FRP Cooling Tower:-
FRP cooling towers are designed in a special way for heat exchange allowing air and water to come into contact with each other. We manufacture FRP cooling towers that are offered in both counter and axial flow models. The FRP towers are widely used in air conditioning plant, induction furnaces, sheet rolling mills, chilling plant/refrigeration, diesel generator set/turbines, injection molding/plastic industries, automobile industries and mechanical and forging industries. These towers are manufactured using high grade material that makes them corrosion resistant, and helps in resisting water borne bacteria and organisms. This is light in weight, which permits roof installation with special reinforcement of any kind. The special construction helps in consumption of less power because of a lesser amount of air resistance to water.
FRP Cooling Tower Fan Blades:-
While industrial cooling towers are not exactly known for a huge presence of caustic chemicals. There is still enough of a presence to necessitate a substance. That could resist these elements and continue to function in harsh conditions. The component that has benefited the most from FRP materials. Without a doubt, has been the fan that is present in many of the cooling towers that are used today.
Shape
- Shape:- When designing a cooling tower to meet a specific industrial need, two things must be taken into account. First, the designers must make sure that enough water is pumped into the system to effectively mitigate the heat that is produced by the specific industrial process. Second, they must make sure that an appropriate amount of airflow is forced. Through the tower in order to make sure that the water is properly cooled along the fill material.
FRP fan blades
- FRP fan blades are ideal for this application because they allow designers a greater degree of control over the shape of the fan blades. Mold them into the best shape possible to achieve the airflow that must be achieved. Traditional aluminum blades could only be shaped to a certain degree before the structure of the blades themselves was compromised. Additionally, metal fan blades must be attached to an axis at multiple points. Greatly increasing the chances that a connector will fail or the balance of the fan will be thrown off. Because FRP fan blades are molded into a single piece, there are far fewer points on the entire fan assembly that can fail. Even better, these fan blades can be shaped to the most optimal angle possible. Meaning that they are able to circulate air more efficiently than an aluminum fan blade could ever hope to accomplish.
Resistance to Corrosion
- Resistance to Corrosion: As we stated previously, most cooling towers are not exactly teeming with caustic chemicals, however, this does not mean that corrosive elements are not present within the system. Given enough time, water is one of the most corrosive elements in the known universe. This seemingly innocent substance has shaped the surface of our planet, digging canyons and valleys out of solid rock. While aluminum is excellent at resisting the corrosive properties of water. It is still only a metal and, as we all know, metal and water don’t exactly get along.
- Over time, an aluminum fan blade will always succumb to the effects of water. Requiring a replacement lest the fan blade break and cause damage to the internal components of the tower. FRP fan blades, on the other hand, do not suffer from this same defect. These fan blades are highly resistant to any and all corrosive elements . Are able to stand the test of time in a way that is vastly superior to any other substance used in the construction of fan blades.
Weight
- Weight: Because cooling tower fans tend to run at thousands of RPMs. It is necessary to construct fan blades out of a material that is not only strong enough to stand up to the rotational forces. That are placed on it but a material that is also light. Enough to place unneeded stress on the motor of the fan assembly. Before the introduction of FRP materials, aluminum was the best option for fan blade design because of its excellent strength to weight ratio. FRP fan blades, however, are even better than aluminum at providing a fan blade that is both strong and light.
At Industrial Cooling Solutions, Inc., we are dedicated to providing the best cooling tower services possible and we believe, quite strongly. The FRP fan blades are the best option for nearly every application that our customers may have.
Below, we have listed a few reasons that FRP fan blades have become an industry standard and why more and more cooling tower manufacturers are recommending these fan blades over their aluminum counterparts.