Industrial Compressed Air Systems
Learn about compressed air, system layout and sizing, compressed air quality, and optimization
Learn about compressed air
Compressed Air Basics
Learn about pressure, volume and capacity, pressure drop and free air delivery. More importantly, learn how they work together in your compressed air system.
Learn the basic rule of thumbs and standard practices, calculations, and more on my compressed air basics pages.
Compressed Air Quality​
Compressed air is dirty - it contains all the contaminations of ambient air, but in concentrated form. We need to upgrade the quality of the compressed air - we do that by removing water, oil and dust. How clean we need to make the air depends on the application. Learn all about it on my compressed air quality pages.
System Optimization
A single compressor can easily waste $10k per year in energy costs.Yes 'waste'. Not 'use'. Luckily, we can take some easy steps to reduce the waste.
It means you can run this same compressor and create the same amount of compressed air, while using less energy. On a medium size compressed air system, the yearly energy savings can add up to $10.000 to $30.000 per year!
Learn how on my compressed air system optimization pages.
Articles
Winter is coming…
The cold weather bring a particular set of problems to compressed air systems – and these problems start even before temperatures reach negative values (I’m
Cheap filters vs OEM filters
Your compressed air filters need replacement… what do you choose? Those expensive OEM filters or a cheaper copy of them? Nowadays, for almost any brand
Water in Compressed Air Calculations
Water in Compressed Air Calculations To continue on the topic of ‘water in your compressed air’ (the other two articles are here and here), let’s
Air Dryers (and hidden costs of drying air)
Last article talked about water in your compressed air – a problem many of us will face in their compressed air system. So, what is
Water in your compressed air system
Most of you guys reading this have experienced it at one point: water in your compressed air system. In fact, it’s one of the most
Your Dumb Air Compressor
In my last article, I quickly mentioned some of the energy wastes in compressed air systems. One of those was “inefficient compressed air production”? What
