Abstract
A ceiling fan is utilized to circulate the air in the room during summer. The operation of ceiling fan must be quieter and air circulation must be even throughout the room. It should consume less amount of electricity too. The conventional ceiling fan blades are made up of sheet metal. These blades consist of substantial weight, and the whole assembly requires more electricity to run smoothly. The use of lighter materials for fan blades instead of sheet metal can provide an ample amount of weight saving. Therefore, the objective of this study is to manufacture the fan blades using Carbon Fibre Reinforced Composites (CFRC) and compare its performance with conventional ceiling fan. The industrial standard was used to fabricate the CFRC fan blades. The sheet metal blades were replaced by newly developed CFRC blades, and the data was recorded and analysed. The performance of the CFRC blades mounted fans were tested for the current requirement, power consumption, fan speed and air delivery at 180 and 230 V. The obtained outcomes were compared with the data available for the conventional ceiling fan. It was noticed that the fans mounted with CFRC blades provided higher rotational speed at lower current and consumed less power than the sheet metal blade fans. Nonetheless, the observed air delivery and peak velocity were inferior. This issue might appear due to slight variation in pitch angle or shape/size of the CFRC blades than the original sheet metal fan blades and could be resolved using stringent design and fabrication norms for CFRC fan blades.
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Garg, H., Singh, J., Tyagi, M.R., Singh, K., Aditya, K., Gupta, H. (2019). Comparative Study of Sheet Metal and Carbon Fibre Reinforced Composites Ceiling Fan Blade. In: Kumar, M., Pandey, R., Kumar, V. (eds) Advances in Interdisciplinary Engineering . Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6577-5_39
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