Condensate is an unavoidable result of air compression. It is a chemically aggressive fluid that mainly consists of water, but also contains oil and dirt particles.
Oil carryover is unavoidable if you have compressors that use oil in the compression chamber. The lubricant will mix with the condensation and create an oily water that must be properly handled to avoid violating environmental regulations.
Just one litre of used oil can contaminate up to one million litres of fresh water. This is the reason that environmental regulations strictly prohibit the discharge of oily wastes and chemicals, including the condensate drained from a compressed air system.
Compressed air condensate must therefore be treated in accordance with water resource legislation to achieve prescribed safety levels before it can be disposed of in the waste water system. Compressor condensate must therefore be either collected and treated by special processes or treated prior to disposal to the environment. An oil/water separator can be used here to remove the oil from the condensate. Since the condensate is approximately 95% water and 5% oil, water/oil separators have been developed to reduce or eliminate the amount of oil in the condensate.
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PRODUCTS - Adsorption Driers
Compressed air dryers are one of the most important parts of compressed air system.
No matter where you are, in tropics or in desert, atmospheric air contains some water vapour.
When the air or gas cools to the point where it can hold no more water vapour (past the saturation point), it will start to condense into liquid water. This happens at the temperature called the dew point. This dew point is a kind of measure, how much compressed air drying is needed.
Dry air is important. In almost every process, clean and dry compressed air will result in lower operating costs. Impurities such as solid particles, water and oil, which are in the air will be deposited on the inner surfaces of pipes fittings and inner components, causing an increase in pressure drop.
The result is undesired loss of performance efficiency. Types: (High pressure) Heatless desiccant regenerated adsorption dryers, Membrane compressed air dryers, Refrigerant compressed air dryers, Heat regenerated adsorption dryers
OMEGA Air manufacture many variants of adsorption Driers to suit ALL applications ensuring the best dew-point in the most economical method relating the the customer specific system and requirements
A-DRY Series <Click here for sizing table>
Desiccant adsorption dryer A-DRY has been designed to separate water moisture
from compressed air thus reducing the dew point in the system.
A-DRY is a range of products offering our customers a wide array of dried air solutions
with volumetric flow rates ranging from 6 Nm3/h to 200 Nm3/h.
An innovative new design of desiccant adsorption dryer A-DRY, developed with
consideration of our customers, enables fast and reliable installation, use and
servicing. Installation is simple with our ready to use controller while minimising the
number of parts and motions required for assembly and disassembly makes servicing
fast and reliable.
A-DRY BI+BM Series <Click here for sizing table>
A-DRY BI+BM desiccant adsorption dryer has been designed to separate
water moisture from compressed air thus reducing the dew point in the system.
A-DRY BI+BM is a range of products offering our customers a wide array of dried
air solutions with volumetric flow rates ranging from 6 Nm3/h to 200 Nm3/h.
An innovative new design of A-DRY BI+BM adsorption driers, developed with
consideration of our customers, enables fast and reliable installation, use and servicing.
Installation is simple with our ready to use controller while minimising the number of
parts and motions required for assembly and disassembly makes servicing fast and
reliable.
A-DRY TAC Series <Click here for sizing table>
Adsorption compressed air dryers with activated carbon tower A-DRY 6-200 TAC are designed to achieve low pressure dew point as well as to remove oil vapours and odours from the compressed air.
A-DRY is a range of products offering our customers a wide array of dried air solutions with volumetric flow rates ranging from 6 Nm3/h to 200 Nm3/h. An innovative design of A-DRY TAC adsorption driers, developed with consideration of our customers, enables fast and reliable installation, use and servicing. Installation is simple with our ready to use controller while minimising the number of parts and motions required for assembly and disassembly makes servicing fast and reliable.
A-DRY TAC has integrated activated carbon tower, which is developed for separating oil vapours from compressed air (dry type separation).
X DRY Series <Click here for sizing table>
X-DRY 300-1050 modular adsorption dryers are designed for continuous separation of water vapour from compressed air thus reducing dew point.
Operation of dryer requires two columns operated alternately. Adsorption takes place under pressure in first column while second column regenerates with a portion of already dried compressed air at ambient pressure.
A dryer consists of two columns, filled with desiccant beads, controller with LCD display, valves, manometers, support construction and suitable filter housings with the required filter element.
Proven robust design enables efficient and reliable operation, fast installation and simple maintenance.
B DRY Series <Click here for sizing table>
B-DRY adsorption dryers are designed for continuous separation of water vapour from the compressed air thus reducing the pressure dew point.
B-DRY series dryer consists of two columns, filled with desiccant beds, controller with LCD display, valves, manometers, support construction and suitable filter housings with the required filter element. Adsorption takes place under pressure in the first column while the second column regenerates with a portion of already dried compressed air at ambient pressure.
When the first column is saturated to a certain level column switch-over is carried out and the process of adsorption continues in the second column without any drop of pressure at the outlet of the dryer.
Regeneration of saturated desiccant is possible because a small portion of already dry compressed air is decompressed and when expanded it becomes extremely dry.
F DRY Series <Click here for sizing table>
F-DRY adsorption dryers are designed for continuous separation of water vapour from the compressed air thus reducing pressure dew point. F-DRY series dryer consists of two columns, filled with desiccant beds, controller with LCD display, valves, manometers, support construction and suitable filter housings with the required filter element.
Adsorption takes place under pressure in the first column while the second column regenerates with a portion of already dried compressed air at ambient pressure. When the first column is saturated to a certain level column switch-over is carried out and the process of adsorption continues in the second column without any drop of pressure at the outlet of the dryer.
Regeneration of saturated desiccant is possible because a small portion of already dry compressed air is decompressed and when expanded it becomes extremely dry.
COM DRY Series <Click here for sizing table>
COM-Dry dryers have been designed for continuous separation of water vapour from compressed air thus reducing dew point. Drying consist of two steps.
Refrigerant dryer first eliminates large majority of water and reduces dew point down to PDP +3°C.
Further reduction of dew point is carried out by adsorption dryer. Operation of dryer is more simple compared to conventional heat regenerated adsorption dryer while average compressed air losses present only up to 4,6 %.
R-DRY BVA Series <Click here for sizing table>
R-DRY BVA 400-20000 adsorption dryers are designed for continuous separation of water vapour from compressed air thus lowering the dew point.
R-Dry BVA dryers have two columns that operate alternately. Adsorption takes place under pressure in the first column while the second column regenerates (heated ambient air for desorption + ambient air in vacuum mode for cooling).
BVA type of dryer is suitable for applications running at mild ambient conditions. Due to regeneration in vacuum mode BVA type of dryers don’t consume any compressed air for the operation.
A dryer consists of two columns, filled with desiccant beads, a blower, heater, controller with an LCD display, valves, manometers, and a support construction. A proven and robust design enables efficient and reliable operation, fast installation and simple maintenance.
R-DRY BP Series <Click here for sizing table>
R-DRY BP 400-20000 adsorption dryers are designed for continuous separation of water vapour from compressed air thus lowering the dew point. R-Dry BP dryers have two columns that operate alternately.
Adsorption takes place under pressure in the first column while the second column regenerates (heated ambient air for desorption + expanded dry compressed air purge for cooling). BP type of dryer is suitable for applications where low PDP is required at hotter and more humid ambient conditions and where compressed air can be utilised for cooling.
A dryer consists of two columns, filled with desiccant beads, a blower, heater, controller with an LCD display, valves, manometers, and a support construction. A proven and robust design enables efficient and reliable operation, fast installation and simple maintenance
R-DRY BVL Series <Click here for sizing table>
R-DRY BVL 400-10000 adsorption dryers are designed for continuous separation of water vapour from compressed air thus lowering the dew point.
R-Dry BVL dryers have two columns that operate alternately. Adsorption takes place under pressure in the first column while the second column is regenerated (heated ambient air for desorption + cooling with water cooled air in a closed loop). Due to cooling in a closed loop BVL type of dryer is suitable for applications where low PDP is required at hotter and more humid ambient conditions.
Due to cooling with water cooled air in a closed loop BVL type of dryers don’t consume any compressed air for the operation. A dryer consists of two columns, filled with desiccant beads, blower, heater, air-water heat exchanger, controller with an LCD display, valves, manometers, and support construction.
A proven and robust design enables efficient and reliable operation, fast installation and simple maintenance.
