Xcelaero provides best-in-class air-movement solutions for the demanding requirements of aerospace and defense platforms with vane axial, mixed flow, and centrifugal fans and blowers. Our high-efficiency, low-noise systems are modular and customizable, with varying diameters and motor types and the capabilities to produce a wide range of flow rates and air pressures, according to the specific needs of the customer. Our existing production lines allow for cost-effective implementation of our fans into newly developed or retrofitted systems, and we can also design a custom fan from the ground up to meet your requirements. If an existing fan does not meet your requirements, Xcelaero can design a custom fan for your application. Xcelaero fans are the current choice for numerous customers in the aerospace and defense market.
Our air movers are powered by high-speed, direct drive electric motors. This allows the air movers to be compact and lightweight package. Our fans are designed to accept various drive and motor types including 400Hz induction synchronous motors, brushless direct current motors, and permanent magnetics synchronous motors. Fan voltage options include:
Xcelaero also produces shaft-driven fans and blowers in accordance with customer requirements.
Xcelaero specializes in the design and manufacturing of high-power density air movers with significant experience in vaneaxial and centrifugal fan development. The Xcelaero fan catalog ranges from a few CFM flow to flow rates greater than 18,000 CFM.
In addition, these fans are designed for high operating temperatures. These fans are developed by integrating patented aerodynamic and thermal design in a multidisciplinary optimization process between the aerodynamic, electromagnetic, and mechanical design engineering activities. The resulting fans have demonstrated high performance characteristics, low noise, and high efficiency in a compact form factor.
Xcelaero has extensive reference designs and products that have comprehensive noise test results. This allows for high confidence in design of new fans for high performance while minimizing the noise.
Xcelaero’s fans are designed for low noise, which requires several key considerations and techniques to minimize noise while maintaining efficiency and performance. The major steps in the design for low noise process includes:
The first step in design for noise is preliminary aerodynamic design to ensure smooth airflow. This includes optimizing the blade shape, angle, and spacing to reduce turbulence and noise.
The number of blades and their design can significantly impact noise levels and the specific noise frequencies.
The tone noise can be optimized by carefully selecting the number of stator vanes to specifically avoid combinations of rotor and stator blade counts that amplify noise.
The tip clearance is the gap between the blade tips and the casing in a fan. This gap can significantly impact fan noise due to tip leakage, vortex formations, pressure fluctuations and aerodynamic losses.
Use materials that dampen vibrations and therefore reduce noise. In some case, acoustic treatments such as sound-absorbing materials in the fan housing or ducts to reduce noise propagation.
The electric motor can be a major source of noise. The motor and motor drive needs to be designed to make sure items such as current ripple, and phase noise is minimized
Xcelaero specializes in making mission critical equipment for aircraft and military vehicles. Our proven designs are agile and modular, allowing us to provide rapid, cost-effective solutions to our customers across a wide variety of applications. We also have the engineering expertise and capability to create new systems from the ground up, depending on the needs of our customer. All our products are backed by our long-term service and support commitments. Contact us with your requirements today.
Xcelaero’s Flow series of fans are axial and vane axial fans designed to be robust, light weight, and compact, and have been optimized for low pressure applications in the aerospace and defense market. The fans in the Flow series can provide between 25 cfm and 5,000 cfm of flow. The fans are available with a variety of motors and can run off AC or DC power.
Xcelaero’s Force series of fans are optimized for cost and performance. The Force fans are vane axial fans designed to be robust, light weight, compact and low noise for the aerospace and defense market. The fans in this series can provide between 150 cfm and 3,400 cfm of flow. The fans are available with a variety of motors and can run off AC or DC power.
Xcelaero’s Galeforce series of fans are optimized for high performance, high efficiency, and low weight. The Galeforce fans are high-performance vane axial fans designed to be robust, light weight, compact, and low noise for the aerospace and defense market. Galeforce fans utilize 5 axis machined impellers and guide vanes to maximize performance. The fans in this series can provide between 200 cfm and 20,500 cfm of flow. The fans are available with a variety of motors and can run off AC or DC power.
Xcelaero’s Helios series of fans are optimized for high pressure applications. The Helios fans are high-performance centrifugal fans designed to be robust, light weight, compact and low noise for the aerospace and defense market. The fans in this series can provide between 50 cfm and 9,000 cfm of flow.
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