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Dust Control Handbook for Industrial Minerals Mining and Processing

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Vaneaxial fans are similar to tubeaxial fans. The vaneaxial fan has a housing that contains guidevanes that are oriented parallel to the airflow (Figure 1.29, right). These vanes are used torecover the tangential airflow velocity from the fan blade to convert it into static pressure. Thistangential airflow velocity is not recovered as static pressure in propeller or tubeaxial fans (thiscomponent is lost energy). The hub diameter of a vaneaxial fan is much larger being 50 to 80percent of the blade outside diameter [Bleier 1998]. The vaneaxial fan is used <strong>for</strong> high staticpressure conditions.Figure 1.29. Typical tubeaxial fan (left) <strong>and</strong> vaneaxial fan (right).Two-stage axial-flow fans are basically two axial flow fans configured in series. Thisconfiguration allows <strong>for</strong> operation in high static pressure conditions as each fan's operatingpressure is added together when in series. This fan can be designed to have each fan rotate in thesame direction with guide vanes located between each of the fans, or the fans may counter-rotate.Centrifugal FansThe airflow <strong>for</strong> a centrifugal fan is different from that of axial flow fans. For a centrifugal fanthe airflow is drawn into a rotating impeller <strong>and</strong> discharged radially from the fan blade into ahousing. The resulting flow of air is perpendicular to the axial rotation or parallel to blademotion [Hartman 1997] <strong>and</strong> the housing is used to direct the airflow to the desired location(Figure 1.30).54 Fundamentals of <strong>Dust</strong> Collection Systems

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