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Process Air That Holds Its Point, Year After Year

52,000 CMH180 mmWC100 HPbelt drive

A Maharashtra-based sugar and process-plant EPC builds installations where the process air never stops. When the plant runs, the fan runs — through the season, across the plant's whole life. Air that flags on duty is not an inconvenience here; it is the process losing its footing.

The duty

52,000 CMH at 180 mmWC on a 100 HP belt drive is high-volume process air under continuous running. Two things make it hard. The fan has to move that volume without wandering off its point — not on commissioning day, but years into the run. And it has to be tunable: belt drive is the deliberate choice, so fan speed can be set to the duty on site rather than assumed at the factory.

What we supplied

Belt-drive centrifugal blowers, direct blowers, and spares — each selected to the customer's own GA drawing, made to order, not pulled off a shelf. The belt drive is there for a reason: it lets fan speed be trimmed to the real duty, so the fan sits on its point instead of near it.

Every fan is performance-tested in-house on our 200 HP VFD test rig, to the IS 4894 / AMCA 210 method, before it leaves the works. You get the curve for your machine, not a family average — proof, not promises.

The relationship

This is not one order. It is sustained, multi-year, repeat supply — new fans when a line is built, spares when a machine has run long enough to need them. They keep coming back because the fans hold their point and the spares fit the first time. That is the whole test of a process-air supplier: not the first fan, but the one after it, order after order.

Bring us your duty

If you run continuous process air and need a fan that holds its point across a long plant life — or spares that match the machine already installed — send us the duty point and the GA drawing. We will select to your numbers and test to them before anything ships.

— Mihir Kulkarni, Director, Jitamitra Electro Engineering

Engineered for Every Application.

From our own floor

Fans we've built for sugar & distillery process.

Real dispatched fans from this duty class — nameplate-scrubbed. Representative of the work; not the customer's own unit.

Jitamitra centrifugal fan built for sugar & distillery process
Jitamitra centrifugal fan built for sugar & distillery process
Jitamitra centrifugal fan built for sugar & distillery process
Jitamitra centrifugal fan built for sugar & distillery process
Jitamitra centrifugal fan built for sugar & distillery process
Jitamitra centrifugal fan built for sugar & distillery process
Questions

Frequently asked

Will a process fan still sit on its duty point years into continuous running?

That is the whole test. When the plant runs, the fan runs — through the season, across the plant's whole life. The fan has to move its volume without wandering off its point, not on commissioning day but years into the run. Air that flags on duty is the process losing its footing.

Why specify a belt drive rather than direct drive on a large process fan?

So the speed can be set on site rather than assumed at the factory. 52,000 CMH at 180 mmWC on a 100 HP belt drive is high-volume process air under continuous running, and it has to be tunable. The belt drive lets fan speed be trimmed to the real duty, so the fan sits on its point instead of near it.

Do I get a curve for my actual machine, or a catalogue figure?

For your machine. Every fan is performance-tested in-house on our 200 HP VFD test rig, to the IS 4894 / AMCA 210 method, before it leaves the works. You get the curve for your machine, not a family average — proof, not promises. Selection is made to your own GA drawing.

Can you supply spares for a fan of yours already installed and running?

Yes — belt-drive centrifugal blowers, direct blowers and spares, each selected to the customer's own GA drawing, made to order, not pulled off a shelf. New fans when a line is built, spares when a machine has run long enough to need them. Send the duty point and the GA drawing.

Are the photographs on this page the actual fans supplied on this project?

No, and the page says so. They are real dispatched fans from this duty class, nameplate-scrubbed — representative of the work, not the customer's own unit. Treat them as evidence of what comes off our floor for sugar and distillery process air, not as a record of the installed machines.

Ready to quote?

Send us the duty point. We'll quote in 3 to 5 working days.*

Flow, static, gas temperature, application — or attach a spec, GA drawing or a multi-fan schedule. Engineer to engineer.

Get a quote → Email the desk

ISO 9001:2015 quality system · performance-tested to IS 4894 / ISO 5801 / AMCA 210 method · witnessed FAT on request.

*For our standard range. ATEX and special projects need 5 to 7 working days.