A compressor’s check valves perform an essential function that’s vital to the operation of a compressed air system. Located between the compressor and the air receiver tank or main header, a check valve is designed to prevent air from bleeding out of the tank or header and back into the inlet line when a compressor… Read more »
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A Brief Explanation of Centrifugal Compressor Valves
The valves in a centrifugal compressor are responsible for regulating air intake and the bypass air. This regulates the air discharged and also works to prevent surge. Within a compressor, you can typically find several different types of valves that each serve a unique function. Learn more about a few of the most common compressor… Read more »
An Introduction to the Industrial Internet of Things
The revolutionary technology that has come to define the Information Age can allow us to do much more than just surf the web and check our emails. Over the course of the past few decades, the Internet has had a similarly transformative effect on industrial infrastructures as well. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a… Read more »
Understanding the Importance of Pressure Dew Point Monitoring
Compressed air systems are utilized in many different processes in a variety of industries. Dew point monitoring is often essential with compressed air systems. This is what you need to know about the importance of monitoring dew point. The dew point is the temperature at which condensation will form. This term is familiar to most… Read more »
Compressor KPIs: What Are They and How Can They Be Used?
If you own or operate an industrial operation that relies on compressed air systems, then you know exactly how important it is for these systems to run as efficiently as possible. Inefficient compressed air systems can cost companies thousands of dollars every year and take a toll on equipment over time. Therefore, it’s important for… Read more »
Understanding Air System Artificial Demand
Companies that rely on compressed air systems are constantly looking for ways to make them run more efficiently. Many of these companies end up spending more money than they need to on an annual basis simply because their existing air systems are inefficient and wasting air. One of the many reasons that this can happen… Read more »
Safety Concerns with Compressed Air
Compressed air is something that’s often utilized in industrial, commercial and agricultural workplaces. It has a lot of practical applications, and it is so useful that it is often labeled the fifth utility, alongside other utilities like water, electricity and natural gas in terms of importance to an industrial facility. Compressed air, however, can be… Read more »
Case Controls: A History of Successes
Case Controls has been helping companies design and build world-class control solutions for all of their industrial compressed air systems for more than 30 years now. While the cutting-edge and innovative solutions that we have created have played a big role in our success over the years, we couldn’t possibly be as successful as we… Read more »
New Master Controls Help Paper Company Save $560K
Like many other companies out there, a paper company in Eastover, North Carolina, hit a point recently where they felt as though their plant wasn’t as efficient as it should be. They were using two 800HP Joy centrifugal compressors with obsolete Quad III controllers and three Atlas Copco fixed speed rotary screw compressors with obsolete… Read more »
Coffee Processor Perks Up Savings with New PLC System
Until recently, a major coffee processor was operating a plant that utilized a very inefficient system. The plant relied on a 350 Centac centrifugal compressor, a 500 Joy centrifugal compressor, two 500 HP Atlas Copco rotary screw compressors, and two 800HP Atlas Copco rotary screw compressors – all of which provided plenty of power, but… Read more »