i.HOC celebrates world premiere
SAM2, Sigma Network, predictive maintenance and premium quality compressed air treatment, Kaeser Kompressoren is proud to showcase an impressive array of innovations at ITMA 2015. These exciting new products and services not only ensure maximum compressed air supply reliability, efficiency and cost-effectiveness, but also allow users to take full advantage of Industry 4.0 capabilities.
The Sigma Air Manager 2 (SAM 2) is an even more powerful, next-generation version of the highly successful master controller from Kaeser Kompressoren. It offers key advantages in two main respects, first, highly efficient control of all compressed air station components and second, powerful data analysis tools that enable predictive maintenance, as well as a range of other innovative features. All of this results in significant energy cost savings, optimised efficiency and advanced energy management capability as per ISO 500001.
Sigma Network
The new highly secure, Ethernet-based Sigma Network enables optimal compressed air station monitoring and control. This proprietary IT infrastructure is designed as a closed network and was specially developed by Kaeser for Kaeser products.
Naturally, in developing the Sigma Network, Kaeser chose to partner only with software and hardware manufacturers that share Kaeser’s commitment to the very highest quality and performance standards. Consequently, by making a wide range of key data rapidly available for analysis, the Sigma Network provides customers with maximum service performance and cost savings.
Predictive maintenance
Imagine no more unscheduled downtime! What if you knew in advance whether your compressor actually required maintenance in the near future or not and to what extent it was actually necessary? All of this is possible by transitioning from scheduled to predictive maintenance. The overriding benefit of this feature is that it dramatically reduces the total lifecycle costs of a compressed air supply system.
Premium quality compressed air treatment
Kaeser Kompressoren also offers a host of innovations for application-tailored compressed air treatment. Products include the Secotec TF refrigeration dryer (featuring completely new thermal mass technology), high-performance Kaeser filters and the DSG-2 dry-running rotary screw compressor equipped with the integrated i.HOC rotation dryer. Needless to say, all of these innovations are designed with maximum efficiency and potential energy cost savings in mind.
i.HOC celebrates world premiere
i.HOC is the new integrated attachment rotation dryer for dry running rotary screw compressors from Kaeser Kompressoren. It provides a reliable and stable supply of compressed air with pressure dew points to minus 40 degrees Celsius, even in challenging environmental conditions – and also saves energy.
i.HOC stands for “integrated Heat Of Compression dryer”. This means that the heat, which is a by-product of air compression, is used to regenerate the desiccant. The heat is essentially available for free, as no additional energy is required to power the drying process. The result, reliable air drying with maximum efficiency and lower energy costs, even for varying quantities of air.
Compared to systems already on the market, i.HOC takes advantage of the entire quantity of available heat. This means that low pressure dew points can be reliably achieved even in challenging conditions, such as low pressure, high temperature or low load operation. This is made possible by a high-efficiency radial blower with variable control, which serves two main purposes: to compensate for the pressure lost in the drying process and automatically adapt the drying process to changing operating conditions. Full-flow regeneration, together with an additional patented process, ensures dependable drying, without additional electrical heat sources or coolers, even at ambient temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius.
The integrated Sigma Control 2 compressor controller perfectly manages the entire process, controlling the radial blower and drum drive of the i.HOC integrated rotation dryer. Regardless of the operating conditions or the required air delivery volume, the controller automatically adjusts accordingly to ensure reliable and consistent production of pressure dew points down to minus 20 degrees Celsius, and under special conditions down to as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius.
The logical, compact system design not only enables straightforward and low-cost installation, but also offers optimal serviceability features and a relatively small footprint.
Moreover, the Kaeser i.HOC system provides impressive heat recovery rates. The full-flow regeneration process with water-cooled dry-running rotary screw compressors allows the compressor cooler to be used for heat recovery purposes.
This system completely eliminates the heat losses associated with existing systems caused by separate dryer coolers and saves the cost of energy that would have to be expended to produce process heat or to provide space heating.
The entire range of innovative Kaeser products and solutions is displayed in Hall 6, Stand H6-G122 at ITMA.