Applications

Applications

The manufacture of compressors and compressed air equipment is a large and essential industry that provides a true power source for innovative solutions and applications. From the standpoint of applications, compressed air and gas may be divided into power, process, and control.

Power Service Applications – Power service includes those applications in which air is used either to produce motion or to exert a force, or both. Examples are linear actuators, pneumatic tools, clamping devices, or air lifts, and pneumatic conveyors.

Process Service Applications – Process service is defined as any application in which air or other gas enters into a process itself. Examples are combustion, liquefaction and separation of gas mixtures into components, hydrogenation of oils, refrigeration, aeration to support biological processes, and dehydration of foods.

Control Applications – Control applications are those in which air or gas triggers, starts, stops, modulates, or otherwise directs machines or processes. Control applications occur throughout power and process use. Some steady-flow process plants are virtually completely automatic. Detroit-style, batch-type manufacturing may be highly automatic and pneumatic controls have special attributes that make them ideal for many situations. These include control of pneumatic machines or control with explosion-proof requirements.