Stall Detection and Control in Industrial Fans

How do engineers learn from in service failures, and perhaps more importantly, how can they avoid repeating the past mistakes of others? How can engineers apply what they have learnt following an in-service failure to the design of new products and systems that avoid previous design errors? Stall Detection and Control in Industrial Fans answers these questions and more. The editor and authors provide real insight into the reality of what they needed to create and apply new knowledge into the most demanding applications. Touted by many leaders, both domestically and internationally, this book will appeal to: corporate managers accountable for maintaining a technical lead over competitors; senior engineers who are trusted to lead research and development programs; junior engineers who wish to learn what it means to develop and apply new technology; those within the air movement and control community who wish to gain an insight into how new knowledge is created and put to work; those within the wider engineering community who wish to understand how to learn from inservice failures, to make their own response to a failure more effective; and, those within academia who wish to become more effective at not only creating new knowledge, but putting it to work.

About the Author :
Wearing many hats, Geoff Sheard is the Flakt Woods Group Vice President of Fan Technology, a leading global supplier of energy-efficient solutions operating in both the air climate for buildings and air movement for the infrastructure and industry markets. He is a director of Flakt Woods Limited, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Northampton Business School and a Visiting Professor at Sapienza University of Rome Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale. Geoff is also a director of the Air Movement & Control Association (AMCA) and a member of the AMCA Executive Board. He is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Fluid Machinery Group and Chairman of the organizing committee for Fan 2012, an international conference on fan noise, technology and numerical methods. He also leads the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) Fans & Blowers initiative. Geoff has doctorate degrees from Oxford University in turbomachinery aerodynamics and from the University of Northampton in leadership and team development. He also holds a masters degree in business administration from Cranfield University and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Liverpool University. He is a chartered engineer, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers, a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Service Engineers, Geoff has published widely in both technical and management areas. He has published two books, two monographs, over 75 articles, and is a member of the Journal of Management Development editorial advisory board and the Leadership and Organisational Development Journal editorial review board.

Review :
"Like any other technology driven community the air movement and control community is under pressure to improve both its products and the systems into which they are installed. As we seek to improve we must also manage technical risk to avoid in-service failures. On occasions that inservice failure arises, we must learn from it. This unique edited volume of papers provides real insight into how we learn." (Loic Espiet, CEO, Nicotra-Gebhardt-CBI Group, Italy) "At its best, academic research complements the development efforts of industrialists. It identifies underlying physical phenomenon providing insight into the challenges that we must address and overcome. This edited volume of papers illustrates how and why academia and industry can work together to elucidate the root cause of in-service fan failures." (Chunill Hah PhD, Senior Scientist, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA)