Whether you are a train passenger or a shipper of interstate cargo, you both expect smooth transportation to your destination. This is possible because of the availability of clean compressed air, which powers most of the vital functions that run the industry. High-quality, compressed air is critical to smooth and safe operations. The machinery in this industry should be able to withstand harsh weather conditions, high humidity, dust, debris, and vibration. It should be designed for long service life in the locomotive industry.
Compressed air is essential for railway applications, such as:
- Brake system: A vast majority of the world’s trains are equipped with braking systems that use compressed air to push blocks onto the wheels. This makes sure that the train can halt when needed.
- Pneumatic door operation: Train doors must work smoothly, quietly, safely, and reliably. Often, the doors function in extreme conditions and must endure constant vibration and frequent shocks. Compressed air makes sure that the doors can open and close properly.
- Vehicle suspension: Railway vehicle suspension provides proper running behavior and safety. Compressed air ensures the train ride is smooth for passengers and cargo.
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From plastics, products, to power, air compressors are the new tool needed to collect some of today’s most invaluable, naturally occurring commodities on Earth.
The rise of the global population continues to heighten the demand for oil- and gas-based products. Even with the increased development in alternative energy sources, modern society still needs oil and gas to function on a daily basis. In order to keep up with this demand, air compressors help ensure appropriate pressure levels in the equipment that runs the operation. From transportation to pneumatic tools, the oil and gas industry utilize compressed air to complete many challenging aspects of collecting Earth’s great natural resources.
Here are some other common applications that require a compressed air system.
- Petroleum Refining: Of the petroleum gas collected, 95% of it is processed through the compressor before transporting to a pipeline. The process can boost the gas’ pressure to promote catalytic reactions, which can accelerate the refining process.
- Petrochemical Synthesis: Low-density petrochemicals like methanol, ammonia, urea, ethylene, and ethylene glycol require specific air and gas pressurization in the manufacturing process.
- Pipeline transportation: Moving gas and oil through pipelines requires compressors to maintain or boost gas flow into the pipeline system. Since reservoir pressure and normal flow decrease gradually over time, compressors are used to keep gas flowing.
- Gas injection: Air compressors can be used to inject gas into oil layers to increase and maintain reservoir pressures, which help facilitate the recovery of crude oil. Air injection is used for transporting liquids, tank pressurization, cooling, plastic moldings, and the synthesis of various petrochemicals.
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Air compressors assist in several steps of cement production to provide good quality materials in an efficient manner.
The cement-making process is able to function with the help of pneumatic systems. Air compressors help ensure reliable operations within the cement industry. Processes such as blending, delivering, loading, unloading, and transporting are accomplished quickly and effectively because of compressed air machinery.
Air compressors are used in many different avenues during cement-making production, as seen with a few examples below:
- Ash handling system: Compressed air powers the machinery responsible for collecting, storing, and loading out various types of ash residue. This is to make sure the ash can be managed and disposed of safely.
- Tool powering: Cement mixers and grinders are powered using compressed air. Without air compressors, the tools wouldn’t function as quickly or efficiently.
- Cleaning: Pneumatic systems help power the machines that remove water, dust, oil, and solid contaminants from compressed air.
- Conveying: Air compressor systems help with the transportation of cement powder from storage to production. This is important because cement powder tends to clump if not managed properly, so the material relies on pneumatic machinery to stay in motion.
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Digging for natural resources while providing safety and reliability to employees.
The mining business is a global industry that focuses on extracting useful and valuable resources below the planet’s surface. The process of mining can stretch for miles underground, which means that proper safety equipment is a requirement to ensure financial and worker safety. The usage of air compressor systems can provide longevity and reliability, so it is essential to find the best quality machinery to fit those requirements.
Here are some examples of how air compressors assist in the process of mining:
- Hoists: Machines that use air compressors to lift equipment, large rocks, and personnel in and out of the tunnels that are created underneath the Earth’s surface.
- Pneumatic tools: Compressed air is used to power the drilling, sawing, and other mining tools that are used underground.
- Material handling: Materials that come from mining are better managed with the help of air compressors. This means that with the usage of these pneumatic systems, materials can be conveyed in a more efficient way.
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Pneumatic machinery with reliability and consistency are important factors to consider when supporting the increasing demands in the pharmaceutical industry.
The pharmaceutical industry plays an important role in the well-being of millions of patients. This industry relies on compressed air to make bottles and medication. The medicine made must follow a precise formula, all while operating in an environment with no germs, bacteria, or contaminating oils. Since the industry is always expanding, regulation and efficiency are major factors that need to be considered when thinking about the proper machinery to match the ever-growing demand.
Pharmacies are experiencing an increased demand for compressed air. Here are just some of the benefits:
- Manufacturing of Medical Pills and Capsules: The industry uses compressed air to measure and mix ingredients, harden and shape the pills and capsules, and give the medicine an outer gel covering.
- Medical Formulas: Compressed air is used to accurately measure ingredients for making medicine. This is essential to production because it eliminates the potential for germs.
- Bottlings: Specialized pneumatic systems are used to mold medicine containers to specific sizes, shapes, and colors. This is vital to the pharmaceutical industry because sizes, shapes, and colors play a significant role in identifying medicines. Using compressed air also allows the packaging of pills, capsules, and liquid medicines to be completed in a contamination-free environment.
- Cartons: In the assembly lines, air compressors bring a high level of consistency and reliability. The pneumatic machinery is responsible for the cutting, folding, printing, and packaging of products.
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The manufacturing of plastic supports several different industries, such as aerospace, construction, electronics, packaging, and transportation. According to the Plastics Industry Trade Association, the plastics industry is the third-largest in the United States. Given how large the industry is, it requires consistent and reliable equipment for constant manufacturing, while also having careful and delicate operations to ensure high-quality products, but also consistent power to constantly be manufacturing. Given these requirements, air compressors are the standard for this industry.
There are many processes that require air compressors to fulfill the integrity of the plastic industry.
- Tool powering: Pneumatic tools along the assembly line that help construct the products are powered by air compressors.
- Clamping: During the assembly process, there are machines that use compressed air to hold products in place. For example, bottles may need to be held securely in place to have caps screwed on. This process would take much longer without pneumatic systems.
- Controls and actuator: Controls refer to the transportation of products from station to station. Assembly lines are able to move with efficiency and speed due to the use of air compressors.
- Mold pressing powering: Compressed air helps with the process of melting liquid plastic into molding cavities- where the plastic dries and hardens into its required shape.
- Injection molding: The detailed grooves, threads, sockets, and cavities often found on plastic products are created using a pneumatic system. Without air compressors, these complex shapes would take hours to make by hand.
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Striking a balance between complying with food safety codes and providing a safe product to the consumer, all while reducing and improving efficiencies.
The usage of air compressors to package food and bottle beverages is important to the overall quality and sanitation of the products. With so much potential for contamination, it’s important to have clean pneumatic systems throughout the packaging process. Using clean pressurized air in the food and beverage industry produces quality products that meet FDA regulations and safety standards.
- Dehydration: Compressed air is used by tools that dehydrate food and vegetable products in order to eliminate water- which could lead to mold and bacteria. This process is most common for foods that have a longer shelf life, such as dried fruit.
- Bottling: Bottling refers to the process of packaging beverages, which involves preparing, filling, sealing, and labeling. Compressors are used to seal, label, and stamp the bottles.
- Controls and actuators: Air compressors power the conveyor belts which transfer the various products throughout the factory. From empty bottles to different types of food, it’s beneficial to have reliable compressed air to handle transportation in production that ensures efficiency and maximizes quality.
- Spraying coatings: Spray coating is used to guarantee the extended lifespan of the food and beverage equipment. Compressed air is used in this process during production.
- Cleaning: Pneumatic tools spray and dry food products so they are clean and at a marketable standard for grocery stores.
- Vacuum packing: Vacuum devices seal certain packages to ensure no air is trapped within the package. This maximizes the shelf life of items such as packaged cheese, processed meats, and many other products.
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With hundreds of various applications, compressed air is essential to healthcare facilities in order to ensure a safe environment for individuals of all health backgrounds.
Clean, high-quality machinery is vital to the medical subsections that make up the industry. Not only does it benefit the staff who works there, but the procedures that are powered by compressed air can provide safe and healthy treatment to the patients. Therefore, it is essential to provide equipment that can meet the high standards of the industry.
Compressed air practices in the medical industry are vast and have many different applications. Here are a few examples:
- Medical and Dental Instruments: Many hospital and dentistry tools are powered or cleaned by pneumatic systems. An example of this is with surgical procedures. Instruments used for drilling, puncturing, or dissecting all rely on compressed air.
- Monitors: Compressed air can be found in medical devices that monitor vital signs to keep track of a patient’s well-being in the form of blood pressure, body temperature, heart rate, and respiration rate. Using air compressors makes the tracking process more accurate while eliminating any potential for error.
- Respirators: Artificial respirators are powered by air compressors. Respirators are used to supply air for patients who may be undergoing surgery or have more serious conditions. More than that, compressed air works with the air filtration system inside of hospitals to provide clean, dry, and pure air. In order to fulfill these requirements, it’s important for the industry to invest in high-quality pneumatic machinery to ensure sanitary air for everyone.
- Maintenance: Compressed air is used to power equipment that aid in the repair, replacement, and upkeep of hospitals and hospital supplies. This is essential because it keeps hospitals clean while ensuring that equipment remains of the highest possible quality.
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Woodworking surrounds our everyday activities from the house we live in, to the desk we work at, all the way to the bed we sleep in at night.
The development of wood products has evolved into modern uses such as plywood, wood containers, wood flooring, and wooden frames that are part of our daily lives. The production of all these would be more difficult without the involvement of air compressors. In the woodworking industry, compressed air is essential to power the machinery and tools that allow the pneumatic system to run consistently and efficiently. In order to maintain the machines, it’s important to use dependable, high-pressure air to move heavy loads and operate spark-free.
Air compressors are integral to the functions within the woodworking industry, here are some specific examples to look at:
- Sawing: Air compressors power the saw blades in factories and push wood through the machine. This process helps ease the labor-intensive task of shaping and crafting timber.
- Hoisting: The woodworking industry utilizes the power of compressed air to lift heavy pieces of wood. This improves the rate of construction and transportation of products.
- Clamping: Devices use pressurized air to hold materials in place during the production process.
- Pressure treatment: Compressed air helps with the treatment of the wood to ensure the best quality. This process is done through the removal of moisture from lumber in order to preserve the wood and prevent rotting, this especially applies to any wood that might be used for construction in harsher weather conditions.
- Controls and actuators: Compressors help with the transportation of equipment and products around the factory, assisting workers with the labor of having to move heavy components.
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To stay competitive in the marketplace, industrial manufacturers are being asked to produce more with fewer resources.
Compressed air plays an integral part in our daily lives than one would think. Pneumatic systems work by generating flows of pressurized air that power everything from pumping sets, material handling, primary processing, along with maintaining and repairing equipment and machinery. Since compressed air handles many of the routine processes in factory production, it is referred to as the 4th utility in industrial operations.
There are several functions air compressors play in manufacturing, such as:
- Clamping: Devices that use compressed air to hold products in place during the assembly process.
- Stamping: Compressors drive the molding and painting tools that place marks on thousands of products daily. This process can apply to be the production of everyday appliances. For example, during the manufacturing process of refrigerators, air compressors are used to stamp sheet metal that forms the doors.
- Tool powering and cleaning: Pressurized air powers all the pneumatic tools that assemble the parts of the product, as well as power the cleaning tools that power wash and blow-dry various surfaces.
- Controls: Compressors are responsible for the movement of the assembly lines that transfer products around the factory.
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With the automotive industry needing skilled technicians to assemble and produce all the necessary components to make automobiles run, factories and shops need to optimize their compressed air systems to maximize the bottom line.
Did you know that the car you drive was constructed with the help of compressed air? Practically every process of the auto industry, from engine construction to vehicle assembly, painting, and tool cleaning comes from the usage of compressed air. Producing and servicing these vehicles would lack efficiency and speed without these systems.
The processes of vehicle construction would be impossible to complete without air compressors:
- Tool powering: Compressed air powers the pneumatic tools used in the assembly lines. With the assistance of robots, compressed air aids workers in building the body of the car.
- Controls and actuators: Pneumatic tools lift and transport the various components from the assembly lines and move them throughout the factory.
- Stamping: A process of molding materials to fit the requirements of the product. Air compressors are used to stamp and cut the rough outline or shape of the product.
- Forming: Another method of molding material to create critical vehicle components. Pneumatic systems press outlines into the sheet metal to form shapes and features such as door panels or trunks.
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