How Does a “Systems Approach”
Keep Your Factory Running Smoothly?

Optimizing your compressed air system’s performance requires a look at the individual components and how they all work together as a whole. This “systems approach” analyzes both the supply and demand side of your system and how they interact, thus ensuring a constant, steady system pressure and uninterrupted workflow.

Here’s How It Works Using the AirMetrix^SM Program:

• We establish current conditions and operating parameters; we baseline the inefficiencies
• Then determine present and future process production needs
• We gather and analyze operating data and develop load duty cycles
• Then assess alternative system designs and improvements

• We take into account all sub-systems when determining the most technically and economically sound options for implementation
• We assess the economic impact of operations and energy consumption
• Then continually monitor and optimize the system
• To operate and maintain the system for peak performance.

Click the movie link above for a nine minute video covering the amazing AirMetrix^SM program.

INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM

ANALYZING NEEDS

Waste Not, Want Not

A typical system leak rate for a poorly maintained plant is 20 percent of total compressed air production capacity. Where as a proactive leak detection and repair program can reduce this waste to less than 10 percent of compressor output.

Source: Compressed Air Challenge Source Book

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info on leaks:

The Compressed Air Challenge Source Book details these leak issues:

Countless Opportunities for Pressure Drop

From receiver tank to point-of-use the air pressure level is vulnerable to any obstructions or roughness it comes across along the way causing “pressure drops”. Leaking hoses, tubes, disconnects, filters, regulators and lubricators (FRLs) on the demand side are all suspect. The list continues. On the supply side, air/lubricant separators, aftercoolers, moisture separators, dryers and filters can cause pressure drops as well.

The Magic Number

A properly designed system should have a pressure loss of much less than 10 of the compressor’s discharge pressure, measured from the receiver tank output to the point-of-use.

Sullair Has the Solutions

For applications using significant amounts of compressed air, we recommend that equipment be specified to operate at lower pressure levels. What you spend on components, such as larger air cylinders, you can recoup in energy savings. Find out more about our solutions for controlling system pressure.

Compressed Air System Controls

Air Control is Crucial

A critical determinant of overall system energy efficiency is matching the compressed air supply with system demand. Control is essential to optimize compressor use and to meet system demands without waste.

Reduce Money Loss

Implement an effective control strategy. Run all units full-load, except one for trimming. Shut off unneeded compressors and delay adding additional compressors until necessary. We are the best at doing just that.

The One and Only

We are the only compressed air systems provider that can accommodate every modern compressor control strategy:

• Start/Stop
• Load/Unload
• Modulating Controls
• Dual-Control/
  Auto-Dual
• Variable Displacement
• Variable Speed
• Multiple Machine Sequencing

See What the CAC Has to Say

The Compressed Air Challenge® (CAC) is a national collaboration that was created to assist industrial facilities in achieving greater reliability, improved quality control, and lower operating costs for their compressed air systems. The CAC encourages facilities to take a systems approach to optimizing compressed air operation.

Read the CAC guidelines on selecting a compressed air system provider.

Download the complete CAC Sourcebook.