Fan Engineering
Fan Engineering: An Engineer's Handbook on Fans and Their Applications

Edited by Robert Jorgensen.

Eight Edition.

Published by Buffalo Forge Company, 1983.

This is fat paperback of 4.5" by 6.5". It's hard to tell how many pages there are, because the pagination is by numbered sections, but it's a good 1.75" thick.

The book is full of engineering data - coefficients, tables, charts, equations, graphs, etc., all having to do with fans.

The chapters are as follows:

Part I - Fundamentals
1. Properties of air and other gases
2. Fluid flow
3. Transmission and distribution of air
4. Sound
5. Heat transmission
6. Mass transfer process
7. Particles and particle clouds
8. Engineering statistics

Part II - Fans
9. Fan Terminology
10. Centrifugal fans
11. Axial-flow fans
12. Fan laws
13. Fan testing
14. Fan systems
15. Fan control
16. Fan noise
17. Fan mechanics
18. Fan motors and drives
19. Fan selection

Part III - Fan applications
20. Ventilations
21. Winter and summer air conditioning
22. Mechanical draft
23. Local exhaust
24. Conveying
25. Air-cooled heat exchangers
26. Drying and related processes
27. Air blast and other pneumatic devices
28. Handling hot and corrosive gases
29. Air cleaning

Part IV - Appendices
A. Units, dimensions, and dimensionless numbers
B. Nomenclature
C. Conversion factors and equivalents
D. Properties of materials
E. Metal product information
F. Miscellaneous data
G. Selected bibliography
H. Buffalo Forge Company products

Some pages have large charts that unfold from the book.

The amount of information packed into this book is rather amazing, and it's interesting to contemplate how much knowledge goes into the creation of a typical (or not so typical) fan. That said, it's not useful if you're not an engineer or an engineering student.