Air Compressor for New Gauntlet III

[Printitonup]

What is a wet receiver and dry receiver?

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[screenprintguy]

Very cool setup, no need for a tank with the rotary you are set with those 2 tanks!

I'm thinking the future install will be the chiller AFTER the integrated chiller on the rotary screw compressor after the Champion 7.5hp rotary, kinda like your setup.  This inline setup makes a lot of sense, I'm not sure how bad / not possible it is to send the air the wrong way through the chiller?

That is if it's off since not needed - just used to go to a tank behind it.

Thanks,  yeah luckily we met this guy through our local M&R Tech out of Tampa, he does a lot of super big print shops and automotive centers. You can see all kinds of valves, bypasses ect behind the chiller, a couple of filters and such, very clean, cold air system. Like you said, with that compressor, there is no reason for storage tanks, but since we already had them, it made sense to hook them in for emergency back up and extra air storage. It's amazing how fast that Boge unit will fill the system, it actually runs more in idle cycle than pumping air lol. Very nice units built to run non stop. There is a tire place near us that does industrial tire stuff, heavy equipment, big rigs ect. They have the same set up, 10 years, not a problem.

[ebscreen]

What is a wet receiver and dry receiver?

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Storage tanks essentially.

When air comes out of a compressor it's warm/hot. Warm air can hold more moisture.
Ideally you let that air cool to ambient (wet receiver) before going through the chiller. Not doing so
will make your chiller work harder/less efficient. In fact you want to put your inlet to the wet receiver up high
and the outlet lower as the air will stratify in the tank and you can draw off the cooler air.

It's amazing the things you learn putting together a textile printing facility.

[Printitonup]

What is a wet receiver and dry receiver?

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Storage tanks essentially.

When air comes out of a compressor it's warm/hot. Warm air can hold more moisture.
Ideally you let that air cool to ambient (wet receiver) before going through the chiller. Not doing so
will make your chiller work harder/less efficient. In fact you want to put your inlet to the wet receiver up high
and the outlet lower as the air will stratify in the tank and you can draw off the cooler air.

It's amazing the things you learn putting together a textile printing facility.

I have seen diagrams in the past where people put up a zigzag pipe run to help trap moisture after the compressor. Would you do this before the "wet receiver"?

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[screenprintguy]

we have two coalescent filters, one before the chiller, one after the chiller, by the time the air goes through the two tanks and get's to the chiller, it's actually cool to the touch, the boge unit actually creates pretty cool air before it's even chilled. It's amazing how much moisture is capture in the two 80 gallon tanks though, so I would always recommend a tank, or two, it never hurts and will allow your unit to run less. Not so much a worry on the unit, but a 20hp 3 phase compressor does use a lot of juice lol. What alot of people don't realize with air compressors is that they actually send some oil/particulate through the lines over time, heated oils become acidic, the coalescent filters capture that and keep the lines clean and in turn keep any of that crap from getting into your gear over time.

[ebscreen]

I have seen diagrams in the past where people put up a zigzag pipe run to help trap moisture after the compressor. Would you do this before the "wet receiver"?

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Probably not necessary with a wet receiver, and I would assume you would want the water OUT of the system, IE draining from the bottom
of the tank.