FANS

Different types of fans find application in air-cooled heat

exchangers and evaporative coolers. These fans include
axial flow, centrifugal flow, mixed flow, and crossflow.
When selecting a fan for a particular application, the
factors usually considered are:
cost
performance (stability of operation, ease of control,
power
consumption, flow range)
mechanical arrangement (convenience of installation)
self cleaning blade properties
noise emission characteristics
Modern axial flow fans have extruded aluminum or
molded fiberglass
blades. By nature, extruded aluminum blades are always
of uniform chord width although sections may be welded
onto the extrusion, while molded fiberglass blades can
have any shape desired.
One of the basic criteria for blade design is to produce as
uniform an air
flow as possible over the entire plane of the fan. As one
moves from the tip of the blade to the hub, the tangential
velocity decreases. In order to produce uniform airflow,
the blade width and twist must increase. The air velocity
vectors at the inboard sections of the blade may actually
reverse direction. In a fan designed with a hub seal disc,
this effect is reduced.