This technical guide focuses on air compressors. It reviews the general issues involved with optimising a compressed air system and identifies some of the key steps businesses can take to create some easily-won savings.
AW Fraser foundry has installed a high efficiency air compressor that will reduce their electricity usage by about $30,000 a year. The compressor paid for itself in just over a year.
The new VSD compressor produces only as much air as needed, so that the motors do not work any harder than they have to.