Air Compressor Line Cooler

Post cooling all that water is still in the air line.

Air compressor line cooler.

5 hp quiet air compressor 1ph 2 stage 80 gallon vertical emax yellow industrial series model es05v080i1 by emax compressor 5 0 out of 5 stars 5 2 499 00 2 499. Make no mistake a cooler alone does not yield high quality compressed air. Cooling condenses lots of water. In small air systems 20 hp it s common to see the receiver tank used to separate and collect liquids.

Aftercoolers are heat exchangers for cooling the discharge from a air compressor. They use either air or water and are an effective means of removing moisture from compressed air. Air cooled aftercoolers use ambient air to cool the hot compressed air. The compressed air travels through either the spiral finned tube coil or a plate fin coil design of the aftercooler while ambient air is forced over the cooler by a motor driven fan.

In a reciprocating air compressor for example the air temperature will drop anywhere from 50 degrees fahrenheit to 75 degrees fahrenheit across the roughly six inches of travel between the discharge port and discharge line. Removing the liquid requires a moisture separator and a drain valve. Low cost air dryer water separator. If the temperature at the discharge port exceeds 300 degrees fahrenheit the refrigerant oil and adjacent mechanisms.

Aftercooler system consisting of a b m model 70266 11 x 8 x 1 tranmission engine oil cooler an ebm pabst model w2e250 hl06 01 230v ac fan 1160 cfm in open air wired in parallell with the motor so when the motor runs the fan runs and a wilkerson model x01 04 m00 automatic drain.