Centrifugal fans are widely encountered in engineering practices, they are essential in the cement production process. The three dimensional, complex and turbulent flow in a centrifugal fan makes the prediction of the performance of the centrifugal fan and the examination of the flow field very difficult. Computational techniques have made a great progress, because of time and cost that may be involved in experimental analysis of the flow, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is intensively used in many industrial purposes. Nevertheless, the agreement between the numerical results and real data is a subject of many researches, because the numerical result is very sensitive to the numerical method being used, the boundary conditions applied, mesh generation and turbulence model selection. To consider the interaction between the main three parts of the fan namely the inlet, impeller, and scroll, it is necessary to carry out a three-dimensional Numerical simulation of the flow field for the whole centrifugal fan. The impeller is the important part of the centrifugal fan and the aerodynamic design of the impeller blades affects the flow passage, thus improving the aerodynamic design of the blades results in improvements of fan performance and reduction of flow separation. The selection of turbulence model depends on the flow separation that can occur, particularly in the blade passage, thus in order to get a good numerical investigation of the performance of the fan and predict the internal flow field in the impeller, a Coordinate measuring machine (CMM) machine is used as a reverse engineering tool to extract the original impeller blade design of the induced Draft fan (FN-280) by using Geomatics software for point cloud processing.
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