Heavy Duty Centrifugal Fans Used in

Industries

In many large scale industries centrifugal fans of high capacity provide

optimal and cost effective solutions to deliver high pressures of airflow
for various process applications. Generally, to get the desired high
pressure and volume outputs, industries install two or more centrifugal
fans in the series or parallel combinations. Sometimes, the option of
multiple fans in the industries, may not be feasible due to limited
availability of space in the working area. Hence to meet the demands of
large scale applications in industries, a single heavy duty centrifugal
fan can be used with high power rating. There are mainly two types of
heavy duty fans that are widely used in industries, namely double inlet
centrifugal fan and multistage centrifugal fan.

Double inlet centrifugal fans

The primary function of double inlet centrifugal fan is to provide large
movement of airflow in the industrial process. These are custom made
heavy duty fans that can sustain extreme operating conditions and
handle different types of gases in any process plant.

 Working
Double inlet centrifugal fans have two separate inlets and one
common outlet. These type of fans are used for high volume outputs.
The air/gas to be handled by the fan enters through two inlet boxes
that are flange mounted to fan inlet side or directly welded to the
volute casing. Inlet boxes are also provided with dampers to control
the downstream of the air coming into it. Then the air/gas flows to the
impeller mounted between bearings inside the volute casing, where
both the air streams join together and come out through the common
outlet.

These type of fans are usually large in size than the standard regular
fans, but deliver good results in terms of output.
Applications
> Cement industry: In cement industry double inlet fans are used to
obtain flow rates of above 10,00,000 m3/h. Some of the process fans
like raw mill fans, mill fans, filter fans that are used in the cement
industry use double inlet centrifugal fans. The reason behind using a
single double inlet fan to handle the entire process in cement industry
is to reduce the power consumption, which is more when two
individual fans are used.

> Power plant industry: In power plant industry burning coal requires
high amount of air/gas. For a large capacity plant, the demand for the
supply of air/gas quantity will be more. To ensure proper running of
various processes in power plant industry, double inlet is used in forced
draft fans.

Multistage centrifugal fans

Many industries have high pressure requirements for process and they
use two single stage centrifugal fans to get the desired output. Even
increasing the diameter of impeller blades of these individual fans will
impact only 10 to 20% on the pressure. So for high pressure airflow
requirements, many large scale industries use multistage centrifugal
fans.

 Working
Multistage centrifugal fans use two impellers on a single shaft. These
two impellers are joined by a tube, which helps in air/gas to flow from
first impeller to second impeller. At first, the airflow enters the first
impeller, gains some pressure and this again gets redirected to the
second stage of impeller where it gains some more pressure and leaves
the system radially. Multistage centrifugal fans give approximately 50%
extra pressure up to 1.7 bar pressure than the regular fans.

 Applications
> Chemical Industry: Multistage centrifugal fans with high energy
air/gas output are widely used in chemical industries as high pressures
are required to evaporate fluid or water content in chemical substances.
Apart from this, these fans also find applications in other high pressure
process requirement industries like cement, power plant, wood & paper
etc.

Most of the heavy duty centrifugal fans are custom designed in various
sizes using high strength materials, to withstand corrosive gases,
abrasive elements and high temperatures in diverse industrial
applications.

Reitz India, manufacturer of centrifugal fans and blowers is committed

to provide tailor-made solutions to various industrial processes and air
pollution control systems in India and other neighboring countries.
Reitz India centrifugal fans find wide applications in pollution control,
ventilation, dust collection, fume extraction, ID, FD and PA fans in boilers
and furnaces etc.