Air Curtains for Industrial
Industrial air curtain has a wide range applications in many industrial industries. Industrial air curtains help to creat appropriate temperature,humidity as well as comfortable working environment in industrial plants.
Content Table
What’s An Industrial Air Curtain?
How Do Air Curtain Work?
Features of Industrial Air Curtain
Benefits
Industrial Air Curtains Applications
Where to Install Air Curtains
How to Select Industrial Air Curtains
What’s An Industrial Air Curtain?
An industrial air curtain is specially designed for application in industrial premises,such as manufacturing plants, cold rooms, logistics distribution centers & warehouses,mining,chemical & fabrication industries,etc. Industrial air curtains do helps on the improvement of environmental conditions,energy savings and working efficiency in industrial industries.
How Do Industrial Air Curtains Work?
Different from regular commercial air curtains, industrial air curtains applies very powerful big motors and reinforced large size air curtain blowers and giant cabinet to create thick invisible air screen by its super strong air pressure and relatively larger airflow.
Air Curtain Types According to Cabinet Material
Stainless Steel Air Curtain
Stainless steel air curtains are recomended for high humidity premises. Its casing/cabinet is made of stainless steel grade 304 or better grade with excellent corrosion resistance. Industrial air curtains with stainless steel cabinet can work well in costal places, cold rooms, rainy and island areas.
Plastic & EPP Material Air Curtain
Plastic air curtains are also popular among many places,they are light-weighted and also have good features for corrosion resistance. However its strength, hardness and toughness is lower than metal material. EPP material air curtain also light-weighted and less working vibration becaused of soft material feature. However, expensive costs make it not so friendly to many customers.
Aluminum Alloy Air Curtain
Air curtain cabinet made of aluminum alloy material has beautiful shining appearance, light-weighted and superior physical toughness in long term operation. But cost is higher than that of other materials.
Standard Steel Air Curtain with Powder Coating
Steel material air curtains with powder coating are popular around the world because of its acceptable corrosion resistance,costs,customized color options. And it suitable for most premises applications,such as regular loading docks, workshops,logistics distribution centers,shopping mall,etc.
Gavanized Steel Air Curtain
Air curtains with gavanized steel cabinet are corrosion resistant, abration resistant, durable and low-maintenance as well as relatively lower costs.
Industrial Air Curtain Types According to Blower Structure
Tangential Blower/ Impeller
Industrial air curtains with tangential blower have relatively bigger size metal impellers and relatively larger air volume and smooth airflow. And these big metal blowers build up the stable and seamless air wall between different areas.
Centrifugal Blower/Impeller
Industrial air curtains with centrifugal blowers structure is the major industrial air curtains type in global scale. They are consist of multiple centrifugal fans, which generate constant air streams with strong air pressure and super high air speed. In some case, these type of air curtains air velocity could reach more than 30m/s, especially suitable for industrial doors with height range from 4-10 meters.
Axial Blower/Impeller
Industrial air curtain with axial blower structure is not so popular as other types of industrial air curtains, but it featured with smooth and stable airflow and extreme large air volume. Particularly, axial blowers type air curtains with heating function,create large stream of hot airflow and warm up large spaces efficiently.
Features of Industrial Air Curtains
Industrial air curtains are quite different from any other types of air curtains because of the unique features of industrial premises.
Big Size & Heavy Duty Design
Industrial air curtains are specially designed with big-size cabinets, particularly, some of the cabinets are made of stainless steel or gavanized steel materials with excellent features of corrosion resistance. Besides, they are desined with extremely large sized fan blowers, heavy duty motor, more advanced bearings for industrial purpose.
Extremely Strong Performance
Industrial air curtains are designed with big motors,blowers and bearing driving system.which creates super large air flow/air volume, super strong air speed/air pressure. As a result, the air isolation between indoors and outdoors effect are strong enough for large space areas.
Large & High Entrance/Doors
Industrial air curtains are widely applied above large entrance doors, of which heights range from 4 meters to 8 meters. And door widths are also big, ranging from 2 meters to 6 meters.
Mostly Installed on Industrial Doors/Dock Doors
Heavy duty air curtains are especially widely installed over industrial doors, dock doors, high speed doors, PVC strip doors. Moreover, industrial air curtains are designed with multiple mounting options for different types industrial doors installation,including ceiling hanging installation, vertical installation, installation against extra brackets,etc. Contact us to learn more.
Benefits of Industrial Air Curtain:
An air curtain has a lot of benefits for industrial industries. Following are some examples.
- Maintain required temperatures & humidities
- Improve transportation efficiency
- Stops flies,bacteria,dust,odors from outside
- Save energy from industrial HVAC systems
- Improve efficiency of smoke control and ventilation systems
Industrial Air Curtain Applications
Manufacturing Factories
Smart manufacturing factories managers install industrial air curtains in many entrances and doors in their production plants. Because air curtains help on improvement of production quality standard by keeping up required stable temperature & humidity levels and dust free environments.
Beside, air curtains installed in laboratories,offices,test room in the manufacturing factories creates stable temperatures and humidity at required levels. And stable humidity and temperature levels are important for employee in a manufacturing plant. In some instances, poor temperature and humidity levels can affect employee health. Excessively High or low humidity levels can lead to skin or respiratory conditions and other physical uncomfort make employee difficult to concentrate their works. There is a research explain this well as follows:
According to Dr. Bijan Najafi, professor in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor and director of clinical research in the division of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy, the relationship between office humidity levels and health can cost the employer in terms of productivity and sick leave. He and fellow researchers wanted to understand the impact that relative humidity has on health and well-being in real-world conditions.
refer from: https://healthsciences.arizona.edu/newsroom/news-releases/2019/relative-humidity-workplace-can-impact-employee-health
Food Processing & Pharmaceutical Plants
Industrial air curtains are widely applied in food and pharmaceutical plants to protect food and parmaceutical facilities in in the processing and storage areas from entrance of flying insects,bacteria,dusts. Furthermore, air curtains also do help in keeping up required temperatures and humidities for food & pharmaceutical process,storage and improve the safety and quality of raw material and finished products. Especially,industrial air curtains are badly needed for some areas which require strict and stable temperature & humidity ranges. For example,pharmaceutical manufacturing,storage areas. read more
Logistics & Warehouse
Air curtains applied in warehouses and logistics distribution centers can effectively improve the efficiency of goods transportation. Since air curtains create free non-obstructive entrances for trolleys,forklifts, workers to pass through, and ultimately lead to the improvement of overall working efficiency and workplace safety.What’s more, air curtains can also protect inside warehouse temperatures and humidities from outside heat or cold and ultimately protect goods well.
Electrical & Electronics Products Plant
Electronics manufacturing and assembly plants apply industrial air curtains to create a stable environmental conditions with required humidity and free of dust. When expose to high humidity and dusty environment, electrical and electronics products can experience corrosion and induced insulation resistance ,which ultimately lead to short circuits. Fortunately,industrial air curtains work well in keeping up stable relatively low humidity and clean production environment for electronics products.
Where To Install Industrial Air Curtains ?
Entrances of Raw Material Warehouses
Industrial air curtains installed above the entrances of raw material warehouses creates high pressure and large volume airflow to stop excessive heat, dust, flies from outside so as to ensure clean and perfect storage environmental conditions for raw material.
Office Entrance
An air door over office door creates a strong air wall between office areas and manufacturing areas. It helps to protect office areas from odors, dusts,excessive heat or cold air,which come from other areas.
Entrance of Manufacturing Areas
Industrial air curtains above the entrance of production plants help ensure perfect indoor environmental conditions for high standard production. Beside, air curtains can also improve effectiveness of smoke control & ventilation system by isolating the smoke in the manufacturing areas and ultimately drive it to extraction systems.
Entrance of Finished Products Warehouse
Air curtains above entrances of warehouse create a strong environmental seperation against outdoors extrem temperature,humidity and protects goods in the warehouse in a long term.
How To Select The Best Industrial Air Curtain?
It’s very important to select appropriate industrial air curtains for different entrances. Suggest to read the following tips before make decision.
Air Curtain Sizes & Entrance Size
firstly make sure entrance height and then check with air curtain airflow effective distance; Then check entrance length and select how many air curtains and which size air curtains you need to install.
Applications Premises
Secondly, take application premises into account. For a cold place application, you need to select air curtain with heaters; For a dangerous place,such as chemical raw materials, petroleum, fabircation process area, you need to install anti-explosion air curtain.
Cabinet / Casing / Housing Material
Casing material is another important factor in industrial air curtain selections and applications. There are popular optional cabinet material for air curtains casing, such as standard steel, aluminum alloy,gavanized steel, stainless steel and plastic.
