How Air Compressors are Used in Textile Industries

The importance of high-quality compressed air production to the textile industry cannot be overstated. In the Asia-Pacific region alone, textile production is growing at an unprecedented rate and is already reaching the highest CAGR in the global textile market as well as accounting for 50% of technical textile consumption. Textile manufacturing processes require continuous, precision pneumatic, and other power sources in order to meet this demand. BOGE Kompressoren is proud to be a key player in this sector, providing a range of air compressors perfectly suited to the textile industry and its growing needs.

How Compressed Air is Used in Textile Manufacturing

Air compressors are widely used in the textile industry to produce both control air and working air. To achieve this, a consistent and constant flow rate is required to create specific precision pressures for each piece of equipment. Because of the aforementioned textile growth throughout the Asia-Pacifc region, another key requirement for the textile industry is that the air compression involved is produced while requiring minimal maintenance. More maintenance results in longer downtimes, and as a result, a significant loss of production time compounded by growing expenditure.

Compressed air is used during the manufacturing of textiles for multiple applications in the production process. Because compressed air provides an energy efficient and reliable form of power, it is widely used by textile manufacturers for powering equipment and tasks such as:

• Air Jet Weaving
• Wastewater Treatment
• Dying Non-woven Textiles
• Spinning Non-woven Textiles
• Ring, Open, and Air Jet Spinning
• Partially Oriented Yarn Production
• Fully Oriented Yarn Production
• Pneumatic Transport
• Texturising Materials
• Powering Printing Machines
• Automation in manufacturing process machinery

Compressed air, therefore, is an essential component for the competitive and efficient functioning of a textile manufacturing plant. This then leads to the inevitable question of which types of air compressor technologies are best suited to handling all of the above tasks, and which brand you can truly trust.

Essential Oil Free Air

If the only consideration for textile manufacturers was the question of reliability and cost while using compressed air, then any of BOGE's compressors would fit their needs. However, the compressed air used in textile manufacturing comes into contact with produced fabrics. If the compressed air used is contaminated with any substance or contains oil particulates, then this can cause staining and permanent damage to produced items. These darkened grease stains are often impossible to remove, and so any contaminated cloth cannot be sold to customers. Textile manufacturers therefore require clean and dry air, reliably produced, and which is safe contamination of the Fabrics produced

The solution is therefore to use oil free air compressors. Because there is no oil used for compression of air within such compressors, there is little chance that any oil material is going to contaminate the produced air. With oil lubricated air compressors, this danger is possible, therefore BOGE does offers a range of filtration systems to counter this oil contamination in compressed air, to make it technically oil free. Furthermore, any air compressor which produces class 0 air in line with stringent international standards, also significantly reduces the risk of contamination. The resulting air is clean and ready to be used in a variety of textile manufacturing environments.

Further Air Compressor Challenges Facing the Textile Industry

Oil contamination is not the only problem which must be contended with, the textile industry faces other issues surrounding the choice and implementation of their compressors. As textile production ramps up throughout the Asia-Pacific region, so to do the energy demands of that industry. This results in a greater carbon footprint, with more pollution being produced through electrical waste. The expanded use of energy resources leads to higher energy expenditure for textile companies while violating recent and upcoming clean air legislation in a variety of Asia-Pacific countries.

In parallel with this, textile manufacturers are looking for new ways to reduce the costs of producing compressed air along with maximising uptime to meet demand. Air compressor designs which require regular maintenance and result in downtime, are no longer fit for these factory settings. It is also costly for the textile industry to upgrade and/or retrofit the older equipment to meet new standards.

To summarise, the textile industry therefore requires air compressors which:

• Deliver ISO Class 0 oil free, clean air
• Increase energy efficiency, lowering costs
• Reduce carbon footprint
• Lower maintenance times
• Avoid expensive future retrofitting and upgrading to meet developing demands and energy legislation

BOGE is the company to meet all of these demands and more.

BOGE Products for Textile Manufacturing

BOGE offers a range of air compressors perfectly suited for textile manufacturing. Our S-4 Series & S-3 Series offers the workhorse capabilities for the normal operation where oil Injected screw compressors can be used. Available up to 315kW, the S series smaller foot print design is perfect for textile manufacturing where space is an issue. For a more powerful oil-free Screw compressor design, our SO Series compressors produce pressures up to 10 bar (145PSIG) for 45- 315kW of power. We also have the Boge Bluekat range, with integrated catalyser for Class 0 compressed air generation, and including our innovative Focus Control 2.0 for efficiency and precision.

Where lower pressures 2-4 barg pressures are required, BOGE Kompressoren's engineers have developed a new benchmark in oil-free air compression. It is called the LPT 150 and provides a massive 30% reduction in running costs when compared to leading oil-free screw compressors. Including BOGE's latest technological breakthrough, Turbo Compression, the LPT 150 uses magnet motors with high energy density to guarantee best in class efficiency and clean air production.

All of these products require minimal maintenance with no need for oil filter changes. They are also extremely adaptable and can be used even in older factory setups, so no costly overall is necessary.

Our BOGE technicians are waiting to answer any of your queries today, and if you would like to find out more about the innovative and cost saving advances in BOGE technology, please visit our page on Air Compressors for Textile Production.