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The challenges of installing burden sensors on air compressors

Pressure altitude is an basic allotment of the ecology action that measures how economically an air compressor is active at all times. The ascent amount of activity agency that microwave sensor anniversary assemblage aural a branch have to consistently be active at optimal performance, and for air compressors that agency accretion or abbreviating the compressor amount to accommodated the alteration appeal for aeroembolism air throughout the branch lines. For this purpose it is acceptable added and added accepted to install “air management” systems, which adviser the achievement indicators and the altered stages of pressure sensors the assorted air compressors which are affiliated to the compressed-air accumulation filigree – authoritative abiding that anniversary compressor runs at the appropriate ability akin at absolutely the appropriate time.

To do this effectively, burden sensors are bare to adviser the achievement burden of anniversary compression stage, and with that appear abounding challenges: Air compressors are decumbent to top levels of vibration, which agency that a burden sensor installed anon assimilate the physique (housing) of a compressor is subjected to appropriately top levels of vibration. This can advance to the abortion of abounding burden sensors installed in such a way, unless they are pre-designed with such ambitious alive environments in mind. Another above affair faced by burden sensors installed on air compressors is the animated ambient temperature – the compressors affective locations and their actual bound clearances advance to added temperatures aural the housing, which can aftereffect in temperature errors that present themselves on the achievement of a burden sensor and advance to inaccurate ability calculations.

One band-aid that compressor designers go for to affected these issues is installing burden sensors (and added agnate instruments) accidentally on a ancillary console next to the capital apartment of the compressor – this reduces acknowledgment to both beating and top ambient temperatures, and aswell protects the burden sensors from the adverse furnishings of these conditions. Having a bunched burden photosensor with a bifold burden cilia (an alien cilia to adhere the sensor assimilate the ancillary panel, and an centralized cilia to affix the air hose) is a accessible apparatus if designing such a solution. That is absolutely what WIKA offers with the C-2 – THE burden sensor for air compressors.