SEETHI SAHIB MEMORIAL POLYTECHNIC

COLLEGE
TIRUR-5

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING
SEMINAR REPORT ON

BLADELESS FAN

SUBMITTED BY:

NITHIN. VP
ROLL NO: 32
REG NO: 12021127

SEETHI SAHIB
COLLEGE

MEMORIAL

POLYTECHNIC

TIRUR-5

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that this is the bona fide record of seminar on
BLADELESS FAN has been presented by NITHIN. VP 6th
semester MECHANICAL ENGINNERING, S.S.M.P.T.C TIRUR
on . In partial fulfillment of requirement for the
award of the Diploma in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. Under
directorate of Technical Education, Kerala state, during the year
2014-2015.
Staff in charge:

Head of section:

External Examiner:

Internal Examiner:

Place: Tirur

Date :

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all I would like to praise the God for blessing me to

complete this Seminar successfully.
I am deeply incepted to Mr. T.K Basheer (Head of
department in Mechanical Engineering: Seethi Sahib Memorial
Polytechnic College, Tirur) for providing me the opportunity to
present the seminar on this topic.
I extended my unexplainable gratitude towards all of my
Teachers & librarians who gave me a lot of information and
supports for this Seminar.
I give my heart full thanks to my friends & Family, Whom
offered me all kind of supports for this.

INTODUCTION
In

October

2009,

James

Dyson's

consumer

electronics company, famous for its line of vacuum

cleaners , introduced a new device to the market called
the Dyson Air Multiplier. The Air Multiplier is a fan with
an unusual characteristic: It doesn't have any visible
blades. It appears to be a circular tube mounted on a
pedestal. The shallow tube is only a few inches deep.
Looking at the device, you wouldn't expect to feel a
breeze coming from the mounted circle. There are no
moving parts in sight. But if the fan is switched on,
you'll feel air blowing through the tube. How does it
work? How can
An open circle push air into a breeze without fan
blades? As you might imagine, there are a few scientific
principles at play here. There's also an electronic
element. While the tube doesn't have any blades inside
it, the pedestal of the fan contains a brushless electric
motor that takes in air and feeds it into the circular
tube. Air flows along the inside of the device until it
reaches a slit inside the tube. This provides the basic

airflow that creates the breeze you'd feel if you stood in

front of the fan. According to Dyson, the breeze
generated by the Air Multiplier is more consistent and
steady than one from a standard fan with blades. Since
there are no rotating blades, the breeze from the fan
doesn't buffet you with short gusts of air.

SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR

The switched reluctance motor (SRM) is a type of a
stepper motor , an electric motor that runs by
reluctance torque. Unlike common DC motor types,
power is delivered to windings in the stator (case)
rather than the rotor. This greatly simplifies mechanical
design as power does not have to be delivered to a
moving part, but it complicates the electrical design as
some sort of switching system needs to be used to
deliver power to the different windings. With modern
electronic devices, precisely timed switching is not a
problem, and the SRM (Switched Reluctance Motor) is a
popular design for

MODERN STEPPER MOTORS

Its main drawback is torque ripple. An alternate use
of the same mechanical design is as a generator when
driven mechanically, and the load is switched to the
coils in sequence to synchronize the current flow with
the rotation. Such generators can be run at much
higher speeds than conventional types as the armature
can
be made as one piece of magnetisable material, a
simple slotted cylinder . In this case use of the
abbreviation SRM is extended to mean Switched
Reluctance

Machine,

although

SRG,

Switched

Reluctance Generator is also used. A topology that is

both motor and generator is useful for starting the
prime mover, as it saves a dedicated starter motor.

OPERATING PRINCIPLE
The SRM has wound field coils as in a DC motor for
the stator windings. The rotor however has no magnets
or coils attached. It is a solid salient-pole rotor (having
projecting magnetic poles) made of soft magnetic
material

(often

laminated-steel).

When

power

is

applied to the stator windings, the rotor's magnetic

reluctance creates a force that attempts to align the
rotor pole with the nearest stator pole. In order to
maintain rotation, an electronic control system switches
on the windings of successive stator poles in sequence
so that the magnetic field of the stator "leads" the rotor
pole, pulling it forward.
Rather than using a troublesome high-maintenance
mechanical commutator to switch the winding current
as in traditional motors, the switched-reluctance motor
uses an electronic position sensor to determine the
angle of the rotor shaft and solid state electronics to
switch the stator windings, which also offers the
opportunity for dynamic control of pulse timing and
shaping. This
differs from the apparently similar induction motor
which also has windings that are energised in a rotating
phased sequence, in that the magentization of the
rotor is static (a salient pole that is made 'North'
remains so as the motor rotates) while an induction
motor has slip, and rotates at slightly less
than synchronous speed. This absence of slip makes it
possible to know the rotor position exactly, and the
motor can be stepped arbitrarily slowly.

BERNOULLI'S PRINCIPLE
In fluid dynamics, Bernoulli's principle states
that for an inviscid flow of a no conducting fluid, an
increase in the speed of the fluid occurs simultaneously
with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's
potential energy. The principle is named after Daniel
Bernoulli.
Bernoulli's principle can be applied to various types
of fluid flow, resulting in what is loosely denoted as
Bernoulli's equation. In fact, there are different
forms of the Bernoulli equation for different types of
flow. The simple form of Bernoulli's principle is valid for
incompressible flows.
Bernoulli's principle can be derived from the
principle of conservation of energy. This states that, in
a steady flow, the sum of all forms of energy in a fluid
along a streamline is the same at all points on that
streamline. This requires that the sum of kinetic
energy, potential energy and internal energy remains
constant. Thus an increase in the speed of the fluid
implying an increase in both its dynamic pressure and

kinetic energy occurs with a simultaneous decrease in

its

static

pressure,

potential

energy

and

internal

energy. If the fluid is flowing out of a reservoir, the sum

of all forms of energy is the same on all streamlines
because in a reservoir the energy per unit volume is
the same everywhere.
Bernoulli's principle can also be derived directly
from Newton's 2nd law. If a small volume of fluid is
flowing horizontally from a region of high pressure to a
region of low pressure, then there is more pressure
behind than in front. This gives a net force on the
volume, accelerating it along the streamline
Fluid particles are subject only to pressure and
their own weight. If a fluid is flowing horizontally and
along a section of a streamline, where the speed
increases it can only be because the fluid on that
section has moved from a region of higher pressure to
a region of lower pressure; and if its speed decreases,
it can only be because it has moved from a region of
lower

pressure

to

region

of

higher

pressure.

Consequently, within a fluid flowing horizontally, the

highest speed occurs where the pressure is lowest, and
the lowest speed occurs where the pressure is highest.