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Accessories for Your Compressed Air Products

Published on by Al WooffittLeave a comment

Here at EXAIR we are very proud of our Intelligent Compressed Air Products. We have spent a lot of time discussing their many benefits, including their efficiency, the fact that many have no moving parts, little to no maintenance, meeting or exceeding OSHA safety standards for noise or dead end pressure. One thing we don’t talk as much about is the accessories that go along with and complement our products. Several of these accessory items are the reason why our compressed air products can boast about having little to no maintenance, or reduced noise levels. In this blog I want to cover some of these unsung heroes.

From left to right, a few value-added accessories for your Vortex Tube: Hot Muffler, Cold Muffler, Automatic Drain Filter Separator, Oil Removal Filter, and Solenoid Valve/Thermostat Kit.

Some of the most popular accessories we offer are our compressed air Filters and Regulators. We suggest using these with all our products (or even with ones that aren’t ours).

The Filter Separator is designed to remove moisture, dirt, and rust from your compressed air system. The 5-micron filter element ensures that contaminants don’t clog or harm your compressed air equipment.

An Oil Removal Filter (which should always be installed after our Filter Separator) provides even more precise filtration by getting rid of oil and solid particles with a 0.03-micron element.

Our Pressure Regulators let you choose the operating pressure. At EXAIR, we always advise running at the lowest pressure necessary to complete the task. Pressure Regulators help you achieve that, reducing unnecessary air usage and fine-tuning the performance of EXAIR products for your specific application.

We have some accessories designed specifically for certain products. For our Line Vacs, there’s the Line Vac Hose. You can also find Thermostats and Solenoid Valves that work great with our Cabinet Coolers, and if you’re using Vortex Tubes, we suggest checking out our Mufflers.

When it comes to our Air Knives, we offer a variety of fantastic options:

If you’re looking for a simple and dependable way to mount your Air Knife, our Universal Air Knife Mounting System is just what you need.

If your project needs something longer than our stock Air Knives, or if you want to manage different sections of the air flow separately, our Coupling Bracket Kits are ideal.

And if you want to simplify the plumbing for your Air Knife, don’t miss our Air Knife Plumbing Kits. They’re suitable for all Air Knives that are longer than 24 inches.

If you’re looking for plumbing options, we’ve got a range of compressed air hoses and fittings that will simplify things for you.

Our Coiled Hoses work great with our Safety Air Guns, giving you more freedom of movement while you work.

Our Compressed Air Hoses are often used alongside our Industrial Housekeeping products to provide the necessary reach for the drum and dolly.

Finally, if you’re looking for a way to mount or position your Air Nozzles, check out our Magnetic Bases, Stay Set Hoses, and Swivel Fittings that can help create a complete setup.

No matter what your application requires or the product you need, we’ve got a variety of complementary accessory products that will simplify installation and adjustments. If you have any questions about these or any other EXAIR products, don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

Al Wooffitt
Application Engineer

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Take Advantage of the BETE Spray Laboratory

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EXAIR is a leader in engineered compressed air solutions and static elimination, and BETE is renowned for engineered spray nozzle and spraying systems.  Ever since the merger, we have worked closely together to create a unique market appeal.  In this blog, I wish to cover an important department of BETE, the Spray Lab. 

The Spray Lab features a state-of-the-art research laboratory dedicated to focusing on complex challenges to support research and development efforts.  We test, so that you can get accurate values for your process.  BETE excels with high-quality nozzles for various spray applications, providing fit and function for our customers. Using advanced tools such as test stands, computer modeling, and in-house manufacturing capabilities, BETE’s Spray Lab improves confidence in the solutions it offers for your process.

Running the BETE’s Spray Lab, we have experts that can manage every aspect of a spraying system. Working closely with our clients to define their goals and limitations, they conduct physical tests to evaluate critical parameters such as droplet size, spray reach, and spray angle.  BETE also can use advanced computational fluid dynamics software to simulate the behavior of the droplets that would integrate into the process.  It can optimize the performance and find any shortfalls before manufacturing starts.  With the manufacturing facility located adjacent to the lab, the design team works together with the production team to create tailored solutions.  Overall, the Spray Lab offers a wide range of resources, allowing them to explore various types of applications and to evaluate the effectiveness of misting nozzles.

For more information about EXAIR and BETE, you can view our websites at www.EXAIR.com or www.BETE.com .  We would be happy to hear from you. 

John Ball
Application Engineer
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The Power of the BETE HydroClaw®

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Cleaning tanks that contain solids-heavy materials isn’t a simple rinse-and-go task. Whether it’s sediment-laden wastewater, mineral slurries, biomass, grain residues, or thick process byproducts, tanks with large particles demand a cleaning solution that won’t clog, wear out, or lose performance over time.

For these environments, traditional tank cleaning nozzles often struggle. Abrasive solids eat away spray orifices, large particles cause blockages, and performance drops quickly—leading to longer cleaning cycles and more downtime.

This is exactly where the BETE HydroClaw® stands out.

BETE HydroClaw Cleaning the inside of a Tank. Top Right Square is a zoom-in of an active spray pattern. Right Corner is an image of the HydroClaw Nozzle on a yellow background. The bottom of the image is an application photo in an industrial environment.

A Tough Nozzle for Tough Tank Cleaning Jobs

While originally designed for abrasive slurry applications, the BETE HydroClaw’s internal geometry makes it a natural fit for large-particle and solids-heavy tank cleaning.

Instead of forcing material through a tight orifice, the HydroClaw uses an open, deflected-flow pathway that:

  • Reduces particle impact on critical surfaces.
  • Allows larger solids to pass without clogging.
  • Maintains a consistent spray pattern even in dirty fluids.

For tanks with heavy buildup, sediment, or abrasive residue, this makes a massive difference.

Why Choose BETE?

With decades of engineering expertise and a focus on solving complex spraying challenges, BETE continues to be a leader in industrial nozzle technology. The HydroClaw is a perfect example of that innovation—purpose-built for the harshest environments.

If your current nozzles can’t keep up, or if your maintenance team is constantly pulling and replacing failed components, it may be time to upgrade to a solution designed for the real world.

The BETE HydroClaw® isn’t a standard nozzle—it’s a strategic investment in efficiency, uptime, and long-term system reliability. For operations dealing with abrasive, particulate-heavy fluids, it delivers performance where it counts most.

If you’d like to explore whether the BETE HydroClaw® is the right fit for your tank cleaning application, reach out to an EXAIR Application Engineer at techelp@exair.com. They can help review your system, recommend the best approach, and ensure you’re choosing the most efficient and durable solution for your process.

Jordan Shouse, CCASS

Application Engineer

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External Mix Air Atomizing Spray Nozzles For High Flows, High Viscosity

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If you’re just looking to spray water or just about any water-like liquid, you’ve got plenty of options…among them, any EXAIR Atomizing Spray Nozzle. We’d just need to find the one with the flow rate and pattern size & shape you’re looking for. That’s something we can handle in a short phone call, or if you’re a control freak, do-it-yourself-er like me, you can use the spec sheets in our Atomizing Spray Nozzles catalog section.

For applications involving liquids with higher viscosity or suspended solids, we’re going to look at our External Mix Air Atomizing Spray Nozzles. Internal Mix models are limited to liquid viscosity of 300cP or less, and you can’t use Siphon Feds for liquids with higher than 200cP viscosity. While we don’t publish a maximum viscosity for the External Mix models, we have customers who successfully use them with 800cP viscosity liquids. They also have larger internal passages for superior performance with suspended solids.

Two of my favorite examples of applications involving these elements come from the food industry — the snack food sector, specifically. The first one is from a company that makes thin, light crackers called ‘crisps’ that come in different flavors, achieved by coating them with a variety of seasonings. To make the seasonings stick, they needed to spray a light coating of oil onto the surface of the crisps, immediately prior to sprinkling the seasoning onto them, and then baking it in. And they called EXAIR for help in selecting the right Spray Nozzle.

We started our selection of the External Mix line, not only because of the viscosity of the oil (it WAS close to 300cP, which ruled out Siphon Feds, and was close to the upper limit of the Internal Mix models) but also because, with an External Mix, the liquid supply pressure ONLY affects the liquid flow rate, and the air supply pressure ONLY affects the pattern size. So, since they had a VERY specific volume of oil to apply to each crisp, they could set the liquid supply pressure accordingly, and use the air supply pressure to spread it evenly & consistently onto each piece. We know it worked because they sent us a video of it:

Model EF9040SS 14.42 GPH 1/8 NPT No Drip External Mix Narrow Angle Flat Fan Atomizing Spray Nozzle

The other one came from a food production facility as well — this time, from a bakery that wanted to spray oil with a suspension of cheese powder onto dough before baking it. And the reason that the External Mix models are best for high viscosity liquids is the same reason they’re best for liquids with suspended solids. Namely, the liquid doesn’t have to go through a cavity between the Liquid & Air Caps where resistance to flow, either from viscosity or particulate, could cause problems. Since the dough was on a 12″ wide chain conveyor, we specified a Model EB1030SS 14 GPH 1/4 NPT External Mix Wide Angle Flat Fan Pattern Atomizing Spray Nozzle. It’s a fairly continuous run, so they didn’t need (or want) the No-Drip feature to turn the spray on & off. They simply shut the pump and the compressed air off when they’re done making the cheesy dough.

External Mix Atomizing Nozzles are ideal for higher viscosity liquids, and those with suspended solids.

And now…I’m hungry! But seriously, if you need to spray liquid of any kind, EXAIR probably has a Spray Nozzle on the shelf for that…give me a call.

Russ Bowman, CCASS

Application Engineer
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