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News Release from: Condensate Systems | Subject: Sepura
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 January 2008
Warehouse solves compressor condensate
problem
Keen to comply with environmental regulations and maintain a clean, safe warehouse floor, WPS Automotive chose to abandon conventional compressor condensate filtering in favour of a new method
The Sepura system they installed is extremely compact, inexpensive and easily meets the regulations for disposal of compressor condensate Based at Aldridge in the West Midlands, WPS Automotive are global suppliers of stainless steel tubular components and related products for the automotive industry
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 20 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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They 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.
As a trusted supplier for over 20 years, Aircare sales engineers were pleased to respond with 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.
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 the new 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 is particularly novel in that it uses a unique polypropylene filter, which also de-pressurises 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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