Exhaust fan for compressor room

[Old Gas Nut]

I'm building a 5x6x10 compressor room in my garage so I don't have to listen to it while I'm working. The compressor is a 80 gallon 2 stage Ingersoll Rand. I figure it will put off a good amount of heat, I'm just trying to figure out the best way to remove the heat. I have been thinking about just putting a nice bathroom exhaust fan in there to pull the heat out, but I'm not sure if it will be enough or not. For instance, one particular 150 cfm bathroom exhaust fan says its good up to 150 SF. I know my room is much smaller than that,I just wonder if that's enough to keep it cool in the room or not. Then do I also need some kind of vent to bring cooler air into the room?

 

[Ryf]

best way to quiet it would be route your intake outside, then a major the chunk of noise will be removed. other ways would be a intake silencer (like a exhaust pipe muffler for the intake) it normalizes the harmonic noise to be less annoying. if you already built the room, route the intake outside and line the walls with some foam if you can, this will keep the walls from resonating the noise out.

as long as its vented for an intake near the floor to draw cooler air up from an opposite wall if possible so your drawing across the compressor not just up the wall it doesn't take much air to do the job.

 

[Clik]

I think your pulley has a fan built into it. Use synthetic oil and all you should need is a couple of louvres.

 

[Chaznsc]

I wouldn't use a bathroom fan for ventilation. Not the tool for the job.

 

[wssix99]

I'd use 120V computer fans. They are small, whisper quiet, and very efficient.