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Monitoring Is Apparently The New Thing To Do

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Over the past month, I have been loosely watching the events revolving around a former government contractor, Edward Snowden.   The contractor leaked classified information about how the NSA monitors the US citizens.   This has of course brought on a large amount of news coverage and lots of questions from the US citizens to the government.  Others have been able to turn it into a laughing matter like Jimmy Kimmel did on his show.   Below is the commercial Jimmy did for the NSA on his show.

So with all the talk about how every little thing you do is monitored, and I am probably going to end up on several lists for keywords in this blog, why not begin your own monitoring campaign.

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EXAIR offers a full line of monitoring devices for your compressed air system, after all it’s the first step in the 6 Steps To Compressed Air Optimization.  The best part of our offering is that you can not only use the EXAIR Digital Flowmeter to monitor your compressed air system, when combined with the Summing remote display and/or the USB Data Logger, you can also collect the data from the meter.

The complete setup will allow you to easily see, and calculate, your cost savings before and after you implement an Intelligent Compressed Air product.

If you have any questions on how EXAIR can help you monitor your compressed air system, give us a call, chat, fax or e-mail.

Brian Farno
Application Engineer
BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF

Holey Leaky Air System Batman! I mean Prof. Penurious!

Published on by Brian Farno1 Comment

Well weekly blog readers, it is now time for poll two of six in our effort to see how many of our readers can benefit from our 6 Steps to Optimizing Your Compressed Air System.   If you noticed the results from last week’s blog, quite a few of our readers could benefit from our Digital Flowmeter and Summing Remote Display to get them on the path to an optimized compressed air system.  Now it’s time to see how many of our blog readers can say they run a tight air system.    So now for the poll.

Step 2 in our process is to find and fix the leaks in your compressed air system.   If you do a quick search on the all mighty Interwebs for “compressed air leaks”, you will find numerous articles on the matter.  This link will take you to an article from the Department of Energy that will help you get an idea of the average cost savings that you would see if you were to fix the leaks in your system.  From simply fixing 10 leaks in one compressed air system a company could save $57,069.  That is a lot of dough, not to mention this was from only 10 leaks in a system.  Every time you have a joint or connection in a system there is a possibility for a leak.   The size of the leak will determine how much money you are losing to it.  The best way to handle the leaks is to find them and permanently eliminate them.
The leak detection can be done in many ways; the method we offer is with the use of our Ultrasonic Leak Detector.  The ULD can detect leaks up to 20’ away and is also accurate even in a noisy industrial environment.   If you fix just one 1/16” diameter or equivalent leak, you will pay for the ULD in a year.  Not to mention the number of other leaks it will allow you to find and repair.  The amount of air you save by fixing the leaks will also be measured easily if, you are using our Digital Flowmeter from the previous blog. 

Once again, it is time for the blog to end.  Don’t forget to chime in on the poll and check back next week for step three in our blog series.
If you would like to discuss any of the information in today’s blog please do not hesitate to contact us.

Brian Farno
Application Engineer
BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
Twitter: EXAIR_BF