As the cost of power escalates, the need for higher supervision levels for air compressors, dryers, and air quality in general has increased dramatically, and the compressor room is at the heart of your factory.
Without compressed air, little production can be achieved. Losing the compressed air supply is the same as losing your electricity or water supply!
Today knowledge is everything. Artic Driers, the sole distributor for SUTO iTEC in Southern Africa assists end users and resellers of compressed air equipment to move to the next level. SUTO iTEC has the most comprehensive range of stationary and portable air monitoring equipment specifically aimed at the compressed air and gas industry.
The Compressor Room – in this area Artic offers;
- Compressed air flow
- Air pressure and velocity
- Specific power consumption also shows kW’s consumed vs m³ of air produced
- Compressed air dew point
- Temperature
- Particle count and Oil vapor carry-over
- Temperatures of compressed air as well as room temperatures or even oil temperatures
- Cooling water flow monitors and temperatures inlet and outlet
All these and more can be fed to an S331 stationary data logger for off-site and on-site monitoring. The SUTO iTEC S331 can accept all these inputs and more! Monitor your compressed air system effectively in real time, as well as providing historical data for previous weeks or even months.
What does this do for you. With comprehensive data, if the dew point varies or power consumption deviates. Or water-cooling water temperature escalates from normal levels. You will be aware of it.
Alarm set points can prevent catastrophic damage to your plant. Dew point set points protect your downstream equipment if a dryer trips or the condensate drain valve malfunctions. The data is visible for you to see before it becomes a real issue in the production area. Oil vapor carryover can be a serious issue for many industries. This can monitored all the time 24/7. Outages created by poor compressed air quality are now avoidable.
Monitoring the differential pressure over filter sets can save you from wasting thousands of Rands of electricity and ensures you the best filtration before element failure occurs. Downstream individual flow monitoring provides benchmark flow performance per production area. This reduces excessive compressed air wastage and even allows you to allocate the cost of the compressed air per unit manufactured.
Acompressed air leaks will always be present, but using the latest Ultrasonic Leak Detectors from SUTO iTEC, leaks are easily found, and wastage is quantified in Rands value plus the quantity of air being wasted.
Cow corrective action plans are easily implemented with measured results.
Knowledge is power, guessing is not acceptable. The initial cost of compressed air monitoring equipment is easily recovered against the savings and reduction in production downtime that you can achieve.
Artic Driers is a family-owned and operated 32-year-old level 2 BEE company, that imports from around the world to fulfill the compressed air treatment needs of the clients. The product range is very broad, so why not give Paul Cockfield a call, or email paul@articdriers.co.za