Here is a video showing how to convert a Super Air Knife to a Super Ion Air Knife which creates an air knife capable of eliminating static within your process or on your material. It also addresses some reasons why you may want to make this conversion.
Lee Evans
Application Engineer
leeevans@exair.com
@EXAIR_LE
Camping season begins (for me, anyway) this weekend. Our Cub Scout Pack Spring Campout is this Friday night. This is a mere warmup act for our 3rd and 4th Grade boys, who will then be going to Webelos Outdoor Weekend, at Dan Beard Council’s Camp Friedlander, the following weekend. My best friend Andrew and I will be camping with our sons next month, for our seventh annual Father’s Day weekend.
I would describe my camping ideology as “moderate.” I’m a tent-camper who laughs at people with RV’s equipped with air conditioning and satellite dishes. I do, however, generally stick to State Park campgrounds, and I’m not ashamed of paying a buck or two extra to get a site with an electrical outlet (yes, for my air mattress pump) that’s close to the shower house.
As deep as my disdain for refrigerant-based air conditioning at the campground may be, I must admit that I find it difficult to sleep if it’s too hot. This used to mean I didn’t really like to camp between the Fourth of July and Labor Day, but, a couple of years ago, I happened upon a solution that didn’t involve buying a Winnebago: Turns out, if you fill a cooler full of ice, open the top and blow a fan across it, you can achieve a fair degree of cooling inside the relatively small confines of a tent. So, for a couple of weeks before any mid-to-late-summer campout, I recycle some milk jugs, fill them with water and freeze them. Then, I put them in my “spare” cooler, load up a small box fan (another reason I prefer sites with electric hookup), and I’ve got an air conditioned tent.
Now, I’m not knocking refrigerant-base A/C…I’ve got it at the house, and it’s AWESOME. There are situations, though, where other methods prevail, and I’m not just talking about tent camping.
Electrical enclosures that contain sensitive electronic devices often require a means of cooling those devices. With lower heat loads in mild environments, a vent fan may be all that you need. Higher heat loads will need more cooling than you can get from a flow of ambient air, though. Refrigerant panel coolers are certainly an option, but installation and maintenance can be costly, and they’re prone to failure in dirty industrial environments when dust & dirt can clog the filter.
Conversely, EXAIR Cabinet Cooler Systems offer the following benefits:
*Easy to install: They mount in minutes through an electrical knockout, and are powered solely by compressed air.
*Extremely dependable: There are no moving parts, and, when supplied with clean air (from the Automatic Drain Filter Separator that’s included), will run indefinitely, maintenance free. If high ambient temperatures are a concern, we offer High Temperature units, good in areas up to 200F (93C).
*Clean, cool, and dry: Even if your enclosure is located in an aggressive environment like a chemical plant or foundry, a properly installed EXAIR Cabinet Cooler System will ensure that the only thing the internals of your cabinet are exposed to is clean, cool, dry air.
*Efficient and practical: When equipped with Thermostat Control, they’ll conserve your compressed air supply by only running when necessary to maintain a factory preset temperature of 95F (35C). The thermostat is easy to reset, if you desire a different temperature.
*Prevents contamination: While in operation, an EXAIR Cabinet Cooler will maintain a slight, 1-2 psig, pressure inside the enclosure. We also offer a Non-Hazardous Purge option for our Thermostat Controlled units, which will pass 1 SCFM through the cooler when the solenoid valve is closed.
If you have an electrical enclosure that needs easy, efficient, dependable cooling, let us know – we can help. You can also send us a request for sizing help directly from the Cabinet Cooler Sizing Guide on our website…with a few key pieces of data, we can accurately and quickly determine the correct model for your application.
Stay cool,
Russ Bowman
Application Engineer
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Founded as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1880 in response to numerous steam boiler pressure vessel failures, ASME is now a multidisciplinary and global organization. ASME is one of the oldest standards developing organizations in the world, producing approximately 600 standards covering many technical areas, such as boiler components, elevators, measurement of fluid flow in closed conduits, cranes, hand tools, fasteners, and machine tools.
ASME has developed some information about compressed air, in ASME EA4 they divide a compressed air system into 3 sub-systems; Supply, Transmission, and Demand.
All three subsystems can be dealt with individually in order to produce efficiency gains within your own system. EXAIR is vital when focusing upon the DEMAND sub-system, specifically point of use. ASME defines the point of use as “where compressed air energy is converted to mechanical work or accomplishes a production related task.”
Why is EXAIR vital? Because EXAIR manufactures some of the most efficient point of use compressed air blow off products in the world. Too many production processes use open pipes, crimped nipples, drilled holes and other home-made contraptions to convert compressed air energy to mechanical work – these solutions are simply as inefficient, loud and potentially dangerous as it gets.
EXAIR’s engineered products focus on and improve the three features any home-made solution fails to completely address; air consumption efficiency, noise level safety , and outlet pressure safety. This family of blow off products includes our Super Air Knives, Super Air Amplifiers and Air Nozzles to mention a few.
The DEMAND sub-system of your compressed air system can provide some of the largest quantifiable improvement in your compressed air system. Don’t ignore those home-made solutions, let EXAIR assist you with retrofitting your current point of use applications and you will begin to see, and hear quick improvements.
Kirk Edwards
Application Engineer
kirkedwards@exair.com
Have you ever seen a product that can do more than just one thing? Â Take for instance this can of Spray-On Duct Tape that I have, not only does it say it can seal a leak but it can be used in the home, office, or your car and even more. Â Something like this can be used in quite a few instances. Â Other products try to say they can be used in many applications but lack the adaptability to fit well in the applications.
This is not the case many of EXAIR products. Â Let’s take for example the EXAIR 2″ Super Air Nozzle. Â This unit is offered in two materials, zinc aluminum or stainless steel. Â We then offer multiple shims that can be interchanged with each other so you can go from trying to blow water off a plastic cup without moving the plastic cup to trying to blow metal bolts off a conveyor line. Â We also can fit the nozzle to a swivel fitting for easy adjustment, or a Stay Set Hose for extended reach adaptability that will hold its location.
The nozzle can even be attached to two different styles of Safety Air Guns with dozens of different extensions and with or without Chip Shields.
This one single nozzle is capable of well over one hundred configurations.
That to me is a truly adjustable and versatile product.
If you have any questions about how versatile any of products are of if we can cover multiple applications for you with one product feel free to give us a call, tweet, email, or chat request.
Brian Farno
Application Engineer
BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF
