There’s more misinformation floating around about cooling fans than any other part of a cooling system. Where one gearhead swears electric fans are the only modern answer, there’s another who’s ...

Fans and fan systems are significant energy consumers in many commercial applications and can be the greatest consumers in industrial applications. Concerned about being responsible for ...

Mechanical draft fans are used exclusively in power generation to move air and gas from one point to another. They create draft in a process system so that fluid media can be induced, forced, and ...

A large number of the world’s power generation plants are operating with 50-year-old-plus fan equipment. These fans originally were selected from low- to moderate-efficiency designs that were the most ...

There's nothing worse than hitting the road in your mean machine and overheating. Smiles become frowns and steamy, boiling torrents douse the tarmac as your baby bleeds to death on the side of the ...

Fan control is an important aspect of system architecture. Though often left as a secondary activity, its implementation has significant effects. Customer response can be immediate to factors such as ...

In most fan systems a single fan is selected for the required system design rating. Various methods of control are employed such as dampers, variable inlet vanes, variable pitch blades, or variable ...

Withclosed loop speed control, the fan controller ensures that the fan isrunning at the desired speed by measuring the actual speed and adjustingthe duty cycle accordingly. Here the host specifies the ...

Hydraulic fan drives have caught on as the most effective way to cool diesel engines. A diesel’s operating efficiency (fuel consumption) and emissions output are closely related to operating ...