Destratification is the process of actively moving warm, "stratified" air that is trapped at the ceiling, and redistributing it towards the floor. This process helps maintain consistent temperature more efficiently, and helps reduce the workload of your main HVAC system. For many of us, it's easy to assume the large, commercial-grade ceiling fans (also known as High Volume Low Speed fans) are the best option available for redistributing the maximum amount of air from the ceiling to the floor, and maintaining a consistent, comfortable air temperature. Recent advancements in compact specialized destratification fans have made these large ceiling fans a thing of the past. Here are some of the key features and benefits that make these fans superior to traditional commercial ceiling fans.
Can Be Installed in Grid or Open-Ceiling Applications
One of the biggest drawbacks to a high volume low speed fan is the size. With a minimum of 7 feet in diameter, these ceiling fans do not fit into some medium sized spaces like schools, churches, hospitals, clinics, and gyms. A specialized destratification fan is compact and powerful, and can be installed at the ceiling, or in a grid ceiling configuration. Exceptionally powerful and efficient, these fans can be just as effective in a small community center, as they would be in a 90,000 square foot big box retailer.
Improved Destratification Capabilities
With a small electric motor helping actively gather and redistribute air, destratification fans are more effective at destratifying the air quickly and efficiently. Traditional high volume low speed fans can have a destratisfying effect, but often do not move air quickly enough, and are less effective at eliminating the hot air trapped at the ceiling.
Reduces Hot Spots and Humidity Spots
For applications like grocery stores and big box retailers, this improved air distribution can reduce instances of hot and cold spots in your space, and eliminate excess humidity that can cause sweating in your freezer doors, and slippery condensation on your entryway floor mats. Overall, specialized destratification fans are a smart investment in the efficiency of your HVAC system, and the comfort of your employees and guests.
High energy costs associated with operating a large warehouse, big box retailer, manufacturing plant, and more can make a big impact on your bottom line.
Too many years of inefficient operations can cost you tens of thousands of dollars in wasted energy, without you even noticing.
Thankfully, destratification fans offer energy savings that are significant enough for noticeably lower energy costs on your monthly bill.
Hot Air Rises and Gets Trapped at the Ceiling As most of us learned early-on, heat rises.
In the case of hot air, large open retail and industrial spaces will gather much of the heat at the ceiling, and make it harder to cool a space evenly and efficiently.
Installed at the ceiling, these fans actively work to gather all the hot air that is trapped at the ceiling, and actively redistribute it towards the floor.
People go away the ceiling fan on in the domestic all day, only to locate that the room they come domestic to isn’t any cooler.
So you may be wondering, is there any factor at all to using ceiling fans?
However, there are correct approaches to make use of this appliance, and probably wasteful methods to use it as well.CEILING FANS AND AIR MOVEMENTAs cited above, ceiling fans don’t cool the air around them.
Rather, they pass air around.
Essentially, they create a cool breeze—even cooler when you have the air conditioner strolling as nicely (plus, ceiling fans help with AC efficiency, which we’ll get to below).
But going for walks your ceiling fan all day–specifically, when nobody is home–could be more wasteful than it is helpful.
