Bottle Drying
Advantages over Blowers
1. Reliable – no moving parts – no breakdowns
2. Maintenance free
3. Compact with much less space than blowers
4. Lightweight
5. Low Cost
6. Portable
7. Instant on and off use (you can conserve energy with on-off control)
8. No spark or explosion hazard as no electricity
9. Low noise levels, no need for extra muffling
10. Can be placed end to end for continuous flow (full flow design)
Engine Block Drying
Applications
1. Cleaning of steel sheet in strip mills
2. Parts Drying
3. Cleaning or Drying web processes
4. Pre-paint drying and blow off
5. Scrap Removal
6. Parts Cooling
7. Circuit Board Cleaning
8. Circuit Board Cooling
9. Use for environmental separation with air curtain effect
10. Open bags for filling
11. Sheet Separation
12. Bottle and container drying
How it works…..
The Silent X-Stream™ Air Blade™ Air Knife is designed to work with a standard compressed air supply. Air enters the air knife into the plenum chamber an exits the small gap slot (normally .002” or .050 mm).
The specially designed angles at the exit entrains the surrounding air utilizing the coanda effect and converts the pressure in the plenum chamber as the air exits into an amplified (40 times at 6” from the air knife), high flow, high velocity narrow and laminar profile of air.
The resulting flow recovers energy that would normally lost in pressure drop and noise. The output is a strong blow off force with laminar flow that can clean, dry, cool, and blow off with up to a 90% energy saving in compressed air when replacing drilled holes in pipe or rows of standard nozzles.
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What to look for…..
1. DESIGN: The Silent X-Stream™ Air Blade™ Air Knife is a sleek aerodynamic design. Just compare the noise level to others and the lower noise will be immediately apparent. Less noise an mean greater energy efficiency.
All Nex Flow™ air knives are either made of anodized aluminum or stainless steel.
2. COATINGS: Some manufacturers only offer un-anodized aluminum air knives which oxidize after a year and look terrible. The Nex Flow™ aluminum air knives however come in two options – standard gold color anodized or “hard anodized” for particularly difficult environments. The hard anodized versions are ideal for environments where they may encounter abrasive materials and sticky materials.
The hard anodized units hold up significantly better in such environments and reduces the need to go to stainless steel. Of course, Nex Flow™ also offers stainless steel air knives.
3. SHIMS: One of the biggest complaints with competitive compressed air operated air knives is the use of a plastic shim to maintain the gap. Even with good filtration these plastic shims tend to wear out over a short period of time and need to be replaced. Nex Flow™ only provide quality “stainless steel shims” which are not subject to this wear and tear – al at a lower price than competitive units.
4. QUALITY: Some cheap knockoffs have started to appear on the market of all makes and manufacture but it is easy to identify their poor quality. Tight quality control tolerances maintain the “air exit “gap” of the Nex Flow™ Silent X-Stream™ Air Blade™ air knife to maintain an even air flow across the face of each air knife for all the different lengths. Volume production to service our customers worldwide maintains our ability to keep prices low while maintaining high quality at a decent price.
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The Nex Flow™ Silent X-Stream™ Air Blade™ Air Knife has proven itself to be one of the most efficient, quiet and well designed air knives on the market. Its compact and optimum design with quality manufacture, anodizing, stainless steel shim makes it the ideal choice for blow off, cooling, cleaning and drying applications.