Factory Cooling Air Filter Solutions
Millions of dollars and thousands of man hours are
spent annually on industrial cooling equipment downtime, repair,
and maintenance. Failure to provide effective air intake
protection to building and other equipment fans, motors, condensing
units and coils adds up to a costly loss of productivity in safe
and efficient system operations. Maintenance
engineers today are finding that protective fins and louvers on
equipment air inlets do not offer adequate protection to keep
cooling systems running cleanly and efficiently. The need to
hand brush equipment fins clean of debris, flush with water or
cleaning solutions, and to make frequent filter change outs occurs
all too often. Debris continuously drawn into the air intake
insulates the coils, reduces the necessary airflow, increases run
times, compressor pressure and energy costs. These changes in
system performance increase maintenance expenses and decrease the
life expectancy of the equipment. In addition, ventilation
components are often located in constrained spaces or in awkward
locations such as remote job sites. This makes periodic
maintenance or emergency component failure repairs difficult and
unusually costly. Reducing the buildup of debris with the use
of air intake filters is one way to decrease system
vulnerability.
Case Studies
- Automated Packaging Plant
A 200 ton York chiller, located at the industrial facility of Automated Packaging Systems Incorporated, had an extreme example of unsuccessful air intake filtration. The $165,000 chiller was installed to handle their 250,000 sq. ft. facility, where extrusion of plastic sheeting and tubing for consumer packaging takes place, plus full color printing operations. Unfortunately the facility backs up to a busy set of railroad tracks that showers them with train soot, dirt and dust and an access road that is heavily traveled by dump trucks and heavy machinery on their way to the nearby road paving company. Maintenance on the York chiller was too time consuming chore.
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