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Air Solutions Canada is your one stop shop for all things compressed air. Our factory-trained team supports you throughout your industrial compressed air system's lifecycle, offering expert consultation, installation, maintenance, rental, and emergency support.
Are you experiencing production problems or lost revenue due to system or service failures in your industrial compressed air system? We can help you!
"Everything Compressed Air" is our tagline. Air Solutions Canada offers the turnkey, reliable and efficient approach that you need to ensure your plant runs smoothly.
Industries We Support
We have over 20 years of experience meeting the unique needs of a variety of sectors.
Equipment We Service
We service and repair a wide variety of compressed air systems, including replacement parts, air purification products, filter cleaning and more.
Our Service Area
We supply, rent and service air compressor equipment throughout Southwestern Ontario, including the Golden Horseshoe and most of the GTA.
Energy Saving Through Tank Storage
The Case for Installing Tank Receivers
Although it's not easy to calculate the savings of installing a larger receiver tanks, the logic is straightforward. The main benefit of a receiver tanks is that they consume zero energy and require no maintenance.
Switching From Load to Idle
Kaeser, or any other fixed-speed air compressor from Air Solutions Canada, will usually use its full motor horsepower (and thereby, full kilowatt draws) when it is fully charged and making compressed air. It will signal it to go from load to idle when the machine has reached your system set pressure. When the machine is turned off, its power consumption decreases by 60%.
To demonstrate, let's use a Kaeser CSD-compressor with fixed speed 75 horsepower to show how it works.
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75 horsepower equals 55 kW.
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A Kaeser compressor with 75 horsepower consumes 55 kW at full load. It draws 22 kW at idle.
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The power consumption of the plant operating for 8,000 hour per year is $57 200 (55 kW x 8 000 hours x $0.13 Energy).
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The load hours without a receiver tanks are 20,600.
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The total hours spent without a receiver tank are 31,000.
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This confirms that the power consumed by the loaded motor is down 60% (when the load is turned off for about 32 percent).
It's obvious that increasing the amount of idle time for a compressor will reduce electricity consumption.
Increasing Tank Size
Energy savings can be even higher by increasing the tank's size. Increased idle time can be achieved by increasing the tank size from a 660-gallon container to a 1,060-gallon one (a percentage increase in capacity).
The example below is for a fixed-speed compression unit. While a tank fitted with a variable-speed compressor won't achieve the same level of energy savings, it will still cause an increase in idle time.
Additional Benefits
Additional benefits include the addition of a receiver tank for any compressed air system.
Kaeser compressors automatically start a 4-minute factory-set run-out timer when they are in idle. If there is no demand for compressed air within this time, the compressor stops automatically and energy consumption drops to zero. The compressor should always be timed out. That is why we often say "you cannot have enough storage."
The tank also serves as a buffer and control valve for the compressor. This prevents excessive cycling and premature wear and tear to the machine's valves, which in turn reduces maintenance cost.
The tank slows the air's velocity and creates an eddy current as it passes through it. This reduces the oil/water load on all downstream clean water treatment filters and dryers and further reduces filter maintenance costs.
This is the cost-benefit calculation of increasing or decreasing the size of a tank receiver. Please let us know if there are any questions. We'd love to come to your place and make suggestions to improve your compressed air system.