HVLS Ceiling Fan
Industrial Ceiling Fan
A direct-drive IE5 fan that covers up to 1,700 m2 of high-bay floor on 1.5 kW, with no gearbox and no oil change for the life of the installation.
HVLS Ceiling Fans in a Metal Pressing and Fabrication Plant
A metal pressing and fabrication plant. The client is not named at their request; the installation photographs are our own.
Project Challenge
The Building and the Problem
A high-bay pressing hall with mechanical presses running continuously, material stacked along the aisles and people working at fixed stations. Heat from the presses and from the building fabric collected at roof level, and the existing floor-standing fans covered only the stations nearest them while occupying floor space that material handling needed.
Customer pain points
- Heat generated by the machinery accumulated because it was not discharged in time, which in a press shop is a wear problem as well as a comfort problem
- Floor-standing horn fans obstructed the placement of material and reduced production efficiency
- Dozens of small fans meant dozens of motors to maintain and a total power consumption that was hard to justify
- Some bays had material stacked to height, so airflow at floor level did not reach the people behind it
Our Solution
What Was Installed and Why
Industrial HVLS ceiling fans over the press lines and the machining rows, positioned to clear the crane and lighting runs, with big movable floor fans retained at the fabrication benches where the work moves between positions and a fixed installation would have been wrong within a month.
1
Fan positions planned around the structure
Positions were set against the roof structure and the crane travel rather than by dividing floor area, because that is what determines real coverage in a building with stacked material.
2
Ceiling fans for the fixed stations
The press and machining rows are permanent, so the coverage per fan of the industrial range is the efficient answer and the floor stays clear.
3
Movable fans where the work moves
At the fabrication benches the hot spot follows the job, which is exactly the case the wheeled HVLS format exists for.
4
Supply matched at the factory
Motors were wound for the grid voltage on site so the installation was a connection rather than a transformer job.
Quality Control
What Was Checked Before Despatch
- Stator withstand-voltage testing and blade dynamic balancing on every unit before despatch
- Functional test with the controller fitted prior to crating
- Mounting detail issued for the specific roof structure with loads at the fixing point
Final result
Air movement across the whole hall rather than at the stations nearest a fan, the floor freed of the drum fans that had been obstructing material handling, and a single controller type across the installation.
Customer benefit
A workshop where air movement at the working plane is designed rather than improvised, with far fewer motors to clean, service and replace.
Products Used
The Equipment in This Reference
HVLS Ceiling Fan
HVLS Floor Fan
Big Movable Fan
A wheeled HVLS fan that throws air up to 28 m in open space, for bays where nothing can be hung from the roof and the cooling has to follow the work.
High Temperature Axial Fan
GKF GKT Drying Fan
Rated for 130 C ambient and 98 percent humidity, in eleven diameters and four mounting types, for paint lines, tobacco, rubber, pharmaceutical and timber drying.
Other Project References
Questions
Questions About This Installation
Yes, with the positions planned around the crane travel and the rail height. Send the clear height to the underside of the rail and the rail spacing and we will confirm which diameter can be hung and whether the fans sit between bays.
It reduces coverage, which is why the layout is drawn rather than calculated from floor area. Where material is stacked to height, portable fans at the aisle ends usually fill the gap better than another ceiling fan would.
Because the fabrication benches move. A wheeled fan follows the work; a ceiling fan does not. Most real workshops end up with a mix for exactly this reason.
HVLS fan installation is normally one to two working days per building using a scissor lift and two or three people, with the final connection made by a licensed electrician.
A Building Like This One
Send a photograph of the roof structure and the building dimensions. That is usually enough to start.