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3 TYPES OF FANS
Etymology
Wales. The model was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Improvements in the technology were made
The word fan comes from Middle English, winnowing by James Nasmyth, Frenchman Theophile Guibal and J.
R. Waddle.[6] Between the years 1882 and 1886, New
fan, from Old English fann and from Latin vannus.[1]
Orleans resident Schuyler Skaats Wheeler invented a fan
powered by electricity.[7] It was commercially marketed
by the American rm Crocker & Curtis electric motor
2 History
company. In 1882, Philip Diehl introduced the electric
ceiling fan. Heat-convection fans fueled by alcohol, oil,
The punkah fan was used in India in the early 500 BC. or kerosene were common around the turn of the 20th
It was a handheld fan made from bamboo strips or other century.
plant bre, that could be rotated or fanned. During British
rule, the word came to be used in a special sense by
Anglo-Indians to mean a large swinging fan, xed to the
ceiling, and pulled by a servant, called the punkawallah.
3 Types of fans
Mechanical revolving blade fans are made in a wide range
of designs. In a home you can nd fans that can be put
on the oor or a table, or hung from the ceiling, or are
built into a window, wall, roof, chimney, etc. They can
be found in electronic systems such as computers where
they cool the circuits inside, and in appliances such as hair
dryers and portable space heaters and mounted/installed
wall heaters. They are also used for moving air in airconditioning systems, and in automotive engines, where
they are driven by belts or by direct motor. Fans used for
comfort create a wind chill, but do not lower temperatures directly. Fans used to cool electrical equipment or
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Centrifugal fan
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to the shaft about which the blades rotate. Axial fans blow
air along the axis of the fan, linearly, hence their name.
This type of fan is used in a wide variety of applications,
ranging from small cooling fans for electronics to the giant
fans used in wind tunnels. Axial ow fans are applied
for air conditioning and industrial process applications.
Standard axial ow fans have diameters from 300400
mm or 1800 to 2000 mm and work under pressures up to
800 Pa. Examples of axial fans are:
in engines or other machines do cool the equipment directly by forcing hot air into the cooler environment outside the machine. There are three main types of fans used
for moving air, axial, centrifugal (also called radial) and
cross ow (also called tangential).
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Axial-ow fans
Table fan: Basic elements of a typical table fan include the fan blade, base, armature and lead wires,
motor, blade guard, motor housing, oscillator gearbox, and oscillator shaft. The oscillator is a mechanism that moves the fan from side to side. The axle
comes out on both ends of the motor, one end of the
axle is attached to the blade and the other is attached
to the oscillator gearbox. The motor case joins to the
gearbox to contain the rotor and stator. The oscillator shaft combines to the weighted base and the gearbox. A motor housing covers the oscillator mechanism. The blade guard joins to the motor case for
safety.
Ceiling fan: A fan suspended from the ceiling of a
room is a ceiling fan. Ceiling fans can be found in
both residential and industrial/commercial settings.
In automobiles, a mechanical fan provides engine
cooling and prevents the engine from overheating
by blowing or sucking air through a coolant-lled
radiator. It can be driven with a belt and pulley o
the engine's crankshaft or an electric fan switched
on or o by a thermostatic switch.
Computer cooling fan for cooling electrical components
Variable Pitch Fan: A variable-pitch fan is used
where precise control of static pressure within supply ducts is required. The blades are arranged to
rotate upon a control-pitch hub. The fan wheel will
spin at a constant speed. As the hub moves toward
the rotor, the blades increase their angle of attack
and an increase in ow results.
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Cross-ow fan
Cross-ow fan
4.1 Bellows
Main article: Bellows
Bellows are also used to move air, although not generally
considered fans. A hand-operated bellows is essentially a
bag with a nozzle and handles, which can be lled with air
by one movement, and the air expelled by another. Typically it would comprise two rigid at surfaces hinged at
one end, where a nozzle is tted, and with handles at the
other. The sides of the surfaces are joined by a exible
and air-proof material such as leather; the surfaces and
joining material comprise a bag sealed everywhere but at
the nozzle. (The joining material typically has a characteristic pleated construction that is so common that similar expanding fabric arrangements not used for moving
air, such as on a folding camera, are called bellows.) Separating the handles expands the bag, which lls with air;
squeezing them together expels the air. A simple valve
(e.g., a ap) may be tted so that air enters without hav-
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Convective
Noise
Fan axle
Compressor
Blower
Condenser coils
Fan
Hot air
Outdoor air
Cooled
air
Expansion valve
Cooling coils Temperature
sensing bulb
Indoor air
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fan. Large, slow-moving energy sources such as a owing
river can also power a fan using a water wheel and a train
of gears or pulleys.
See also
Anity laws
Axial fan design
Air cooler
Balancing machine
Fan death
Industrial fans
Pump
Specic fan power
Waddle fan
Whole-house fan
References
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