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ID Fan Shaft Diameter

07/27/2013 4:36 AM

Dear Sir,

I m working in Thermal power plant. i m having a doubt regarding fan shaft i.e. one end of shaft is having more diameter and other end is small. why cant we have same shaft of having more dia in drive end on the non drive end.

Please clarify & help me

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07/27/2013 4:52 AM

If you apply some knowledge and imagination to this "problem," you might think of some possibilities on your own.

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07/27/2013 7:26 AM

You can. The OEM spec it out like that to the motor manufacture. You can do the same.

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07/27/2013 2:23 PM

I know there is a language barrier here at times and it makes it hard to know what is being really ask about. If I read this correctly it seem there is a step in the shaft that your questioning for some reason. Did you have a failure at this step or are you just curious as to why this was done.

In some cases the step is done because the torque on the shaft from motor allows a smaller coupling to be used. The fan or driven unit needs to have the larger shaft due to loads or other issues. This is not un-common to see. Ask the manufacture why they had elected to provide this on that unit. This will give you a much more complete answer to your question.

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07/27/2013 10:25 PM

If ever you've had the misfortune to see the aftermath of a fan shaft shear it becomes obvious.

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07/28/2013 8:30 PM

Maybe one end only supports the radial loads of the impeller (NonDriveEnd) while the oposite (DriveEnd), must take as well the transmision of power from the motor, so it would be the radial loads + torsion. More important during start-up.

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07/29/2013 4:42 AM

The driving end shaft is always bigger diameter for driving the load and the non driving end is usually smaller for cooling fan. Sometime is the shaft is the same and most of the time is not the same size. It depend upon the manufacture and the engineer that design it.

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12/27/2013 3:02 AM

Dear Mr. srini vasu38,

The Drive end will ave to transmit the entire Torque, where the TORSIONAL STRESS/STRAIN will be the Maximum and in the Non-Drive end such stress is not severe.Hence mathematically, lesser Dia Meter since the Equation is T = Pi x D^3. x Fs/16 where T = Torque, Pi - 3.14 (you know, how to insert the Symbol, CR4 Members can help me) D = dia. of the shaft, Fs = Shear Stress.

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