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A round thing: Compressed air for safety

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Compressed air contributes to safety

Tonnes of red-hot loads are moved with ease – and over the heads of the employees. At one of KAESER’s major customers, compressed air will contribute to employee safety in the future.

Seamless steel pipes are not easy to produce. Weighing up to 27 tonnes and measuring up to 10.5 m in length, the pipes are produced from 1300 °C hollow block using the Ehrhardt drawing-pressing process. A challenging task.

Challenge

The finishing of the pipes is a great challenge. The specialists perform millimetre work on the large lathes during hollow grinding and turning. Colossi weighing tons rotate at considerable speeds. It is not without reason that the safety of the employees is the top priority here. Strong, compressed air-operated shoe brakes are responsible for ensuring that the long, heavy hollow bodies do not slip off. A lot is demanded of the installed compressed air system here: reliability.

Solution statement

The supply gap was filled by a KAESER DSDX 243 screw compressor with SFC speed control. The unit is leased. The function was extremely satisfactory.
After receiving positive news from the customer that the useful life of the compressed air system had expired, the company had decided to have KAESER Kompressoren supply the plant’s compressed air with immediate effect.
The second step of KAESER here was to supply the customer with new KAESER DSD 238 lease compressors, two KAESER DSD 202 machines whose compressed air is dehumified by two KAESER refrigeration dryers (TH 451) and fed into the factory network via a 5 m³ compressed air receiver.
All KAESER compressors are equipped with heat recovery.

Customer value

Reliability of the installations is guaranteed
Cash savings thanks to the positive energy balance of the KAESER compressor
Support of building heating in the factory and in parts of the administration thanks to the use of heat recovery
The already excellent energy balance of the KAESER compressed air station is significantly improved once again.
A classic win-win situation

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