Construction of pneumatic piping systems and things note

Compressed air product by air compressor will be supplied to equipments and machines uses through pipes

Gas pipelines play a key role in the transportation of compressed air. Therefore, installing air compressor piping systems to save investment cost while ensuring work efficiency is one of the top users' concerns today

When design and installing air pipelines, users must pay attention to many factors such as: pipe lengh, pipe diameter, number of bend position and joints...to prevent compressed air pressure from being reduce during transport. Here are some details on this issue, hoping to be helpful to you

DESIGN, INSTALLATION  OF GAS PIPELINE SYSTEM ACCORDING TO COMPRESSED AIR FLOW

A suitable pneumatic pipe needs to have a diameter to ensure that air can flow easily. This air compressor gas pipeline system must not to be too small or too large beacause if it is too small, it will reduce the presure of the gas, causing energy costs to ensure work efficiency. If the pipe line system is too large, it will waste invesment money and make installation difficult.

Therefore, if you want to choose to buy and install a suitable pipe, users first need to determine the air flow of the system. Accordingly, you can base on the specifications given by the manuafacturer to know the maximum output of industry air compressor every minutes or hour to choose the most suitable pipe size.

HOW TO DESIGN AND ARRANGE PNEUMATIC PIPELINES

For the company have a lot of equipments, machinery in many different working positions, the design and installation of air compressor piping system need to be carefully calculated to have a optimal plan, restricting pends and joints. The reason is that the bends and couplings can reduce the pressure of compressed air and have high pressure drop, affecting the performance of the whole system. Some notes you need to consider when designing and arrange pipelines are:

-The pressure loss of the pipeline shall not exceed 5% of the disign pressure of the compressor. Therefore, you need to choose a pneumatic pipe with a larger diameter than the disign pipe diameter

-Branches need to be connected above the main pipe to prevent water condensation

-Users must not arbitrarily reduce the size of the main pipe beacause if the airflow is changed abnormally at the connection position, it will cause pressure loss

-If the compressor system includes air tanks and dryers, users need to arrange the pipeline according to the principle: pneumatic pump-air tanks-air dryers

-To avoid pressure loss in the system, the gas flow rate in the pipeline must be designed not to exceed 15m/s.

-If you want to avoid the pressure loss of the compressed air, the system of  screw air compressors and piston compressors, the less the joints, bends and valves are the better

-The ideal piping structure is to allow the main pipeline circumnavigate the entire plant so that the air pressure is always balanced in all position