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News Release from: Condensate Systems | Subject: Compressor/dryer package - Sepura at WPS
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 January 2008
Compressor/dryer package is low noise
To comply with environmental regulations and maintain a clean, safe warehouse floor, a warehouse selected a low noise, rotary screw compressor/dryer package.
Keen to comply with environmental regulations and maintain a clean, safe warehouse floor, West Midlands, UK, company, WPS Automotive, abandoned conventional compressor condensate filtering Instead, the company chose a Sepura system, which is extremely compact, inexpensive and easily meets the regulations for disposal of compressor condensate
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Based at Aldridge, WPS Automotive are global suppliers of stainless steel tubular components and related products for the automotive industry.
The company approached Sepura distributor Aircare Compressor Services of Cannock for advice regarding a suitable system to provide clean, dry compressed air for equipment in a new warehouse facility.
Aircare sales engineers recommended an Adicomp low noise, rotary screw compressor/dryer package.
The plan was to locate the compressor within the warehouse, therefore there could be no possibility of oily condensate contaminating the floor area, where there could be a hazard to staff.
* High quality condensate cleaner - also as an environmentally-conscious company, and aware of the severe penalties should the condensate find its way into a water course, or onto land, WPS insisted that a high quality condensate cleaner was installed.
Aircare had installed numerous types of Oil/water separators to compressor installations in the past, but few had given the reliable, trouble free operation that customers had expected.
Not only that but the messy weir-type separators were disliked by maintenance engineers and distrusted because of the bacterial risks associated with the collection tanks.
The installer immediately recommended Condensate Systems' Sepura separator.
At a fraction of the cost of conventional equipment, the unit supplied has a very small footprint (just 180mm diameter in a single 0.5m column) and consistently achieves around 5ppm of oil at the condensate outlet.
The statutory UK limit for disposal to a foul drain is 20ppm.
Sepura uses a novel polypropylene filter, which also depressurises the air before removing the majority of oil content.
The final stage of filtration is by a carbon filter.
Since installing the condensate cleaner, with a 'money-back' performance warranty, Aircare and WPS have been extremely satisfied to leave the problems associated with the old generation of oil/water separators firmly in the past.
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