Fan ranges

Axial fans

High volume, low pressure, and a pitch angle you can change on site when the ductwork turns out not to match the drawing.

The range

Axial fans

  • Cast aluminium aerofoil impellers
  • Blade pitch adjustable on site
  • Short, long and bifurcated cases
  • Motor out of the airstream on bifurcated
  • Two-speed and reversible arrangements
  • Guards, matching flanges and flexes in the same order

An axial fan moves air along the shaft rather than across it. It will not generate the pressure a centrifugal will, but for the same duty at low resistance it is smaller, lighter, cheaper to install and considerably easier to fit into a duct run — which is why almost all general building ventilation and every tunnel ventilation scheme in the country uses them.

Our impellers are cast in aluminium alloy with a true aerofoil section and adjustable blade pitch. That adjustability is the single most useful feature of the range and it is routinely ignored at commissioning: a scheme designed for 14 m³/s that measures 11 on site can often be brought back by four degrees of pitch rather than by a new fan and a new order.

Cases come short, long, or bifurcated with the motor out of the airstream for hot or contaminated air. All three take the same impeller and the same mountings, so a specification change between design and order does not restart the drawing.

Numbers

Envelope

Ranges are the built envelope, not a marketing maximum. Duties near the edge get a measured curve before we quote.

Specification envelope for the Axial fans range
Volume range0.2 – 90 m³/s
Static pressureUp to 2,500 Pa
Impeller diameter315 – 2,000 mm
Blade count4 to 16, pitch adjustable
Peak total efficiency81%
Reversible duty85% of forward flow

Next step

Send us the duty and we will send back a curve

Volume, static pressure, air temperature and what is in it. If you only have two of those, ring us and we will work out the rest.