COMPRESSED EFFICIENCY IN A SINGLE BOX
08/05/2013 BEKO Technologies Ltd
Compressors are responsible for 10% of all the power consumed in a mature industrial society like the UK and Ireland. Frequently 10% or more of this air will be wasted because of leakage caused by poor maintenance, bad design of air lines, acidic condensate attacking seals and joints just to name a few of the possibilities. Therefore it makes sense to do regular audits on the power consumed, flow, pressure, dew point and leakage as a starting point. Is this commonly done? Matthew Harrison, Regional Sales Manager at BEKO TECHNOLOGIES says, "No this type of extensive measurement is rare but smart companies are realising that you can't know too much about what is happening within your compressed air network. You can avoid problems and be sure that you are operating to an efficiency that is acceptable if you regularly even better have a permanent output of key parameters within the system. Now that the BEKO Data Logger is available it is very easy for me and BEKO TECHNOLGIES colleagues to monitor up to 12 outputs per BDL installed which is plenty for the normal compressed air system. These outputs are not limited to the devices that we market but could for example use pulse outputs for gas metering or PT100/PT1000 or KTY temperature sensors and many others. The BDL has the capability of 12 inputs, but can also be offered with the option o 4 or 8 inputs. What is important is that these inputs can be digital or analogue. Before with the older unit we only had the capability of 2 digital and 2 analogues, so we were not able to offer multiple measuring points.This makes it very easy for BEKO TECHNOLOGIES to give the client a complete picture of his system tailored to the KPIs that are important to him."
Many clients are offered a free audit and in today's economic climate it makes sense to take up these offers doesn't it? Harrison again " Yes to a point the information is worth having but for example if a survey consists of clamping the incoming phases of the compressors then converting that to flow without measuring actual flow then this could be misleading and mask issues that need correcting. I would certainly choose to have that data but then I would still have 11 other options
For further information, please contact:
Beko Technologies Limited, 2 & 3 West Court, Buntsford Park Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire,England, B60 3DX. Tel: 01527 575778. Fax: 01527 575779 E-mail: info.uk@beko.de Website: www.bekotechnologies.com
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