EXAIR Intelligent Compressed Air Products
Top Picks for Cleaning and Drying
Manufacturing processes often produce instances where blowing off dirt, debris and water is necessary.
How can you accomplish this without wasting compressed air or creating a noise hazard?
Here are EXAIR’s top picks for cleaning and drying. They are engineered specifically to reduce the amount of compressed air you use and to reduce your noise level.
Method 1: Super Air Knife
The Super Air Knife, perfect for wide area blowoff, has a 40:1 air amplification ratio, which means that there are 40 parts of ambient air for every 1 part of compressed air. This ratio creates the most efficient air knife available in the world. The higher the amplification ratio, the lower volume of compressed air required to remove heat from hot parts or processes. The laminar airflow blows off and cleans across the entire length.
Method 2: Super Air Wipe
Super Air Wipes are used to blow-off, cool, clean and dry products. Air is blown in a conical 360° pattern completely around the outside of parts. A Coanda profile is set at a 30° angle to increase the contact area of the blowoff. The Air Wipe can clear pipes after a water bath and even add additional cooling. This allows you to blow off excess fluid back into machining tanks, reducing waste and mess.
Method 3: Safety Air Guns
Safety Air Guns are available with forces ranging from 2 ounces to 23 pounds – so you can select exactly the force you need. They use engineered air nozzles designed to increase performance, decrease compressed air use and reduce noise levels. Extension pipes are available for those hard-to-reach places and Chip Shields are available to increase protection of workers.
Method 4: Air Nozzles
EXAIR’s engineered Air Nozzles and Jets reduce noise levels and air costs. Recently, two open pipes that were cooling the bottom of a molded part were replaced with two Super Air Nozzles. The open pipes were giving inconsistent results when cooling flash on the bottom of parts, causing jams on a trimming machine when the parts remained too warm. The Super Air Nozzles provided consistent cooling easily solved the problem! Available from stock with forces ranging from 2 ounces to 23 pounds.
Method 5: Reversible Drum Vac
EXAIR’s Reversible Drum Vac can replace those gas-powered sump suckers that spew fumes and create environmental issues. The Drum Vac is faster, quieter, smaller, safer and produces no smelly exhaust. The cost of the Drum Vac is less than what would be spent on general maintenance and fuel. The Drum Vac has no moving parts and will operate indefinitely. And, it is only one of the many industrial vacuums EXAIR offers.
Method 6: Ion Air Gun
EXAIR’s Gen4 Ion Air Gun is a rugged, ergonomic static eliminating gun that is a lightweight, effective spot cleaner. It has incredibly fast static decay rates with low air consumption. Another EXAIR static eliminator, the Super Ion Air Knife, can effectively eliminate static and dust, neutralize and clean at distances up to 20 feet.
Method 7: Line Vacs
EXAIR’s Line Vacs are an easy way to convey parts, materials and waste – with no moving parts. Do you need to remove waste or trim? Fill a hopper quickly and easily? EXAIR offers a large selection of Line Vacs in a variety of sizes to fit your application needs. Standard, Threaded, Heavy Duty, Sanitary Flange and Light Duty Line Vacs are available, as well as custom styles.
Method 8: EasySwitch Wet-Dry Vac
EXAIR’s EasySwitch Wet-Dry Vac makes the seamless transition from a dry material vacuum to a liquid vacuum with ease. Need to vacuum solids? Liquids? The EasySwitch allows you to do both. Utilizing minimal compressed air, the EasySwitch is a powerful pneumatic vacuum that is ideal for any application – wet, dry, light and heavy. A standard or HEPA certified filter is available for dry material.