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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1968, the godfather of New Journalism, Tom Wolfe, wrote a book called The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test that we just had to borrow its title and make our own for this story. But that's where Wolfe's ...

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 ...

Air cooling continues to be the dominant mode for most electronics applications despite rampant increases in system and component power dissipation. Using liquids for cooling electronics occurs more ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

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 ...