Air Knife - Air Blade™ Curved

How It Works:

Air Knife - Air-Blade™ Blow-Off System produces a curtain of air along the length of the application using the same "Coanda" effect utilized in our Air Amplifiers. There are no moving parts, with compressed air from a local production line source being used to amplify end entrain surrounding air. Output volumes almost twenty times higher than those at the input can be achieved.

Offered in aluminum or stainless steel and can be manufactured in any length from a combination of our standard sizes.

Applications:

Typical applications can replace curved or angled pipe, or rows of nozzles used for blow-off, cleaning, drying or cooling.

Automotive:

• Remove water, coolant, dust, and scrap in parts manufacturing and in assembly operations. Can be used to cool parts. Especially useful to cover wide areas

Bottling:

• Open and close packaging lids or tops.

Chemicals:

• Blow off of chemicals or water prior to labeling or packaging as with bottling operations.

Food:

• Remove water from product or packaging.
• Control application of some materials to the food product such as sugar, icing etc.
• Open pouches in bagging operations. Dry food.

General Manufacturing:

• Part ejection, air curtain barrier, dust and liquid blow off from all types of parts.
• Ideal for replacing fans in some cooling operations.
• Remove scrap from CNC machines
• Four pieces can be put together in a circle and put inside pipe to clean the inside

Metals:

• Coolant and other liquid removal on process lines from Aluminum, Steel, Brass or other materials.
• Dry metals prior to other operations such as plating or polishing.
• Cool metal parts prior to coating or painting.

Paper & Lumber:

• Paper dust removal and control.
• Dust removal from plywood and panel board.

Plastic:

• Dust and scrap blow off.
• Cool off molten plastic in dip molding.

Printing:

• Cooling to set some inks, scrap blow off, hold down labels prior to printing, cool adhesives to allow faster speeds in label applications and binding operations.

Pharmaceutical:

• Remove liquid prior to labeling or packaging waste removal from solid materials.

Textile:

• Cleaning and drying of cloth or other materials.

Air-Blade™ Curved Air Knife - Compressed Air Consumption Chart:

Based on an Amplification Ratio of 40:1 the air flow out would be 40 times the above.

Compressed Air Flow Through A Hole In Standard Cubic Feet Per Minute
(14.7 Psia/70ºF/0% Relative Humidity)

Air-Blade™ Air Knife is Cost Effective:

Example Of An Air Saving Calculation

1. From the chart showing air flow through a hole, assume we have a ¼ circle pipe 8 inches in overall length with 1/16" holes spaced ½” apart with a total number of 15 holes. The air pressure in the system is 60 PSIG.

2. From the chart each 1/16" hole consumes 4.23 SCFM at 60 PSIG. Total air consumed is 15 X 4.23 = 63.45 SCFM.

3. From the Compressed Air Consumption Chart the Curved Air Blade air knife consumes 18.1 SCFM at 60 psig.

4. Assuming a compressed air cost of 30 cents/1000 standard cubic feet and an 8 hour day operation for 200 days per year, the Drilled Pipe Will Cost: 63.45 cu. ft./min. X 60 min./hr. X $.30/1000 cu. ft. X 200 days X 8 hrs/day equaling $1,827.00 a year.

5. The Curved Air-Blade™ Curved Air Knife X-stream Will Cost: : 18.1 cu. ft./min. X 60 min./hr. X $ .30/1000 cu. ft. X 200 days X 8 hrs/day equaling $521.00 a year

6. The Savings Per Year using the Curved Air-Blade™ Curved Air Knife X-Stream will be $1,827.00 - $ 521.00 = $1,306.00 per year!