Basics of NEUTEK Extractor/Dryer Operation
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Before NEUTEK's discovery of Extractor/Dryer technology the only equipment available to remove water were the mechanical inventions: the aftercooler, the refrigerator dryer, and the absorption dryer. All of that type of equipment used electric energy and operated on the same engineering principle but with different methods to remove the water. NEUTEK designed a way to remove water without using any electrical energy using a unique combination of principals not used by any of the historic mechanical equipment.
Engineering Principles
In aftercoolers, refrigerator dryers, and absorption dryers, the engineering principle has always been the same. The idea is to slow down the air velocity which will give the equipment a longer time to retain the air in order to work on it, but their methods of operation are different.
Aftercoolers are the cheapest mechanical units and are simple heat exchangers and work much like an automobile radiator does to cool the engine water. Refrigerator dryers are heat exchangers combined with freezers and are the next step up in price. They work much like a household refrigerator to chill the air.
Absorptive dryers are the most expensive to buy and operate. They contain chemicals over which the air passes. These chemicals absorb the water and hold it. Eventually these chemicals become saturated with the water and must be dried out before they can be used again or regenerated. For that reason these driers are also called regenerative or desiccant dryers.
The more time that aftercoolers, refrigerator dryers, and absorption dryers can retain the air, the more efficient they become. For that reason, aftercooler and dryer makers installed large sized inlet ports and smaller sized outlet pipes to slow down the air velocity and hold it in the mechanical unit for a longer time.
Compressor makers fit large outlet ports on their units to match up with the standard mechanical equipment. Large outlet ports also make the buyer think that there is a greater volume of air coming from his compressor than is actually coming out. These port sizes are shown in tables 1, 2, and 3.
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