Compressed Air Calculations, Optimization, and Tips

EXAIR uses our blog platform to communicate everything from new product announcements to personal interests to safe and efficient use of compressed air. We have recently passed our 5 year anniversary of posting blogs (hard for us to believe) and I thought it appropriate to share a few of the entries which explain some more of the technical aspects of compressed air.

Here is a good blog explaining EXAIR’s 6 steps to optimization, a useful process for improving your compressed air efficiency:

• 6 Steps to Optimizing your Compressed Air System

One of the Above 6 steps is to provide secondary storage, a receiver tank, to eliminate pressure drops from high use intermittent applications. This blog entry addresses how to size a receiver tank properly:

• Sizing a Receiver Tank

Here are 5 things everyone should know about compressed air, including how to calculate the cost of compressed air:

• 5 Things Everyone Should Know About Compressed Air

These next few entries address a common issue we regularly assist customers with, compressed air plumbing:

• The Importance of Properly Sized Compressed Air Lines
• How to Size Pipe for Your Compressed Air System
• Top 6 Plumbing Mistakes

In a recent blog post we discuss how to improve the efficiency of your point of use applications:

• Improving Point of Use Applications

Thanks for supporting our blog over the past 5 years, we appreciate it. If you need any support with your sustainability or safety initiatives, or with your compressed air applications please contact us.  

Have a great day,
Kirk Edwards
@EXAIR_KE