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Video Blog: Features and Positioning of EXAIR’s Digital Sound Level Meter

Published on by Lee EvansLeave a comment

This video explains a few of the features on the EXAIR Digital Sound Level Meter. It also illustrates proper positioning of the meter when taking sound level readings. This sound level meter is an important tool to quantify noise exposure of employees and identifying the sources of noise.

Lee Evans
Application Engineer
LeeEvans@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_LE

Finding the Right Atomizing Spray Nozzle

Published on by Neal RakerLeave a comment

atomizing nozzle

It seems that our Atomizing Spray Nozzles are becoming more and more popular to our customers and distributors overseas. Many times customers have applications that require a liquid be applied to a target surface in as efficient and sparing manner possible. At first glance, the EXAIR Atomizing Nozzle product line might look daunting to the un-initiated. However, if you break the application down into five simple questions, chances are you will be able to find the right nozzle that suits your need.

What are those five questions?

  1. What spray pattern do you want to produce? EXAIR offers Narrow angle round, wide angle round, flat fan, deflected flat fan, and 360° hollow circular spray flow patterns. Which one you pick depends on a variety of factors.
  2. What size area would you like to cover with the spray coming from the EXAIR Atomizing Nozzles? Sometimes it may be necessary to divide the area of a material coating process up over multiple nozzles.
  3. Is your liquid pressurized by either a pump or pressure-pot to get it to feed to the nozzle? If so what is the liquid pressure? EXAIR manufactures nozzles for pressurized applications as well as for applications where it is desirable or necessary to suck the fluid up into the nozzle with our siphon feed type atomizing nozzles.
  4. What is the viscosity of the fluid that you want to apply in the application? What we are concerned about here is the thickness of the fluid to be applied to make sure the nozzle will work well with that material. If the viscosity is under 300 Centipoise, an internal mix type nozzle works well. If it is over 300 Centipoise, then the more independently controlled, external mix type nozzles will be better to use.
  5. How much liquid do you want to apply to your target area in an hour’s time? Notice we want to know what the flow rate would be on an hour basis. For example gallons per hour or liters per hour. If the application rate is going to be given in gallons or liters per minute, these flow rates would be too high to be able to use an EXAIR Atomizing Nozzle appropriately.

With your answers to these five simple questions, an Application Engineer can help to recommend the right Atomizing Nozzle for your application. Give us a call or write to us about your spraying application today. We will be glad to help you sort through the data to come up with the right recommendation for you.

Neal Raker, Application Engineer
nealraker@exair.com

Video Blog: How To Clean EXAIR Atomizing Spray Nozzles

Published on by Russ BowmanLeave a comment

New Video Blog!

Here is a thorough explanation and visual steps for cleaning our Atomizing Spray Nozzles. Some of the applications EXAIR atomizing nozzles solve include coating, quenching, cooling, cleaning, humidifying and dust suppression applications. They are made from 303SS to provide corrosion resistance and durability. We offer internal, external and siphon fed nozzles and have patent pending No-Drip models in all three styles. These nozzles can help conserve expensive solutions or coatings because they have fully adjustable air and liquid flow rates.

Russ Bowman
Application Engineer
EXAIR Corporation
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Compressed Air Calculations, Optimization, and Tips

Published on by Kirk EdwardsLeave a comment

EXAIR uses our blog platform to communicate everything from new product announcements to personal interests to safe and efficient use of compressed air. We have recently passed our 5 year anniversary of posting blogs (hard for us to believe) and I thought it appropriate to share a few of the entries which explain some more of the technical aspects of compressed air.

Here is a good blog explaining EXAIR’s 6 steps to optimization, a useful process for improving your compressed air efficiency:


One of the Above 6 steps is to provide secondary storage, a receiver tank, to eliminate pressure drops from high use intermittent applications. This blog entry addresses how to size a receiver tank properly:

Here are 5 things everyone should know about compressed air, including how to calculate the cost of compressed air:

These next few entries address a common issue we regularly assist customers with, compressed air plumbing:

In a recent blog post we discuss how to improve the efficiency of your point of use applications:

Thanks for supporting our blog over the past 5 years, we appreciate it. If you need any support with your sustainability or safety initiatives, or with your compressed air applications please contact us.  

Have a great day,
Kirk Edwards
@EXAIR_KE