Air/Water compressor
Air/Water compressor
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Sorry if this seems like a stupid question, but no one here at work seems to know. is there a compressor avalible that will compress both air and water?
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RE: Air/Water compressor
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RE: Air/Water compressor
With any significant amount of liquid you will be better off separating the air and water with a knockout drum, separator, and/or a coalescer, depending on conditions, before sending the air to a compressor.
RE: Air/Water compressor
RE: Air/Water compressor
RE: Air/Water compressor
Your last point is really important. Often, the sealing liquid will react badly with the entrained water and form an emulsion that can smoke the compressor. If you have a lot of liquid that you just can't separate, I like centrifuguls or eductors/ejectors better than screws or liquid rings because the later two are positive displacement and it doesn't take much liquid accumulation to do ugly things.
David
RE: Air/Water compressor