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Industrial Parts

Paxton has everything you need when looking for industrial drying systems for air drying industrial parts.  Paxton blowers and air knives are more energy efficient and are guaranteed to get all your drying, coating, blowing off debris or conveying jobs done.

 

Benefits: 

  • Increased line speeds
  • Reduced energy usage by as much as 80%
  • Decreased amount of product quality rejects
  • Less maintenance and labor required

 

Paxton Products Used: 

  • PX-Series Centrifugal Blower System - used with air delivery devices to blow off, dry, and convey
    • Can be configured with blowers ranging from 3 - 20 hp
    • Blowers can be configured with Variable Frequency Drives to easily adjust and adapt to varying product sizes
  • Nozzle Manifolds - used when the targeted surface is more than five inches away from the air source; or for irregular shapes and products that have nooks, crannies, and holes
    • Can be configured for lengths ranging from six inches to 10 feet (15 centimeters - 3.5 meters)
    • Can be configured with a wide variety of different nozzle configurations and sizes in order to target specific, hard to reach areas
  • Air Knives - provide a continuous stream of air across the targeted surface
    • Available in both 304 Stainless Steel and Aluminum
    • Can be configured for lengths ranging from six inches to 10 feet (15 centimeters - 3.5 meters)

 

Other Applications:

  • Blowing Off  -- removal of debris, metal or wood shavings, dust or powder cleaning agents, oils or sealants
  • Drying after painting, coating, shrink labeling
  • Drying after washing -- drying is critical before coding, marking, painting or coating.  Paxton Air Systems can provide spot drying, or all-over drying, using a custom-engineered air delivery system
  • Pneumatic conveying and sorting of plastic parts, plastic caps, small metal parts, or other components
  • Static elimination and cleaning of the interior or exterior of cans and bottles; metal sheets; parts or materials before powder coating or painting
  • Conveyor cleaning and drying
  • Vacuum hold down of fabrics, wood products, metal sheets

 

Injection Molding travels along conveyor belt

Conveyor Cleaning: Gypsum Removal

An electric power company wants to remove residual gypsum from their conveyors after the bulk of the gypsum has unloaded. Gypsum is a byproduct of the clean-coal burning process and is usually sent to a landfill if it cannot be used.  Recently, a drywall manufacturer built a facility nearby and will use this gypsum as feedstock.  By installing a blower system to blow the residual off the conveyor, the customer will be able to collect the gypsum, increase revenue and reduce the amount of gypsum deposited into landfills.

Paxton will supply a 126” length dual plenum air knife with two, 20HP AT 1200 blowers.  Each blower will supply 813 CFM @ 91” of W.C.

Condensation on the outside of a Metal Tube

Metal Tube Drying, Pre-print

A Midwestern metal tube manufacturer must dry large metal tubes, ranging in diameter from 8” –20”, before printing.  They are currently drying the tubes using four 2” fan nozzles, with 105 psi compressed air, but are occasionally having quality issues, despite the use of 100 cfm of air.  They would like to switch to blower-driven air for the energy savings, while improving the quality of the drying.

For the Paxton Air System, a 5 hp blower will supply three 6’ air knives, providing 200 cfm air at 60” of water column.   The Paxton System will use only 3.3 hp compared to 22.8 hp for the existing compressed air system, resulting in an energy savings of about $1.50 per hour and yielding an ROI of less than 11 months for a 24 x 5 day operation.

Conveyor Drying

Conveyor Drying

A Design and Engineering service company is focused on drying 1mm prill sphere off the underside of a conveyor. Without a current blow-off system, they are having trouble removing wetness from specific crevices. The service company came to Paxton Products looking to implement their first blow-off system. Paxton proposed a PX-500 with an aluminum air knife to reduce their production time and solve their blow-off issue.

Part Drying for Injection Molding

A West Coast metal injection molding/die casting company needed to blow off various products after rinsing. They have 7 lines in the facility using two 12” air knives each of unregulated compressed air at plant pressure 100 psi consuming 64 CFM. They would like to replace their compressed air drying application with an energy efficient solution that provides an ROI of 12 months or less.

The Paxton solution utilizes a 5 hp XT-500 blower with two 12” aluminum air knives which will provide the line with 250 CFM at 50” water column. Each line of compressed air replaced with a Paxton system will free up approximately 12 hp of their existing compressed air system. The system will have a wash-down enclosure so the system can be put right next to the wash-down area of each line. The ROI of the project is less than 10 months.

Close up of metal shavings

Conveyor Blow Off: Metal Shavings

A Midwestern machining company needs to blow metal chips off of their conveyor after a machining process. They have three lines and are currently using one 18” and one 24” compressed air knife on each line, operating at 40 psi, to remove the chips from the conveyor, giving a total compressed air usage of 86 CFM. They would like to switch to blower-driven air in order to reduce energy consumption.

For the Paxton Air Systems, for each line, a 10 hp blower will supply two 24” air knives, providing 550 CFM at 50” of water column. The Paxton Systems will each use 7.8 hp compared to the 13 hp for each of the existing compressed air systems, a savings of over 5 hp per line. Along with the energy savings, the company is able to free up almost 40 hp (3 x 13 hp) on their compressor for operations that require compressed air operation.

Energy Savings

Energy Savings

An Engineering and Manufacturing Service company is looking for a solution to dry parts moving at one foot per second from an overhead conveyor. They spray clean water and blow them off with compressed air. They found when using a compressed air solution, their products were not dry to their satisfaction. 

The company was looking for a custom-made system that was able to solve their drying needs. With a Paxton System put in place, including a PX-2000 blower with an aluminum air knife, the company was able to produce less rejects and obtain a ROI in energy savings in under two years.


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