My love affair with compressed air started a number of years ago when I got an entry level oil-less air compressor for Christmas. Looking like a bloated red fire hydrant lying on its side, it made a ...

Compressed air is critical in many industrial and nonindustrial applications, including powering pneumatic tools and conveyor systems, cleaning equipment and airfilling amusement park objects. While ...

Compressed air is vitally important to all power plants. Although in some cases it is used simply for convenience, such as when operating certain pneumatic tools, in other cases, compressed air is ...

Bob Safford, senior key account manager at Kaeser Compressors USA in Fredericksburg, Virginia, calls an air compressor “the third child” of a material recovery facility (MRF). “[Air compressors] seem ...

Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) systems offer a promising approach to addressing the intermittency of renewable energy sources by utilising excess electrical power to compress air that is stored ...