Equipment reservation
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Question: In a power station, two air compressors are usually used with one unit reserved. The air is dried using an air dryer. When selecting such a dryer, should its air handling capacity take into account the reserved unit as well, or should another air dryer be installed later? How should this be considered?
It is better to reserve some for maintenance of the cold dryer. At the same time, the one-time investment is also lower.
You mean the previous cold dryer, but the processing capacity of that cold dryer is calculated based on the air volume from 3 air compressors, right?
Considering 2 units, it is not yet known when the additional air compressor will be installed; therefore, there is no need to consider a corresponding refrigerated dryer (or the required processing capacity) for now – we can address that issue once the new compressor is in place.
Our factory is in a similar situation to yours; we ended up installing a heat-free dryer, which is turned on only when all three other dryers are in use