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The Fläkt Woods Engineering Community

A team of experts in: >> Energy efficiency >> Aerodynamics >> Acoustics >> Air treatment >> Heat transfer >> Vibrations >> CFD modeling >> FEA Analysis

Technology is at the core of product development. The development of new products requires new technology. For an engineering company, the ability to innovatively originate new technology more rapidly then competitors is a source of competitive advantage.

Innovation within any single context is not a single activity. Fan technology may be regarded as a single context however a spectrum of technology is required to improving product performance, minimising cost and risk. At one extreme, new computational methods can elucidate the physical flow mechanisms at play within the fan blades, and in so doing provide new insight into those aspects of blade design that are limiting aerodynamic and acoustic performance. At the other extreme, web based product design applications go beyond globalisation, they render global geographic location irrelevant and in so doing leverage capability developed in one region globally.

Flakt Woods believes in the value of new technology, and has a systematic process for its development and industrialisation. The development of new technology is an investment in a future that will become progressively more challenging as concern over global worming puts progressively grater pressure of manufactures to produce more efficient products.

Geoff Sheard
Vice President
Fan Technology


 

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  • Basic Research – unsteady CFD and the use of CFD to predict overall fan noise and noise spectrum.
  • Basic Research – Passive noise control using blade tip end-plates.
  • Basic Research – An acoustic stall detection system.
  • Basic Research – Very high pressure blade design using “whale fan” technology.
  • Basic Research – Particle tracking with mass within CFD to predict erosion rate of fans in erosive environments.
  • Applied Research – Anti-stall rings, and the physics underpinning correct aerodynamic performance prediction and mechanical design.
  • Applied Research – Fan blade and hub optimisation methodology for the design of fans intended for one time only emergency operation at 300C or 400C for two hours.
  • Applied Research – on line product selection and design tools.