Usage of Industrial Centrifugal Fans in Food Industry
                     Usage of Industrial Centrifugal Fans in 
Food Industry
Neel Rao
Writes on ID Fan manufacturers & 
Reitz India Industrial centrifugal blower fans  
technologies.
Factories extensively use industrial centrifugal fans in their manufacturing 
operations, the food industry is no exception to that. The fans’ uncomplicated 
design, coupled with their excellent aerodynamic features, making them ideal to be 
used in the food sector.
The most striking feature of centrifugal fans that makes them a perfect choice is 
that, without necessitating too much vibration, they make sure that the quantity of 
air generated is fairly high. From a hygiene point of view, especially in preventing 
contamination of food, industrial centrifugal fans are a good choice.
 These are few of the benefits attributable to the centrifugal fans:
• These fans enable enhanced energy efficiency. When the cost incurred towards 
energy consumption declines, the manufacturer would be able to sell the products 
with a comparatively lower price tag.
• These fans are highly durable
• The industrial centrifugal fans are suitable to be installed even amidst harsh 
environments.
• Maintenance of this variety of fans is less and also relatively inexpensive. There are 
some industrial centrifugal fans having the ability to clean themselves.
• The fans come in varied sizes and capacities and thus can easily be deployed in a 
variety of manufacturing operations. For a variety of customized requirements in a 
manufacturing plant, a suitable centrifugal fan can be manufactured and installed.
Those are the general beneficial characteristics of centrifugal fans. It would now be 
worthwhile to focus on the positives, which are specific to the food industry. To be 
more precise, we will see as to how the individual processes of the food sector stand 
to gain from these devices.
• Safety: In food processing units where there is constant handling of flammable 
substances, the significance of centrifugal fans can never be overstated. The design 
and working of the fans ensure that the hazard of an explosion gets substantially 
minimized.
• Drying: Another pivotal process that is helped by the presence of centrifugal fans is 
drying. The fans aid in bringing down the quantity of water in foods and this, in turn, 
checks bacterial proliferation. The use of these devices becomes much more 
essential in factories where there is a continuous movement of meats, fruits and 
vegetables. Coffee, cereal foods, powdered drinks and potatoes, etc, are items 
where drying is very much necessary.
• Cooking: In food processing plants, the fans are fixed at sites where cooking is 
done. They are installed just above the furnaces and ovens and this is a definite way 
to remove gas and other noxious substances from the premises. With this, the 
health and well-being of the workers are safeguarded.
• Cooling: Industrial centrifugal fans are vital to promptly cool the foods that have 
been just cooked. In addition, such fans also maintain coolness in storage facilities. 
And, this cooling function is well taken care of by the ever-dependable centrifugal 
fans.
• Packaging: Appropriate packaging of finished food products is paramount. 
Vacuuming food packages increases the shelf life of food products. While packing 
the food product, it is important that at first a vacuum is created in the packages. 
While packing in large manufacturing units, industrial centrifugal fans are used in 
specialized packing equipment.
• Separation of foods: When the impurities and contaminants and the food have 
different densities and weights. Then centrifugal fans can be used to segregate the 
food from its impurities by the process of controlled blowing of air using centrifugal 
fans. Modern food processing equipment allows automating this process to facilitate 
the processing and removing of impurities from massive amounts of food.
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