Blowers are a vital part of water treatment operations, and selecting the right one for your application is crucial. For those that require high volumes of air, the energy saved on a turbo blower can offer savings that help pay back your investment.
As an example, Nestlé’s plant in Bangkok replaced a Roots-type blower with a NamWon Turbo One blower in February of 2019 and realized approximately a 45% energy and cost savings for its food waste treatment application.
With an operating pressure setting at 0.6 bar, Nestlé’s previous power consumption averaged 1,600 kW per day, or 66.66 kW per hour. After running the NamWon Turbo One, the company reduced energy consumption to 950 kW per day, or 39.58 kW per hour.
Saving energy is saving money
Using an average of 27.08 kW per hour less, blower power consumption has decreased by more than 40% for Nestlé. That means the Bangkok plant is saving about $22,000 per year, according to a NamWon spokesperson.
Easy maintenance
While turbo blowers have a relatively higher price point than Roots-type blowers, there are some maintenance benefits for choosing a turbo. NamWon’s Turbo One offers simple maintenance. Since it uses air bearings that use air instead of lubrication oil, the blower can be used semipermanently without failure simply by changing the filter.
Blowers using oil as lubricant can incur additional costs because operators must buy oil and they typically use more electricity to run.
“In terms of environmentally friendly aspects, it is also effective to use a turbo blower,” says a NamWon spokesperson.
The Turbo One turns room-temperature air into high-temperature pressure and supplies it to the production facility. It’s a low-noise, low-vibration product that transforms inverter frequency for capacity modulation to save additional electricity costs.
NamWon is a specialized manufacturer of turbo blowers. The company researches, develops, produces and sells high-quality performance products by using modern air bearings; precision machined impellers; high-speed, high-efficiency permanent magnet motors; high-speed control inverters; and automatic control.
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