“Nothing but hot air - saving impalpable costs and optimize compressed-air systems”
An interview with Christian Schuldt, Manager of CS Instruments GmbH, about wrong scaled compressors, leaking pipe-systems and the ability of allocating energy-costs to it’s causers.
What is the status quo? (watch the interview on youtube.com)
Christian Schuldt: Compressed air is a well established energy source with a wide field of application – for example in the automotive- and food-industry as well as in a wide range of craft jobs. Sadly most compressed-air systems are over-sized and constantly leaking air not to speak of the inadequate control of compressors and dryer. In the future these problems will grow, laws will change and adequate costs will become more important - new challenges to deal with for producing companies, thankfully solutions are available.
What about the energy-saving potential of compressed air? (watch the interview on youtube.com)
Christian Schuldt: The wide field of application and application possibilities holds nearly unlimited potential for energy-savings. Most time it’s the simple things which help a lot: sealing up leaks and splitting up the overall-system in single grids which are dis- or reconnected as needed can easy reduce consumption and costs. Using flow-meters and dew-point sensors in connection with (mobile-)data-loggers will help to keep consumption and quality under control as well as to build the basement for upcoming energy-management systems and the possibility to allocate costs to it’s causers.Just to name a few examples of how to optimize small and large scale compressed-air systems.
How to shape the future for compressed-air systems? (watch the interview on youtube.com)
Christian Schuldt: The main focus is on detailed analysis and effective controls. Upcoming laws and certificates, for example ISO 16001, will be mandatory and build the basement for new goals in energy-management. Already today, logging and monitoring solutions are available to fetch data and keep an eye on consumption and quality. Depending on size of the system there are mobile as well as connected systems with ports for various digital and analog sensors to cover current, consumption and dew-point for example. Fully automated, these systems will help discovering leaks and inefficient work-flows to reduce costs.
What are the opportunities for detailed analysis? (watch the interview on youtube.com)
Christian Schuldt: Interconnected systems are the main solution for detailed analysis of compressed-air systems. Having everything on screen allows to detect problems early, circle the source and fix it - no problem for devices with up to 12 analog and digital ports as well as the connectivity via (W)LAN. Energy-monitoring solutions like this help your employees to see “real-time” at which efficiency-level they’re working and motivates to optimize their workaround by the way.
What about your personal goal? (watch the interview on youtube.com)
Christian Schuldt: I hope to successfully introduce our newest device DS 500, an intelligent chart recorder with the connectivity of (W)LAN, USB and up to 12 different sensors with digital and analog output. In dialog with our customers, we were able to design a device following the plug&play-concept, which makes it easy to integrate and simple to use. Especially companies with a high energy-consumption get to use the detailed analytics and will be able to rise efficiency and cut energy-costs in a simple and easy way.
