HVLS Fan

Highly Efficient HVLS Fan Ever

This research has been done on the development of highly efficient HVLS fan with BLDC motor for fan dia of 18-24ft. A set of several blade for BLDC motor has been tested with input powers 0.5KW, to 1.0KW with air delivery 7000CMM to 11000 CMM.

A most efficient airfoil has been selected which produces very high air delevery at low torque.

Research Contribution

A set of all blades were initially designed and numerically simulated. However the blade has not yet manufactured and tested in labs. We are looking for investor who can envest on further study, manufacturing and testing. as we are sure about numerical simulation because we have established for other fans and expecting the same as we have developed the methodologies.

After manufacturing and testing of the HVLS fan, The air delivery, torque and power results obtained from numerical simulation must highly agree with the experimental data with error lower than 3%.

The analysis of air flows over the ceiling fan blade has been performed computationally and all the data has been verified through the experimental results of existing HVLS fan. Based on the previous study by the other researchers also has been computationally testes and verified. Here, in this research we have redesign the HVLS fan blade profile for extracting maximum energy from the still air and converting it into kinetic energy for the thermal comforts. The dynamic behaviour analysis of air flows over the HVLS fan blade has been performed computationally.

Work Performed

1. The Numerical and computational analysis of unsteady behaviours, instabilities and aerodynamic performance of fanhas been performed through a different approach.

2. Geometrical modelling has been done for redesigning and modelling of fan and its parts.

3. Establishments of accurate MRF and mesh adaptation for accurate prediction of the results.

4. The Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations (URANS) numerical simulations was performed for accurate prediction.

5. Solving all the unsteady aerodynamic performance and its instabilities using URANS model with multi-reference-frame (MRF) motion.