Location of Detached Receivers
by Steve C
(Muscle Shoals, AL)
The receiver on our compressors are separate tanks, is it better to store these tanks inside a temperature controlled building or outside where the temperature flucuates with the seasons?
Bill says...
Hello Steve;
If you have a moment, take a look at these pages on plumbing compressed air. Follow the links to the water issue pages.
You want compressed air to cool in the receivers and drop as much water there as possible, before the compressed air gets into the mains.
It seems to me that if you are plumbing your hot compressed air to a tank outside, and it's cold out, then the air will cool faster than if the tank were in a temperature controlled, but higher temperature level, inside area.
One problem with outside tanks is the frozen water in the bottom of the outside receiver (and I think you folks are seeing freezing weather right now) blogging the auto drain, and, depending on your compressed air demand, building up a reservoir full of water.
If I had my druthers, I'd put the tanks as far from the compressor as possible (the farther travel cools the air faster) and at around 35-40 deg. F.
Other opinions welcome.
Cheers,
Bill
