That’s right, just like your local cable or satellite TV provider, EXAIR offers On-Demand content that can be streamed and used for training, education, help with cost justification, or improve awareness around compressed air costs and safety.
The best part about this content is that you don’t have to pay for it, simply register on our website (where your information is not shared) and go to the Webinars section of our Knowledge Base. Then gain access to the library of five webinars that have all been broadcast around compressed air safety, efficiency, and optimization.
EXAIR.com – Webinars On-Deman
The current On-Demand offering is listed below:
Intelligent Compressed Air Solutions for OSHA Compliance
Intelligent Solutions for Electrical Enclosure Cooling
Optimize Your Compressed Air System in 6 Simple Steps
Simple Steps for Big Savings
Understanding Static Electricity
The most recent webinar we created is currently only On-Demand for registered attendees and will soon be added to the Knowledge Base library. If you did not get to see it live, the content was extremely helpful for anyone that works within a facility that uses compressed air. Use This Not That – 4 Common Ways To Save Compressed Air In Your Plant, keep an eye out for the release date in our On-Demand section.
If you would like to discuss any of the webinar topics further, please feel free to reach out to an Application Engineer.
If you have a stock portfolio, or even a retirement account, you’ve likely heard the term “return on investment.” It basically tells you how hard your money is working for you, and, the higher, the better.
The term is also used to determine the financial benefits associated with the use of more efficient products than you’re using right now:
The cost of operating industrial pumps, air compressors, and a variety of industrial rotating equipment, can be greatly reduced by using variable frequency drive systems that sense the demand and change the motor’s speed (and hence power consumption) accordingly. These systems are not cheap, but the reduction in operating costs is often quite noticeable.
At home, installing energy efficient windows (spoiler alert: your builder probably used the cheapest ones he could find…mine sure did) or upgrading appliances & HVAC can cost a pretty penny, but you’ll also see your electric bill go down.
EXAIR Corporation has a worldwide reputation for providing highly efficient compressed air products for industry. Our Engineering Department has a company-wide reputation for being data fanatics…which is key to allowing us to provide our customers with ample information to make the best choices to optimize your use of your compressed air.
It’s not hard at all to calculate your potential savings from the use of an engineered compressed air product, assuming you know how much air your current device is using. If not, we can tell you if you can send it in for Efficiency Lab testing (free and fast; call me to find out more.) Here’s an example for a VERY typical situation: replacing an open copper tube blow off with an EXAIR Super Air Nozzle:
A 1/4″ copper tube uses 33 SCFM @80psig
A Model 1100 Super Air Nozzle uses 14 SCFM @80psig
33 SCFM X 60 min/hour X 8 hours/day X 5 days/week X 52 weeks/year = 4,118,400 SCF
14 SCFM X 60 min/hour X 8 hours/day X 5 days/week X 52 weeks/year = 1,747,200 SCF
4,118,400 – 1,747,200 = 2,371,200 Standard Cubic Feet of compressed air savings
If you know your facility’s cost of compressed air generation, you can calculate the monetary savings. If not, we can get a good estimate via a thumbrule used by the U.S. Department of Energy that says it typically costs $0.25 to generate 1,000 SCF of compressed air:
In 2019, the cost of a Model 1100 Zinc Aluminum Super Air Nozzle is $41.00. Daily savings (not counting weekends) is:
$592.80 ÷ 260 days (5 days/week X 52 weeks/year) = $2.28 daily savings
Meaning the payoff time for the $41.00 investment in the Model 1100 is:
$41.00 ÷ $2.28 = 17.9 days
Or…just over three weeks. Now that I’ve shown you the math, I’d like to introduce you to the EXAIR Cost Savings Calculator. Just enter the data, and it’ll check your math (because I know you’re going to do the math anyway, just like I would.) It even does the ROI for you too.
Engineered solutions (like EXAIR Intelligent Compressed Air Products) are the efficient, quiet, and safe choice. Does the one on the right look familiar? It’s literally the example I used for the above calculations.
If you’d like to find out more about how – and how fast – EXAIR Intelligent Compressed Air Products can pay off for you, give me a call.
Russ Bowman
Application Engineer
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Our E-Vac Vacuum Generators are probably most commonly used in pick-and-place applications, in conjunction with our Vacuum Cups.
From a lightweight manual operation to an automated system with large or heavy objects, the EXAIR E-Vac Vacuum Generators can solve the application.
The Adjustable E-Vacs, however, have a unique feature – a relatively large throat diameter – that makes them well suited for suctioning up liquids. And I recently had the pleasure of helping a caller with just such an application. They make machinery for the automotive industry, and in one particular operation, coolant gets left behind in ‘pockets’ of a particularly unwieldy piece. They can drain most of it at the machine, but what gets left behind in these pockets makes a real mess as it goes to the next fabrication point, and, although it’s a small amount in each pocket, it adds up to a finite amount of wasted coolant. It’s not practical to use an electric shop vacuum, but an operator could easily use a handheld device to suck up these little puddles.
Enter the Adjustable E-Vac…with the wide throat diameter I mentioned above and compact design, they were able to install a short suction hose (via a threaded push-in connector) to the vacuum port, and a little longer discharge hose to the exhaust port, and they have a quick and easy, portable, maneuverable coolant transfer system. Here’s a short video I made in the Demo Room, once upon a time, showing how it works:
Saving air. Saving coolant. Saving money and time, one compressed air application at a time. If you have one you’d like to discuss, give me a call.
Russ Bowman
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EXAIR Corporation
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On our Website we have a comprehensive database of applications we have worked on with our products. These are pretty easy to find, Johns Blog will walk you through the process on how to access these applications. While John covered Compressed Air Use in the Construction Industry, I will be covering Compressed Air Use in Food and Beverage Industry.
Application Database
EXAIR products are very commonly used in the food and beverage industry, from blowing water off cans before labeling, to conveying food products to hoppers for processing. See three examples from our application data base;
Super Air Knife in meat processingEXAIR Line Vac used in almond packaging processSuper Air Knife clean excess flour off belt
Use our Application Assistance Worksheet to submit information about your application. When you submit this information, we will respond with our recommendation for the EXAIR product best suited for the application. Please complete the Application Assistance Worksheet and click submit or print the completed .pdf file and fax it to us at (513) 671-3363. For immediate help, call our Application Engineering Department at 1 800 903-9247.
