.

Fans are also available integrated into blowers which are again designed to provide distinct duties.

To help engineers select the most appropriate fan design for their particular application, Air Control Industries offer a unique service on the company's web site - ask Angus Low.

Low has more than 40 years of experience in the air movement business and you can draw upon his expertise to help ensure that you achieve your design goals.

As Low says, "The type of fan selected is only part of the equation.

Designers must also take into consideration factors such as density of the air to be moved; air temperature; humidity and the pressure required to achieve flow across a filter or the pressure drop due to ducting.

All ducting will have an effect on the air passing through a system and this will nearly always take the form of a restriction to the flow and therefore have an influence on pressure requirements." In reality, there are many factors that impact upon fan specification and applications that demand particular air movement characteristics for cooling, exhausting, aerating, ventilating and drying should undergo a 'system resistance' assessment.

Only by evaluating all the impacting factors (flow resistance, power units, size, and space envelope) is it possible to ensure maximum efficiency and reliability of both the fan and the equipment involved.

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