[Gasification] blower suggestions?

David G. LeVine dlevine at speakeasy.net
Fri Aug 10 00:34:26 EDT 2007


At 12:35 AM 8/9/2007, you wrote:
>   Will you please size for me a radial blade centrifugal blower to 
> run a 300mm diameter fire tube?
>   Recently I fabricated one with the following: Impeller diam 
> 300mm, eye diam 75mm number of blades 8, blade width 60mm, rpm 
> 2800. The gasifier produces smoke insted. Is there a formula for 
> estimating volume output of such a blower?

Lindsay Publications has a book by David J "Uncle Dave" Gingery 
called "how to design and build CENTRIFUGAL FANS for the home 
workshop" (ISBN 1-917914-60-0) which has ALL the equations in it.


David G. LeVine
Nashua, NH  03060




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