Side channel blowers are the ideal solution for moving large volumes of air at lower pressures or vacuums.
Unlike positive displacement compressors and vacuum pumps, regenerative blowers "regenerate"
air molecules through a non-positive displacement method to create vacuum or pressure.
In the world of air handling equipment,
regenerative blowers are probably the least understood of today's technologies,
but when system parameters fall within the range of a regenerative blower,
it can be the most cost effective method for producing pressure or vacuum.
Most blowers are single stage as air molecules travel around the blower housing one time and then are exhausted.
In addition to single stage units, some blower manufacturers offer two staged blowers.
Double stage regenerative blowers are capable of providing nearly twice the pressure or
vacuum of single stage units. Double staged blowers operate much like single stage units as
the impeller strikes air molecules over and over to create vacuum and pressure.
In a staged blower air molecules will make one revolution around the front side of the impeller.
Instead of being exhausted after the first revolution (like single stage units),
the air flow is channeled to the back side of the impeller through internal porting.
Air molecules will then make another revolution around the back side of the impeller thus
doubling the number of times that the impeller blades strike the air molecules.
After a second revolution around the blower housing, the air is exhausted.
Higher pressures and vacuums are able to be generated with two stage blowers since the impeller blades strike
or "regenerate" air molecules through two revolutions instead of one.