Corrosive Environments

The Importance Of Using Corrosion Resistant Equipment

Do your process applications create a corrosive environment for your equipment? Many industries, businesses and agricultural facilities; including refineries, oil fields, dairies, pork and poultry barns, paper mills, paint booths, dip tanks, steel working, manufacturing, laboratories and chemical plants, all have corrosive environments that can negatively affect equipment performance, resulting in the need for more frequent repairs and replacement of equipment. Thankfully, you can remove and ventilate areas that contain high levels of corrosives by adding the right kind off ventilation designed for these harsh atmospheric conditions: corrosion resistant industrial fans.

Corrosive Environments: Its Affect On Equipment

Corrosive environments can quickly cause a degradation of manufacturing and processing equipment, leading to frequent repairs and/or replacement. When choosing machinery, it’s important to choose products that are covered in an anti-corrosion coating or constructed from alloys that are known to be corrosion resistant, including stainless steel, copper, nickel and chromium. Corrosion resistant equipment, like fans and ventilators, may also be constructed out of fiberglass, polypropylene or another type of composite material that isn’t susceptible to corrosive chemicals and environmental conditions.

Removing Corrosive Materials via Venting Fans

Maintaining a healthy environment that is free of corrosive fumes may be as simple as installing one or more ventilation or exhaust fans to help ensure the contaminated air is removed from the building or circulated to areas that contain air purifiers or HVAC equipment with high-quality filters that can remove contaminants and vent the air from the building.  Specially designed Circulator fans may also be used to continually move air within the building so that concentrations of corrosive gases can not accumulate in an given area.

4 Benefits of Corrosive Resistant Industrial Fans

In highly-corrosive environments, standard HVAC, fan and ventilation equipment is just as susceptible to corrosion as other types of machinery. For this reason, it’s important to always purchase corrosion-resistant ventilation products so they do not rust, experience excessive wear or have their internal and external parts corrode prematurely.

1. Ensure Equipment Lasts Its Entire Useful Life

Acidic and base chemicals and fumes can negatively affect the metal components in machinery, causing premature wear, corrosion, rust and frequent repairs. By ventilating the fumes and adding supplemental air, you will be helping to prevent component failures and shortened equipment lifespans.

2. Experience Fewer Equipment Breakdowns

By removing exhaust gases and adding supplemental air, you will be reducing your risk of experiencing an equipment breakdown due to the corrosive chemicals coming in contact with the metal surfaces of your machinery, including all moving parts and even the electrical components.

3. Improve Equipment Performance

When machinery experiences corrosion from chemicals, hazardous exhaust fumes and toxic vapors, it starts to lose efficiency. This is especially true with HVAC and ventilation equipment that does not have any corrosion resistant coatings or been constructed out of corrosion resistant alloys. When this happens, the equipment can experience up to a 40 percent loss in energy efficiency due to excessive wear and tear from corrosion.

4. Improve Production and Productivity

When your equipment isn’t subjected to a continuously corrosive and caustic environment, you will notice that you are able to maintain production and productivity. You will need to make fewer equipment repairs, and you’ll need to replace your critical machinery and equipment less often.

Types of Corrosion Resistant Fans Available at Industrial Fans Direct

Here at Industrial Fans Direct, we offer a wide array of corrosion resistant exhaust fans, shutters and lighting that are perfect for industries, like refineries, paint booths, chemical plants and manufacturing facilities.

• Wall Ventilator Fans – Great for venting harmful gases to the outdoors in equipment rooms and shops. Can be placed through walls and windows.

• Washdown Duty Fans – Great for improving air circulation in small and large spaces. Adjustable fan head and wall-mountable.

• Air Circulator Fans – Wall mountable and adjustable. Great for moving large amounts of contaminated air so that it can be filtered by other HVAC equipment and air purifiers.

• Drum Fans – Great for removing the fumes from accidental chemical spills.

• Shutters – Ideal for protecting corrosion resistant fans from outdoor moisture and rain when not in use.

• Lighting – Vapor-proof wall mounted, hand-held and hangable lighting for corrosive environments where you need extra light around equipment.

When you need extra ventilation equipment that is corrosion resistant and vapor-proof, you can count on us to have the equipment you need and ship it in a timely manner. To learn more about our ventilation fans or to place an order, you can shop online or call us at 866-727-1060.