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Sunday, June 7. 2020
Why Condensate Drains Are Essential for Air System Efficiency
If only life were as simple as installing an air compressor and switching it on to achieve your goals. Unfortunately, every Compressed Air system is only as good as its weakest link. If you don't back up a quality, energy efficient air compressor with a great condensate drains to avoid air leakages and pressure losses, and then your entire system’s energy efficiency will fail.
This is catastrophic for all manufactures and other sensitive industries such as medicine, food, and pharmaceutical production.
Let's take a quick look at why you need a great condensate drain to keep your system running cleanly and safely.
What is a Condensate Drain?
Whenever air is present, so is condensate. Air naturally contains particles of water and other fluids. When that air encounters temperature and/or pressure differences, those particles coalesce into droplets of fluid.
If you are using an air compressor, you will produce more of this condensate inside the system. When the air particles are pushed closer together, this creates droplets of water as the air cools down, which then gather on equipment and, in some cases, can even enter into the air distribution system in the factory.
A condensate drain is a piece of equipment that removes this fluid automatically from equipment and the compressed air system. Most high quality condensate designs involve a storage chamber or reservoir which, when filled up, activates a drainage channel, disposing of the condensate without any air pressure loss to the overall system.
These drainage systems are used in tandem with:
BOGE's condensate drains are designed from the ground up to be compatible with all of our air compressors and other accessories.
Why You Need a Condensate Drain
Condensate drains provide three essential functions:
The BOGE Compact Condensate Drain
BOGE Singapore is proud to offer the cutting-edge condensate drain models developed by the engineers at BOGE Kompressoren. Operated via a reliable electronic controller, our condensate drains automate the drainage process so that air compression continues unimpeded and without any costly stops for maintenance.
Alongside this, BOGE condensate drains are highly compact, making then ideal for almost any environment where space is a concern. With a robust aluminum housing, our condensate drains are built to last, and are especially manufactured for use in any climate, hot or cold.
Key features of the Compact Condensate Drain, include:
Putting Efficiency and Safety at the Heart of Manufacturing
At BOGE, we pride ourselves in creating leading air compressor technologies to save our customers money, with no compromises when it comes to safety and efficiency. The BOGE CCD CCD 10 and CCD 100 are perfect examples of this philosophy.
If you would like to learn more about our condensate drains, our experts are standing by to answer any of your queries today.