株式会社伊藤鐵工所 ルーツブロワ

ITO

  • Tailored large-size blowers based on precise design and manufacturing technology.

    We provide world-renowned ITO brand products and services with a time-proven business history for over 150 years.

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Mission

Robust products that pursued
technology and performance

Customizing blowers constituting the core of large-scale plants such as exhaust gas/waste disposal facilities or petrochemical complexes, which will achieve high energy efficiency, functions, and quality to contribute to industrial innovation in society.

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Customer deployments

Large number of track record in delivering products to countries
all over the world in addition to Japan domestic.

Since large-size blowers are essential equipment in various facilities and plants,
there is high demand globally. Our products are installed on all continents except Antarctica.

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About Blowers


What is a blower?
 
History of blowers
Features of our blowers

Procedure until delivery



What is a blower?

Blowers have two types of usage; function on the exhaust side with positive pressure or vacuum pump with negative pressure from suction side.

ブロワの用途
Blower usages
They are used in a various application; drainage, aeration of contaminated water, agitation, providing air to fish-breeding tanks, pressurization for chemical industries, pneumatic conveyance for food/medicine/cement/synthetic resin, supplying air to incinerators/burners, gas suction, pumping, and circulation.

真空ポンプの用途
Vacuum pump usages
For waste collection devices in urban areas, pneumatic conveyance devices, dehydration for textile/paper companies, industrial cleaners, and PSA devices.

What is a PSA device?
PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorption) devices are mainly used to separate and collect oxygen or nitrogen from the air through a molecular adsorption tank.



Function principle of Rotary Blower

suction_↓

2-Rotor
discharge→

Two rotors rotate in opposite directions inside the casing. The casing and rotors do not touch each other and keep a small clearance between them while rotating. The gas (volume) enclosed by the casing and rotors is transferred from the suction side to the discharge side.

This method is so-called “volume displacement blowers”, which main features are;
  • Small volume variation caused by pressure change, which enables stable flow of fluid volume.
  • To keep clean gas supply due to no direct contact between main components.

suction↓
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discharge↓

Pressure difference is allowed between suction side and discharge side because it is physically separated by rotors. And this works for either;
  • Blower with positive pressure from discharge side
  • Vacuum pump with negative pressure into suction side


History of blowers

These blowers are called Roots Blowers, taking the name from P.H. Roots, the initial inventor (USA Patent No. 2,369, reissued on October 2, 1866) of the LOBE pumps that became globally popular in the late 19th Century.
While Japan manufactured blowers before the war, they became fully prominent due to the rapid increase in demand after the war. Manufacturers developed production technology, and the industry expanded from being valued at several billion yen to ten billion yen. In Japan, they are sold as “Rotary Blowers, Vacuum Pump (Roots Blower).”

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Blower structure
There is two types LOBE, two blades or three blades per rotor. And each manufacturer adopts individual own blade outline design, but there is not so significant difference.
Blower has very simple structure composed by only two rotors, is easy for use, and has convenient feature of oil-free (Oil does not contact directly to the aero flow area). As the results, blowers have been long used for conveying gas for food, brewing, blower for chambers, agitation, cement, flour, and grain.
Along with the request of higher pressure, multi-stage tandem connection system was devised. In 1948, new technology was developed to obtain high efficiency and vacuum by injecting a suitable amount of water into the casing. It was a revolutionary application as a vacuum pump for suction dehydration from each roll of paper production machines.

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Expand the use for vacuum pump
Vacuum pumps were invented to suck methane gas from inside coal mines to improve the maintenance, health, and environment inside the mines. As they helped prevent explosions inside mines, their usage became even more popular. With the development and increased reliability of mechanical sealing for shafts, these were incorporated to make handling various gases safer and easier. As a result, demand from petrochemical industries also expanded, creating a foundation for today’s gas blowers and vacuum pump markets.

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Applications of blowers
The number of units produced for aeration and gas blowers increased even more as they rapidly developed after administrative standards were set, increasing public and private sector demands. Also, various measures were taken to deal with noise pollution regulations. In particular, the invention of sound deadening boxes and silencers resulted in the development of low-noise blowers, which became even more popular in various fields. As the company's scale expanded, the blowers manufactured in Japan currently range from small blowers with a 20mm bore to large blowers with a 700mm bore. They have been improved to sufficiently meet client needs of anti-acid and corrosion specifications by using various materials, such as cast iron, stainless steel, rubber-clad, and electroless nickel plating. As they are export-compatible, a large quantity of these products in various sizes are exported globally.




Features of our blowers

大型ブロワ
Large blowers
We are capable to create large size models accordingly. The maximum nozzle size is 900mm, which is working as two-stage vacuum pump for PSA oxygen penetrators. Please get in touch with our sales representative for details.



Procedure from inquiry to delivery


STEP1_ヒアリング
STEP 01
Interview
Starting from hearing various requirements such as amount of flow volume, pressure condition, ambient environment, usage purpose and maintenance plan after installation. Then we will provide overview information about selected blower model as our optimal proposal.

STEP2_設計
STEP 02
Design
To proceed detail component definitions for both blower and accessories, and also general arrangement for entire system. In case some special features are needed for some parts, we individually make special designs, make drawings, arrange the manufacturing process, and adjust the specifications of purchased parts.

STEP3_製造1
 STEP3_製造2
STEP 03
Manufacture
Materials to be procured after all details defined, and machined according to the drawings. After surface finishing, those components will be assembled with other purchased parts into a blower, then painted as required together with accessories. Finally, it will be installed on the base frame in combination with electric motor and drive transferring devices.

STEP4_検査1 STEP4_検査2
STEP 04
Inspection
In-process inspections are conducted for performance capability of blowers, dimensional measurement of machined parts and paint thickness. All those approved products can be proceeded to final appearance verification and quantity check to get affixed certification label. Only products that received that certifications are shipped.

STEP5_出荷
STEP 05
Shipment
Just before shipping, we also inspect complete packaging setup, and deliver the products to designated destination. We can also prepare crate packing and/or palletizing according to customers’ request.


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