Tips and Tricks for Designing A Compressor Room
What makes a compressor room efficient? Planning.
To get the performance you have paid for the compressed air system, your compressor installation is very important and the compressor room must be carefully designed. Take the five tips when planning your compressor room.
• Choose a location with enough space
Position the compressed air equipment in the compressor room allowing space for ease of access for operation and routine service and future overhauls.
• Keep it clean
Always ensure the compressor room is fed with the cleanest, driest and coolest air for cooling the compressed air equipment and for the compressor intake. Also look at the surroundings to avoid any heavy contamination from dust or corrosive chemical vapors from nearby processes.
• Make sure sufficient ventilation in compressor room
Compressors generate heat; never allow the hot exhaust air re-circulate inside the compressor room by using ducting to remove the heat out of the room.
• Avoid condensate
Install the drains correctly with a short length of pipe into a channel or with a tundish to collect the condensate allowing for a visual check that the drains are operating correctly. Never install outlet pipework to the bottom of a header to prevent condensate from entering a compressor on standby.
• Good lighting
ensures easy maintenance and checks at a later date.