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Compressed
Air Filtration
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Ordinary Industrial Compressed
Air is universally wet, dirty
and contaminated with entrained oil
vapors. Specifically all industrial compressed air
will contain the following:
- Water droplets
- Water vapor
- Rust and pipe scale
- Carbon particles from decomposed
compressor oils
- Oil vapors and fumes
- Oil droplets
Industry has put up with these
problems for years, but dirty air
at the point-of-use is not inevitable.
The net gain in efficiency from filtering the air
at both the compressor site and the point-of-use
more than pays for the initial investment by:
- Eliminating production down
time
- Extending the service life
of mechanical components(tools and controls)
- Reduction in the cost of
sub-standard products
- Improved product purity in
the electronics, medical, and food industries
- Product safety and quality
There are a bewildering variety
of compressed air and gas filters offered in today's
market. They range from strainers such as wire mesh,
sintered bronze or stainless steel elements, ribbon
or string wood elements, fiber or cellulose discs
to open pore sponge materials. Beach West Filters,
Inc. offers both desiccant and mechanical/ coalescing/
desiccant filters for the removal of moisture, oil,
oil vapors, and particulate down to 0.3 microns.
Compressed
Air/Gas Contaminants and Removal
Filtration begins at
the compressor site with Air Intake Filters,
Aftercoolers, Refrigerated Dryers and large Coalescing
Filters. The arrangement is more or less common in
the industry today. However, contaminants remain such
as 1) rust and scale 2) oil vapors, and 3) water vapors.
Different desiccants
are available to do effectively one or all of the
steps filtration requires. Coalescing filters, in
general, will not remove oil vapors, water vapors
or odors. True Filters, such as the desiccant
types offered by Beach Filters,
will remove contaminants by presenting a tortuous
path for the air to follow and entrap impurities throughout
the entire cartridge or element.
At full flow
rate, Beach patented Cyform® Elements trap all contaminants
- oil vapors, water and hydrocarbons, along with particulate
down to 0.3 microns.
Point-of-Use
Filtration
The presence of oil, oil vapors, and water at the
point-of-use is ordinarily evidenced by the liquid
in the bowl or trap having a milky appearance, which
is an emulsion of oil and water. These contaminants
are damaging to such sensitive equipment as instruments,
pneumatic controls and hundreds of other industrial
plant processes. The following are typical
point -of-use applications for Beach Filters:
- Instrument
Air
- Pneumatic
Controls
- Robotics
- Process
Air
- Cleaning
Parts & drying
- Air Operated
Assembly Tools
- Injection
Molding
- Filtering
Gases
- Conveying
Materials
- Air Jet
Cleaning
- Sorting
Equipment
- Separating
Pills
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- Spray
Paint & Finishes
- Bottle
& Container Cleaning
- Pneumatic
Extruders
- Air for
Packaging & Weighing
- Mixing
& Blending
- Aeration
& Agitating of Liquids
- Testing
- Operating
Clamps & Chucks
- Cooling
of Electronic Equipment
- Sandblasting
- Squeeze
rolls
- Oxygen
Analyzers
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Beach has been manufacturing filters for these and
thousands of other uses for over 50 years, for every
industry, including aircraft manufacturing, oil and
gas refineries, oil exploration, food processing plants,
medical and dental industry, technology industry and
many others. Point-of-use filters by Beach range from
<5 to 1200 SCFM at 150 to 250 PSI in a variety
of plastics, metals and desiccants to meet the most
exacting needs.
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Beach
T-Line Filters
The
triple action advantage combines three filtration
processes:
- Mechanical
separation(below, section A)
- Coalescing(below,
section B)
- Beach patented
Cylform® Desiccant Element(below, section
D)
The
mechanical separation and coalescing step
results in 80% of the oil droplets, water
and large particulate removal. Net
result, longer desiccant life. The desiccant
element (section D) results in the final filtration.
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The T-Line
models F-T20C, FT-40C, and F-T60C are high
tech 3 stage filters for compressed air and
gasses from 20 to 60 SCFM. These unique filters
remove:
- All oil
vapors and hydrocarbons
- Particulates
down to 0.3 microns
All
Beach Polyclear II® Filters have excellent
resistance to synthetic oils, hydrocarbons,
solvents, caustics and other chemicals. Maximum
operating temperature 180° F
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Outstanding Features of Beach T-Line Filters |
- Constructed
of 100% plastic components, Polyurethane,
Delrin®¹
- Lowest operating
costs
- No-tools
servicing in 7 minutes
- Clearview
- Color change of desiccant is visible
- Very low
pressure drop
- Cleanable
and reusable coalescer scrubber
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- Four times
the coalescing filtration versus competitive
filters, plus a final desiccant after
filter
- Optional
automatic drain
- 99.9% efficiency
down to 0.3 microns
- Guards are
recommended for all clearview In-line models
and T-Line Polyclear II Models
- Up to 250
PSI with Polyclear II
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Beach
In-Line Filters
With 50 years
of proven performance, these unique filters
are available with capacities of 20,60,100,200,
and 1200 SCFM at 100 PSI using Beach clearview
acrylic tube with epoxy
coated aluminum end caps. Pressures of 250
PSI are attainable with the Beach all aluminum
models or the aluminum tube with a sight glass
for visible inspection of the desiccant elements.
Like all Beach
Filters, our in-line filters remove:
- All oil
vapors and hydrocarbons
- Particulates
down to 0.3 microns
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For more Information
please consult the product
specifications page.
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