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accommodate the larger fan. If space is limited and a
larger fan cannot be accommodated, the entire assembly
will be rendered defunct.
To Learn More
Fan engineers across the nation have reviewed the
DOE regulation and, through the coordination of Air
Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International,
produced a comprehensive document of
comments, suggestions, and questions (www.regulations
.gov, Docket ID: EERE-2022-BT-STD-0002-0166). Review
of this document to quickly familiarize oneself with the
insights and concerns of the companies most directly
impacted by the regulation is highly recommended.
In particular, the comments submitted by Donaldson
Company Inc. and the American Boiler Manufacturers
Association (ABMA) are representative of the thoughts,
concerns, and perspectives of many industrial-processequipment
manufacturers. Their key concerns are the
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high FEI levels, the inclusion of ANSI/AMCA Standard
214-21-defi ned embedded fans, downstream impacts
of the regulation, and distinct differences between
commercial-ventilation and industrial-process equipment.
Both Donaldson Company Inc. and the ABMA
request that the FEI levels start lower and that the
DOE align the regulation with the original version of
California Title 20 in regard to exemptions.
Conclusion
System effi ciency is the mathematical product of component
effi ciencies. From my days as a fan design and
applications engineer, it has been evident that fan engineers
wish fans would be selected where they had been
designed to operate, in the optimally effi cient region of
the fan curve. Although the work may be diffi cult, the
proposed regulation will align with the trend in commercial
building codes of funneling system designers to
more effi cient fan selections and, thus, more effi cient
systems while raising the fl oor so more effi cient systems
are not necessarily at a cost disadvantage.
Once awareness of this new era of fan regulation has
risen and industrial-process-equipment manufacturers
have adjusted their approach to product development,
changes to scope and effi ciency levels will be absorbed
more easily.
Reference
1) Jorgensen, R. (Ed.). (1983). Fan engineering: An engineer's
handbook on fans and their applications (8th ed.). Buffalo:
Buffalo Forge.
About the Author
Doug Yamashita (LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fanman
-doug-yamashita-465bbab/) is vice president, OEM sales,
for The New York Blower Co. Prior to joining New York
Blower in 2022, he spent nearly 30 years in the industrialand-commercial-fan
market as executive vice president
of sales and marketing for Acme Engineering & Manufacturing
Corp. and as a sales engineer for Howden Buffalo
and Novenco. He served for 10 years on the Air Movement
and Control Association (AMCA) International board of
directors, including as president (2017-2018) and chairman
(2018-2019).
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