Oil-free air is used in all kinds of industries where air quality is paramount for the end product and production process. These applications include food and beverage processing, pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging, chemical and petrochemical processing, semiconductor and electronics manufacturing, the medical sector, automotive paint spraying, textile manufacturing and many more. In these critical environments, contamination by even the smallest quantities of oil can result in costly production downtime and product spoilage.
Setting up Industry Standard for Quality Air
First in Oil-free Air technology
Over the past sixty years, Atlas Copco has pioneered the development of oil-free air technology, resulting to wide range of air compressors and blowers that provides pure, clean air.
Screw element is designed to be free from any oil- contamination during compression process & critical applications.
True to its commitment to provide highest quality air, Atlas Copco was the first compressor manufacturer to be awarded ISO 8573-1 Class 0 certification.
Air treatment
There are applications that require high quality compressed air.
Untreated compressed air can damage your air system and contaminate your end product.
Avoiding 3 things in your air compressed system:
Water
Water in compressed air creates corrosion, rust and can damage your end products.
Dust
Dust in your compressed air creates extra friction, which leads to extra wear & tear in the air system. Pneumatic valves as example.
Oil
Oil particles entering the compressed air system can contaminate or damage raw materials and end products. With our Class Zero certified compressor, we can deliver guaranteed oil-free air for applications in Industry like Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Chemicals and other sensitive and critical applications.
Our air treatment portfolio
Atlas Copco provides complete solution in quality air treatment from compressed air source up to the point of use. Ranging from different types of dryer (based on application need) to the compressed air and process filtration…
These dryers can match our ZE/ZA low pressure screw air compressor technology.
Refrigerant dryer
Refrigerant dryers are the most common and consist of an air-to-air heat exchanger and an air-to-Freon heat exchanger. They are used to avoid free water and corrosion in the system. A relative humidity of below 50% is enough to achieve this. Refrigerant dryers are available in water-& air-cooled variants.
Desiccant dryer
Adsorption dryers are used when the compressed air application requires a pressure dew point below 0°C. In most cases, the dryers consist of two pressure vessels next to each other. Both vessels are filled with desiccant. When one vessel is removing moisture, the other is regenerating and vice versa.
Drum dryer
A variant on the twin tower heat of compression adsorption dryer is the rotary drum adsorption dryer. A rotary drum dryer exists of one vessel with a drum. This drum is a honeycomb structure on which the adsorption material is impregnated. ¾ of the drum is used to dry the compressed air, while the other quarter is used for regeneration. The regeneration is done with hot compressed air.
Filters
We offer a wide selection of utility and process filtration solutions for compressed air and gas with different filter types and grades to remove any dust, micro organisms or oil from your compressed air system.
ISO 22000 certified
ISO 22000 plays a vital role in ensuring quality and transparency in food processing and production facilities, including feed plants. There are three primary safety hazards in the food and beverage industry that ISO 22000 addresses: biological, chemical and physical. The key components of the ISO 22000 certification seek to address those hazards by identifying and dealing with them. Our ZE/ZA compressors are ISO 22000 certified, guaranteeing safe use in application in industries such as Food and Beverage.
