Hi Greg,
We are running a Sullair ES-8 with a Van Air VR-75 Refrigerated Dryer. The
only time we get water in our air lines is when someone shuts off the dryer
by "accident". We run the compressor 24/7, but work 8/5 there is little or
no demand in the off hours. All of our piping is copper. There are a few
local driers which most of the time never need to be emptied. There local
driers do make a great indicator of what the status of the system drier is
because when I see water I call our facilities guy to confirm the "problem"
We may get some moisture during the hot humid summer weather (located on
Massachusetts coast) but this the exception not the rule.
Regards,
Phil Nutting
Manufacturing Engineer
Kaiser Systems, Inc.
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From: Stephen R. Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:31 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [TN] Compressed Air...
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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