The company aims to "revolutionize the market" through its blower with greater energy savings

The life of the editor of technical magazine has some advantages and these include, for example, the fact of visiting places of great natural beauty as the forest estate in Madrid, where he was presented the new range of products of Atlas Copco. Although it is also true that this natural beauty is really remote, to more than an hour away by car, near the town of towers of Pezuela, on the edge of the community of Madrid.

The invited journalists were greeted by John Cleeve, general manager, and by Cristina Cubillo, communication manager, who reminded those present the main features of the multinational, with a workforce of 32,000 employees. For the few who do not know, we should point out that Atlas Copco has three business areas such as mining and construction, industrial applications and techniques in compressed energy.

But who took the weight of the presentation was Javier Martín Fernández, technical commercial of the downtown area, who graced the technical interventions of his teammates with his sense of humor and some tricks of magic and Mentalism. That is not deceive the reader, it was a serious presentation of the new products, Atlas Copco, company that decided to accurately give a touch of a little more relaxed that, generally speaking, tend to be overly long and technical presentations.

Enrique Quintana, product manager of low pressure, was commissioned to present the latest developments in the range of blowers, which save 30% with the new technology of screw. ZS range also innovates in the re-use of generated heat, as the compressor Atlas Copco, according to the own Quintana, recover 85% of the heat, which can be used for the heating of the water of boilers. There are many industries that use air blower in processes that will benefit from increased energy efficiency of the Atlas Copco blowers.

Municipal or industrial wastewater treatment plants can be the most benefit, as the blowers of air account for 70% of the energy consumption in electricity. Other industries who will benefit are those related to the pneumatic transport, power generation, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, pulp and paper, textiles or cement and construction. It is why and by large energy savings that can assume all these sectors who from Atlas Copco claim that they want to "revolutionize the market of the blowers".

According to the spokesmen of Atlas Copco, an independent study of the Association for technical inspection (Technische Überwachungs-Verein) compared the performance of the soplante new ZS screw with a trilobular blower in accordance with the international standard ISO 1217, Edition 4. This test demonstrated that the ZS blowers are energy a 23.8% more efficient than the trilobulares blowers range ZL (of Rotary lobes type "Broken") to 0.5 bar (e) / 7 psig and 39.7 per cent to 0.9 bar (e) / 13 psig.

The blower tribulares are known as 'roots' because the Roots brothers discovered the principle of the blower of positive displacement in 1854, a technology which have been implemented small changes to reduce the noise of keystrokes and vibrations in the last century and a half. It is for this reason that the Belgian company has replaced this technology for the compression by screw, which allows the compression and heating of the air in the same movement.

But this is not the only new aspect of this technology or solely responsible for the total energy savings. To reduce losses by transmission, Atlas Copco also includes an integrated gear box of direct drive instead of a belt/pulley system. In addition, drawing on his experience in design of integrated components, you can make a set of complete blower with a minimum pressure drops in the air circuit. The combination of all these elements, which according to its representatives, are fully optimized and designed specifically for its use, allow a reduction of the energy consumption of up to 30%.

Another positive aspect of the new blower is its greater length, since the two-year average of the old you tribulares have been arriving, according to officials of the company, up to 20 years. It is true that it is a more expensive product with regard to the initial investment, but at the same time generates higher energy savings which is beneficial in the long term. The durability in the time of the ZS range has been achieved by the lining of the elements that it creates closer tolerances and prolongs the service life, with some bearings that are designed for continuous operation. With the ZS + VSD, customers also can save you installation costs, this blower comes as a complete unit ready to work with an integrated controller.

But not only of screw blower lives Atlas Copco, because before you comment earlier told journalists, Juan Ignacio Iturralde, business line of energy Transportable, flailed journalists the wonders of the range of 7 to 12 bars compressors, which are which, according to Iturralde, "are known on the street". These, which are used mostly for pilotage, drilling and geothermal, blasting in banks or restoration of pipes, have experienced in recent years a number of improvements from the Department of research & development of the company.

In this Department, according to Iturralde, have achieved a reduction of 30% of the weight and the size of the machinery, a reduction in the consumption of 12% and a reduction of 99% in emissions. Finally, Iturralde wanted to remind those present that the campaign of renovation of machinery continues. The next to appear was María Valverde, commercial Specialty rental, who described the facilities that provides 24/7 global solution with technical support service.

He also recalled that SR renews its products on an ongoing basis and that contingency plans are organized to avoid unemployment of the plants and factories. According to Valverde, Atlas Copco rental service helps companies that contact with them to solve the specific problems. Is why who have experience in applications in the pressurization of domes of nuclear power stations, solar thermal power plants and in drilling.