Topics: General Ventilation
- Ed Neese
Louvers are a critical ventilation component for an industrial ventilation system. They allow air to pass through them while keeping out unwanted elements such as water, dirt and debris when fitted with filters. Selecting the right louver for an application requires knowing how to navigate through all of the options and then sizing it properly …
- Ed Neese
The ability to read a fan curve has become a dying skill set. With the introduction of fan selection software, fan selection has become as easy as entering the required inputs and then letting the software interpret which fan is best suited for the operating conditions. But, what will someone do if years after the …
- Clayton Settle
When replacing general ventilation fans, customers often ask if the replacement fans can provide more airflow without increasing the fan size. Before providing the customer with an answer, we will need to assess their existing fans and evaluate the options for adding more airflow. In this article, I’ll discuss the options for increasing airflow utilizing …
- Josh Janecek
One of the ventilation system design principles for an industrial facility is to determine the amount of air flow needed to remove internal heat load. When the solar heat load is the only heat load, the activities inside or the purpose of the facility will determine what is an appropriate air change rate. But what …
- Ed Neese
When designing an industrial ventilation system, an important design criterion is determining whether the facility requires a positive or negative pressure environment to protect people, products, and processes. In this week’s blog I’ll discuss the benefits of both, the factors that should be considered, and how the ventilation equipment should be sized to achieve the …
- Fred Mott
Selecting the right filter to go with your silencer application requires understanding all of the options. There are trade-offs between cost, efficiency, durability, and size that really need to be thought through before selecting a filter-silencer or filter housing. In this week’s blog, I’ll go through the thought process that we use when we are …
- Ed Neese
Industrial fans are selected on the basis of delivering a required volume of air against the system total static pressure. But what amount of static pressure should be added to the system total static pressure for the fan itself? In this week’s blog, I’ll discuss the three types of pressure losses, frictional, dynamic and component, …
- Ed Neese
When the summer heat causes a dangerous increase in temperature inside a building, worker productivity goes down and injury risk goes up. Both problems can be mitigated by investing in a ventilation system upgrade. However, there is a certain order to improving a ventilation system where all of the components are working together to deliver …
- Ed Neese
The summer heat is not too far off. Doing a springtime tune-up on your ventilation system will ensure that there is a successful environment in your facility where your employees are healthy, safe, and productive when the temperature heats up. Below are a few suggestions to make sure that your ventilation system is ready for …