What affects the energy consumption of an air compressor?
Air compressor referred to as air compressor, is a device that converts the mechanical energy of the prime mover into gas pressure energy, which is widely used in industrial production. The energy consumption of air compressor is affected by many objective factors:
Isothermal efficiency affects the energy consumption of air compressor. Isothermal efficiency and air compressor energy consumption has a certain relationship, isothermal efficiency increases, the air compressor power consumption is reduced. Therefore, in operation, the compressed gas should be fully cooled at all levels of the cooler to ensure that the air compressor tends to be isothermal compression, improve the isothermal efficiency of the air compressor.
②, the ambient temperature affects the energy consumption of air compressors. Ambient temperature is an objective condition, not much affected by human factors, so it can be regarded as a constant. Need to pay attention to is to maintain the ventilation of the plant, try to reduce the temperature of the machine room, can reduce unnecessary energy consumption.
(iii) Mechanical efficiency affects the energy consumption of air compressor. Mechanical efficiency of the air compressor is mainly affected by the design, manufacture and installation of the links, so when the air compressor is running normally, the parameter will not change much.
④, the inlet pressure affects the energy consumption of the air compressor. Decide the size of the intake pressure is mainly atmospheric pressure and filter resistance, so in the process of use, we should regularly clean up the air filter element, so that the resistance of the filter to stay within the design range. In addition, you can also choose high-efficiency filters, power consumption will also be reduced.
⑤. Exhaust pressure affects the energy consumption of air compressors. For air compressor, lower exhaust pressure will reduce energy consumption. At the same time, lower exhaust pressure will increase the exhaust volume, playing a double role. Therefore, under the premise of meeting the working pressure, optimizing the process to reduce system resistance is an effective way to save energy in air compressors.
(vi) Exhaust gas volume affects the energy consumption of air compressors. Reducing the exhaust volume can effectively reduce power consumption, but after closing the small guide vane, it will also increase the suction resistance of the air compressor, which can not play the role of power saving. Therefore, when there is excess product and load reduction is needed, the guide vane can be closed appropriately, so as to adjust the size of the exhaust volume.
Air compressor energy consumption is affected by the ambient temperature, efficiency, pressure and many other factors, in the use of attention. Also pay attention to regular maintenance of the air compressor, so that it can play a better performance and extend the service life of the air compressor.