Monday 14 January 2019

Modern Air Compressors Are Becoming Versatile in Various Industrial and Domestic Applications

New York City, 14 Jan 2019: Air compressors are versatile tools that have a vast number of industrial and domestic applications. Air compressors can be used for tasks as simple as powering a nail gun or for truly complex functions such as injection moulding and loom jet weaving. Let us briefly explore the development of the air compressor and examine how this useful device has been impacted by today’s technology. The Global Air Compressor Market was evaluated to be USD 31 billion in 2017 and is projected to grow at 4.5% CAGR from 2017 to 2026 as per a recent report published by Polaris Market Research. All the top players in this market are announcing new and improved products to accommodate the growing demands in this sector. Developing regions are becoming the new market for the big companies to increase their customer base and reinforce market dominance.



Compressor technology has existed for nearly 400 years and from the time they were invented, there have been remarkable innovations in improving their efficiency and power. Compressors have gone from air billows to the complex compressor systems used in large-scale industry today.

The first artificial compressor was the billows, consisting of a flexible pouch which emitted a pressurised burst of air used in smelting. In the late 16th century, an engineer created a blasting machine that later became the basis for the modern compressor.

A modern air compressor is a machine that changes power using a gasoline engine, electric motor or diesel engine into potential energy that is preserved in the form of pressurized air. Through one of several processes, an air compressor pushes air into a storage tank at high pressure. Once the air reaches a predetermined pressure limit, the compressor turns itself off. The compressed air is then kept in the tank until it is needed. The potential energy stored within the compressed air can be used for numerous purposes which uses the kinetic energy of the air as the tank loses pressure. Once the tank pressure reaches its lower limit, the air compressor reactivates to depressurize the tank.

Air compressors have many applications such as supplying clean air at high pressure to fill gas cylinders, supplying clean air at a moderate pressure to drive pneumatic tools such as high-pressure air tanks, and jackhammers.  At moderate pressure, the air from a compressor can also be used to fill tyres and to provide air for submerged surface supplied divers. In the last few years, there have been several new technologies that have led to a significant increase in air compressor efficiency. These improvements are a result of enhancements to the standard air compressor design.

One of the most significant technologies is the VSD or variable speed drive compressor. Compressors fitted with a variable speed drive can result in 35% energy savings as compared to the typical load/unload compressor. Combined with other technologies such as closed oil-circuit cooling and vertically aligned design, air compressor efficiency has reached to 50 percent; an achievement that cannot be overlooked.

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