Compressors and More

Re: Compressors and more.....

For the Bahamas, especially the Northern Islands, the economic crisis started in 2004 after a big devastating hurricane. When we found our ,again, the scenario repeated in 2005. Never we recovered here. Tourism has been a major sector also, but Nassau is the center that reaps the profits. Months without utilities.

The Bahamas have more than 700 Islands and keys. 7 Islands are key players and have some activities. Unemployment is (IMO) more than 35% and each form of industrial activity is welcome.

Here is the biggest Ship repair facility of the Caribbean, home of all the cruise lines for repairs in floating dry docks, to name one.

Plenty of products have been developed here: Naproxenium - the main ingredient of Aleve. Honeywell has a factory here. We also have a styrofoam manufacturer. Some Breweries. A shrimp farm. We have a big tank storage facility. The US had a missile basis here and also in the Apollo years, our telescopes on the island played a big role.

The latest developments flopped, mostly because the power rate. This is why I ask for the opinion and help on this forum. I know the US as a consumption (throw away) economy, but my roots are from a repair what you can, and do not spend on what is not needed economy.

I can and may not comment on politics. At the end I am a guest here and it is not up to me.

What I do now is a "is it feasible" study. The AC project is part of it and also this question. The project is about life saving materials and I am struggling to keep it here. It is very simple to have everything produced in China for 1/3 rd of the cost.

You guys have a lot of industrial experience and I am happy to have you all to keep me in line.

Our goal however is to keep production costs down without not paying for labor. I have no financial benefits, only the heart warming feeling that I worked for 100 people to get them employed.

sounds challenging even without the storms, best of luck

Thank you

Old Salt.

Thank you. Nobody wants my posts I guess, or nobody wants or can give a reasonable suggestion. Is it the style of posting that repels or is this forum just for house, garden and kitchen engineering?

In our former plant I served 15.000 m2 clean rooms of one of the giant pharma companies and they used exactly the same procedure as you described: double hose pneumatic tools. Keeping the air streams outside the clean room. That worked well @ 7 cents/kWh. We have a challenge to do better: with a knife that cuts the energy cost on both sides. When in the clean room the air is clean and we do not add contaminants - the air stays clean.

We had 16 55 HP screw compressors with oil injection that we had to get rid of afterwards at a high energy cost and we had always 3 to 5 ppm oil as traces.

This you can not blow into a clean room for many reasons.

A scroll or a Tooth compressor runs without any oil. Not even spores. When we use dry working tools, they do not add dirt either.

Here the main load for A/C is the high humidity and with blowing the air in the clean room we help the A/C with 1/12 or 8,5 %. This little change makes a difference of $1,600.00 to 2,100.00 per month per clean room in energy and maintenance costs. At 36 cents/kWh (came from 44) that counts to be competitive on the market.

I also hope to eliminate the after coolers that cost also $24,000.00 by compressing and draining the water out of the supply lines in industrial CPVC. We reverse a handicap into a benefit.