DISCOVER OUR NEW AMCA 210-16 TEST CHAMBER

As part of our commitment to offer more value to our customers and improve the performance and efficiency of our products, HW Ventilation has recently built and installed a new test chamber in Rescaldina.

The chamber will be used for three main purposes:

• testing of the performance and efficiency of our fans and ventilators
• testing the performance of our customers’ products
• design and development of new efficient products and optimization of existing products

Our new test chamber has been designed in compliance with international standards AMCA 210-16 and ISO 5801-2017. According to AMCA 210-16, our chamber configuration is: Figure 15 – Inlet Chamber Setup – Multiple Nozzles In Chamber.

The chamber is mainly made of reinforced steel sheets. It has a 2500 x 2500 mm square section and it is 12 m long.

Our chamber can be used to measure airflows in the range between 0,1 m³/s and 10 m³/s, and pressures in the range between -1000 Pa and +1000 Pa.

Our test chamber can be utilized for testing the following categories of product:

• axial ventilators with diameters up to 1250 mm and power up to 7,5 kW
• axial impellers with diameters up to 1250 mm and power up to 7,5 kW, using the torque bench

Adding proper additional tools, we can also test:

• centrifugal fans with inlet section area up to 1,2 m² and power up to 7,5 kW
• components and parts of ventilation/suction plants
• components and parts of radiators and engine cooling systems

The setting of the test chamber is done through a LabVIEW-based acquisition and management software, specifically adapted to perform what follows:

• configuration of the nozzles
• setting of the working point, through the control of damper and aux ventilator
• real time display of physical quantities and performance curves acquired by the instruments in the chamber
• generation of accurate test reports