With the global rise in electricity prices, the energy costs of compressed air have increased to as much as 91 percent of the total cost of ownership, and operators need urgently to review the efficiency of their system, says Graham Read, Product Manager Industrial Compressors Europe at CompAir.
In the aerospace and aviation industries, pneumatic systems are typically used to control the flows of fuel and other essential fluids for propulsion, thrust, lubrication, isolation, purge, and other fluid-control applications.
As part of its Zero-Carbon Schools initiative, managing contractor ReEnergise is transforming the carbon footprint of St George’s College in Weybridge, Surrey, installing four Viessmann heat pumps.
Municipal utility company Servicebetrieb ASK, of Kamp-Lintfort in Nordrhein-Westfalen, was experiencing frequent blockages and outages in one of its sewage pumping systems.
Paul Clark – Business Line Manager, CTS Sales at Atlas Copco – explains how health checks and energy audits of compressed air systems can reduce costs, improve environmental performance, and help deliver energy efficiency improvements.