The compressesors exentos of oil allow to obtain products of big purity and save power in embotelladoras

The company Princes Gate Spring Water has attained an important energetic saving and improvements in the production of his embotelladora with headquarters Wales when substituting his installation of compressesors lubricated with oil by team Atlas Copco exento of oil to guarantee a supply of air of high quality and a high degree of purity in his products of natural water.

The plant of the company situated in Narberth (Pembrokeshire) bottles water of manantial rich in minerals filtered of natural way in the campiña local. The processes of production need a constant supply of 108 l/s of air compressesed of high quality to 7 bars to satisfy the demands of the users of air to low pressesure of the line of process, such like cylinders of air, manifolds, equipment of filled and machines entintadoras, all which contributes to an annual production of 55 million bottles of mineral water from the manantial situated in the installations of the company.

Princes Gate Supplies water bottled for big wholesale operations and of own marks for big chains of supermarkets. All these customers need providers that fulfil with the norms of minimum purity of the relative business code to the air compressesed of alimentary use, developed jointly by the British Retail Consortium and the British Compressesed Air Society. According to this code, the manager of the provision of air no contaminated is the manufacturer of the final product with the end to guarantee that the air of process is exento of contaminantes of oil, water and dirt.

The decision of the company to install two compressesors Atlas Copco exentos of oil, the ZT37 VSD and the ZT18, together with new pipes AIRnet, saw affected by the need to guarantee air of optimum quality and pure products. The air of process of Atlas Copco fulfils with the norm of purity of the air ISO 8573-1(2001). Equally, it adopts the norm of the sector of class 0 that measures the three forms of pollution by oil: aerosol, steam and liquid.

In the decision to update the compressesors of Princes Gate, influenced no only the need to guarantee air exento of oil to 100%, but also the environingingmental profits of reduction of the acoustic levels of the operations and the elimination of the time and the costs related with the waste of condensed of oil. And what is more, the function of converter of frequency integrated cheese cheese of the compressesors VSD (accionamiento of variable speed) of Atlas Copco varies the speed of the engine of accionamiento to adapt with precision to the changes of demand of air compressesed, using like this the minimum quantities of power and allowing to Princes Gate save until 35% in costs of energetic consumption.