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Type & Size of Air Compressor You Should Use

Since there are many types and sizes of air compressors, there are some major considerations you will have to think about before buying one. This includes your production requirement, the environment and the intended application. That’s because installing the wrong type of compressor can lead to mechanical failures, energy inefficiency and stopped production. For more on this, take a look at these slides.

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Type & Size of Air Compressor You Should Use

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  1. What Size and Type of Air Compressor Do I Need?

  2. As I visit customers, I’m sometimes amazed that the sites don’t even know that they’ve got a compressor until it has stopped working. Production stops, so they go to look at why it has stopped and, all of a sudden, they remember there is a compressor on site that hasn’t been serviced for quite some time and invariably may even be the wrong type of compressor for what their needs are. Compressors come in all different sizes, all different pressure ranges, all different characteristics and properties. They can be a basic small piston or reciprocating compressors. They can be screw compressors. Screw compressors can be oil-free or they can be oil-flooded. For larger applications, they can be centrifugal compressors, and there’s still a host of other types that are there. At the end of the day, your production requirements, your environment, your application, the pressure you need, the flow you want, will dictate what type of compressor is best for you. Here is an example that, if your business is running and you can’t keep up, the pressure drops and production stops. Well, there are a few things you can do.

  3. First thing is to check your leaks. Stop your leaks. See if anything’s changed that way, but if you put a new piece of equipment on and, all of a sudden, you can’t make pressure, and because you can’t make pressure, your production stops. Then there’s a quick rule of thumb as to how you can check what size of compressor you actually need for that new piece of equipment. Say, for instance, you need 8 bar, and you go to your compressor out the back, and you find it’s only running at 5 bar. Well, simple rule of thumb is if you need 8, take your 8, divide it by 5, and multiply it by kilowatts of the compressor. That’ll tell you what size you actually need for that new piece of equipment that’s change what your demands are. So what’s the pressure you want? Use the rule of thumb again. If it’s 8 bar and your compressor can only give you 5 bar, that’s 8 divided by 5. And then multiply that by the number of kilowatts your compressor is, and that’ll give you a starting point as to the minimum size compressor you need to satisfy the demand of that new piece of plant that you installed.

  4. IN THIS VIDEO: CAPS National Business Development Manager John Pitts shares some tips on how to choose the right compressor size and type for your needs.

  5. Need help choosing the right air compressor? We pride ourselves on having the widest range of precision-engineered industrial compressors in Australia. Contact us today to request a quote for the type of compressor you need.

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