No More Problems with High-Pressure Air Compressors in Water Treatment
No More Problems with High-Pressure Air Compressors in Water Treatment
2 PagesNo More Problems with High-Pressure Air Compressors in Water Treatment Sloan Lubrication Systems Company: Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission Industry: Environmental Services: Consulting, Design & Installation Products: Watchman Lubrication Systems The Problem Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission has a bank of 12 Worthington BDC electric- driven 800 psi air compressors in its “heat treat” process. They pump pressurized air into the “product” tanks (nobody in the business calls it sewage) to speed up biological treatment. Each compressor has 17 critical lubrication points on cylinders and rod packing. When we first met the good folks at Passaic Valley, that job was done by multiple pump McCord lubricators which were hard to control and often failed. After an initial visit in 1989, John Sloan w
