Hi All,

I've become involved with our facility compressed air. We seem (in my
opinion) to have an excessive amount of moisture in our air lines. There is
an air dryer installed downstream from the compressor, but the water traps
that are installed at various locations on the production floor need to be
drained regularly (sometimes daily).

My take on this is that the air drier that we have either isn't functioning
properly, or that it doesn't have the capacity that we need for the demand of
air that we require.

I'm being told by our "Plant Engineer" that there isn't anything out there
that will eliminate the moisture from our compressed air lines, he says we're
always going to have water in our compressed air lines...I beg to differ with
his opinion.

Would any of you please post something that says that it is possible to have
clean, dry, compressed air on your production floor? This is air that is
supplied for our automation, and everything else.....

I know that this is possible, I've worked at too many other companies where
one of the last things I had to worry about was the quality of our compressed
air, but I have a new challenge now...I see water in the traps throughout the
production floor every single day that need to be drained daily (and other
things that I don't want to get into), but yet I'm told our air drier is
functioning properly, and that it just doesn't get any better....that it's
just physics.

I'm about to go crazy...please help me.

-Steve Gregory-

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