Blow-Off Air in Plastic Injection Molding
Over the last several decades, Air Power USA has reviewed many various types of plastic injection molding operations throughout the U.S.
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System Assessments
As the Best Practices Magazines celebrate their twentieth anniversary, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the remarkable system efficiency gains achieved since our first issue. We also wanted to give subscribers a peek at what the next decades might bring. To do this, we asked a hand-selected list of original equipment manufacturers, independent compressed air system sales and service companies, manufacturing plants and independent system auditors to share their thoughts, highlighting the changes they’ve seen over the past 20 years, then predicting what the next 20 years will bring.
Chrysler Finds Vacuum Savings of $400,000 per Plant
A recent comparative vacuum technology study performed by Dr. Kingman Yee, as part of a Chrysler Summer Intern Professors Program, found that air consumption could be reduced by 98% when equipping a robot’s end-of-arm tooling with COAXÆ technology and a Vacustat™ check valve.
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PIAB Optimizes Food Processing Vacuum Systems
Blower & Vacuum Best Practices Magazine spoke with Mr. Ed McGovern (VP Sales & Business Development) of PIAB North America.
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Blowers Save Energy at Aluminum Mill
Relatively few people realize that for a variety of industrial manufacturing applications, from air knife drying to simple blow-off nozzles, the use of high pressure compressed air that bleeds into the atmosphere represents a significant waste of energy.
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Blow-off Air
A metal producer, in the Midwest, spends an estimated $2.4 million annually on electricity to
Blower Controls
The ideal blower control matches the blower airflow to the process demand. The process demand, in
Conveying
In open end pipe line suspension flow, or dilute phase pneumatic conveying, proper particle
Piping/Pressure Loss
Pressure/Vacuum
In this article, we’ll discuss some of the uses for receiver tanks for positive pressure systems
Vacuum Controls
In the world of semiconductor manufacturing, it’s an understatement to say peak productivity and
