The industrial use of fans is needed today, especially on the enterprises of large size and global destinations at large. The current situation with the lack of energy inputs and resources for making the industrial approach more sufficient and competitive in the developed countries presupposes the need for saving energy resources with the rationality in current devices. In other words, it is vital in the industrial domain to make renovation in the use of machinery for their more performance gains.
The paper is devoted to the question of fan performance in terms of occupational hygiene. In this respect, several points touch upon the factors which affect the “positive” work of the device. Moreover, such research will help make improvements in the use f fans in the UK. Their performance facilitation is at the core of the discussion. Hence, there is a direct approach of contemporary industrial development in inventing more rational proposals for making the concepts of effectiveness and efficiency dominant in the workplace. Population health is another constituent part of the wok process. Though, the life of people should be predetermined with awareness of effects and effects considered with their workspace and straightforward requirements of the senior staff.
The technological approach for the use of industrial equipment today is intended to make more efforts in power saving and useful work of the appliances. Here the terms of input and output pressure, air and shaft power are vital to be discussed. The thing is that these factors are the most significant when talking about fan performance in modern industrial and technical know-how. According to Popendorf (2006), such element of the fan performance as the recommended operating range gives an expert good estimate of the fan performance. Thus, such features as pressure and power should be taken into account for the research of the effects which are apparent in the use of fans for the industrial need.
A fan is simple in its arrangement: rotating impeller fixed on a shaft and supposedly there can be used glowing filament. Everything enumerated is placed in the cylindrical casing. However, the physical laws do not give many possibilities for the fans to work effectively or for all it is worth. The presupposed effects are pressure, power, and types of fans. Concerning Gardiner & Harrington (2005) fans include the notion of its total pressure, velocity pressure and static pressure. In this respect, it is necessary to admit that the dynamics of fan input and output pressure can be affected by such physical factors as obstacles for air on the way of the input duct. According to this, the users should check that the space around the fan is free from any obstacle which interferes with the operations of a fan.
Power efficiency is another factor that can affect fan performance if not used correctly. In this respect, it is useful to measure power emerging in the fan into airpower and shaft power. Gardiner & Harrington (2005, p. 454) admit that fan efficiency depends on the mutual correlation of airpower and shaft power expressed in the percentage view:
Fan efficiency = airpower / shaft power × 100%
Thus, if air power is less than shaft power or shaft power is more than air power in their relevant readings of work, then it will affect the fan efficiency and its performance as well. Popendorfd (2006) relates this feature to real fan efficiency and power consumption.
Reference List
Gardiner, K & Harrington, JM 2005, Occupational Hygiene, Ed. 3, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ.
Popendorf, W 2006, Industrial hygiene control of airborne chemical hazards CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.