Whether you’re looking to cool large facilities, provide outstanding air flow, or destratify air layers, HVLS ceiling fans are a highly capable, energy efficient solution.
5 Benefits of Large HVLS Ceiling Fans
Fans have long been used in history to provide personal cooling. Thanks to the evaporative effect where air passed over the skin helps to cool the body, even just waving a hand can provide significant cooling in hot environments.
HVLS fans are the apex of fan technology. Thanks to their large diameters, their blades are able to move incredible amounts of air to provide cooling and air circulation to even the largest of facilities.
1. Provide Cooling
The evaporative cooling process has never had a better partner than HVLS fans. With long blades, these fans are able to provide a powerful cooling effect by moving huge amounts of air downward and across the skin of workers and personnel.
2. Circulate Air Better
Because HVLS ceiling fans can move so much air, they are more than capable of mixing the air within even the largest of industrial and commercial facilities. In extra large structures with tall ceilings, air will stratify, meaning there will be layers of cool air and warm air.
HVLS ceiling fans make short work of mixing even the largest volume of air to destratify the facility, provide fresh, circulated air, and stabilize temperatures.
3. Quiet Operation
One of the amazing benefits of HVLS ceiling fans is their quiet operation. Because they do not need to spin as fast as normal fans due to their large diameters, their operation is quiet, so much so that they are actually hard to hear. One of the few downsides to fans is their noise, but not so with HVLS ceiling fans.
4. Save on Energy Costs
In conjunction with their quiet operation, HVLS ceiling fans are actually very energy efficient due to their low speeds. For facilities with no other cooling systems, HVLS ceiling fans can not only provide cooling, but do so at a low operational cost.
5. Serve Large and Even Giant Facilities
HVLS ceiling fans offer an incredible amount of power and efficiency that can improve conditions for larger facilities. In fact, depending on the size of your facility, even a pair of HVLS ceiling fans can significantly cool and circulate air.
Applications for Large HVLS Ceiling Fans
HVLS fans truly make their mark in large facilities where HVAC systems are simply out of the question due to the expense of capable systems and how much energy it requires to run them. That said, HVLS ceiling fans are great tools in a variety of applications and can benefit many types of businesses.
Warehousing
When discussing the largest of structures, warehouses are at the top. Massive floor areas and tall ceilings mean that HVAC systems are simply not feasible, and that means a hot and stale interior climate during spring and summer months. The perfect solution to this problem is reliance on HVLS ceiling fans, both to provide cooling to warehouse personnel and to keep the air properly mixed and fresh.
Manufacturing
Often as large as warehouses, manufacturing facilities are giant structures that typically also contain large equipment that put off heat and sometimes even mild fumes. HVLS ceiling fans are an excellent choice for manufacturing as they work to mix the air so that the air near the machines isn’t warmer than elsewhere, as well as providing great circulation and a downdraft for workers and personnel to keep cool as they operate.
Hangars and Garages
While smaller than manufacturing facilities and warehouses, hangars and garages are unique in that they often have large bay and/or garage doors that are open to the outside, allowing vehicles and aircraft to enter and exit. Facilities open to the exterior climate cannot rely on HVAC systems as this would be a money pit with all of the conditioned air free to leave the building.
In their stead, HVLS ceiling fans readily provide the cooling necessary for mechanics to stay comfortable while they perform critical tasks, and keep the air fresh and mixed as it flows in and out of the open facility.
Commercial Gyms
Commercial gyms are similar to manufacturing facilities except instead of machinery creating thermal energy, it’s people exercising. In fact, many commercial gyms themselves rely upon warehouse-type structures to offer significant square footage to their guests for all of the best equipment, but this is a problem for proper cooling. Especially when guests are busy working themselves into a sweat, there is no better solution than the installation of an HVLS ceiling fan to use all of that sweat and maximize the evaporative cooling effect.
Gym goers will thank you mightily as they see those big blades spinning providing fresh air that cools.
Restaurants and Bars
Another fantastic opportunity for HVLS ceiling fans is restaurants and bars, especially those with significant outdoor areas. Although the largest facilities should choose HVLS fans with the largest blade diameters, they come in short lengths that are ideal for cooling down a patio area or outdoor bar.
How Do Large HVLS Ceiling Fans Provide Cooling?
Large HVLS ceiling fans provide cooling by delivering a consistent, large volume air floor that initiates the evaporative cooling effect as it passes over the skin. Because their blades are so long, a handful of fans can provide significant cooling to even the largest of structures.
Can Large HVLS Fans Also Provide Heating?
Yes! Just like normal fans, large HVLS ceiling fans can be spun the opposite direction, bringing warm air that rises to the ceiling downwards to mix in with colder air and provide an overall increase in felt temperature.
Can Large HVLS Fans Help Air Conditioning Systems?
Of special note to facilities that do run HVAC systems, large HVLS ceiling fans are an incredible adjunct that can help significantly reduce operational costs of the HVAC system. By utilizing both methods instead of complete reliance on large HVAC systems, this allows facilities to reduce their costs and the wear and tear on their likely very expensive HVAC system.
Discover the Best in Modern Large HVLS Ceiling Fans with TBC Supply
At TBC Supply, our mission is to offer customers the best in large HVLS ceiling fans to provide significant cooling and air flow. No matter your application, we have a selection of HVLS fans that can deliver these benefits and keep your personnel and customers comfortable.
Reach out to our experts today and we’ll analyze your unique situation together and find the perfect HVLS fan for you.