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AIR COMPRESSOR AFTER-TREATMENT EQUIPMENT

Complete Compressed Air Filtration and Purification Services

Sollant specializes in the R&D, production, sales, and service of compressed air drying and purification equipment. Our products incorporate advanced freezing and adsorption technologies, precise assembly, and reliable filtration materials, ensuring stable quality and worry-free after-sales for air purification, air separation, and environmental protection needs.

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Our Core Products

A full range of refrigerated air dryers, adsorption dryers and filters, focusing on creating customized compressed air purification solutions for customers

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Refrigerated Air Dryer

Refrigerated Air Dryer efficiently removes moisture from compressed air, ensuring dry, high-quality air for optimal equipment performance and longevity.

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Adsorption Air Dryer

Adsorption Air Dryer removes moisture by absorbing water vapor, delivering ultra-dry compressed air.

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Air Filter

A precision filter efficiently removes impurities, oil, and water from compressed air, ensuring clean air output.

Why Choose Us

Choose us, you will enjoy a one-stop service, from refrigerated dryers to adsorption dryers and combined dryers, the solutions we provide perfectly match your compressed air purification needs

Custom Solutions

Specializing in the R&D and manufacturing of gas drying and purification equipment, we are committed to providing users with optimal, tailor-made services and solutions that meet the unique needs of our customers and partners.

Energy Saving & Environmental Protection

Guided by low-carbon intelligent manufacturing, we innovate in energy-efficient products and smart technology integration, offering comprehensive solutions for high-quality development through research and innovation.

Rapid Response

Customer-centric with streamlined pre-sales and after-sales service, we focus efficiently on user needs, delivering competitive solutions and on-site support to continuously maximize customer value.

Frequently Asked Questions

Adsorption dryers play a key role in compressed air purification, and their importance is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

  1. Moisture removal: Adsorption dryers effectively remove moisture from the air by introducing compressed air into a desiccant such as silica gel or molecular sieves. This helps prevent corrosion, freezing or other moisture-related problems in pipes, equipment and processes.
  2. Improve air quality: Removing moisture and other contaminants can significantly improve the quality of compressed air, thereby ensuring the stability and efficiency of subsequent equipment and processes.
  3. Extended equipment life: Moisture can cause equipment wear, corrosion, or failure. Using an adsorption dryer can reduce the effects of moisture and extend the service life of your equipment.
  4. Reduced Maintenance Costs: Dryers can reduce breakdowns and maintenance needs due to moisture, thereby reducing overall maintenance costs and downtime.
  5. Guarantee product quality: In many industrial applications, such as pharmaceuticals, food processing and electronics manufacturing, the quality of compressed air directly affects the quality of the product. Adsorption dryers ensure that the air reaches the required level of cleanliness and meets quality standards.
  6. Improved production efficiency: Clean compressed air helps improve the efficiency of production lines and reduces production problems or downtime caused by moisture.

In short, adsorption dryers play a vital role in compressed air purification, which can effectively remove moisture and other pollutants, ensuring stable operation of the system and high quality of products.

Choosing the right compressed air dryer requires considering several factors to ensure it will meet the needs of your specific application. Here are some key steps and considerations:

1. Understand your needs:
Airflow: Determine the maximum airflow of your system to select the appropriate dryer capacity.
Inlet air temperature: Understand the inlet temperature of your compressed air as this will affect dryer selection and efficiency.
Dew point requirements: Determine the desired dew point temperature (degree of dryness), as different applications have different humidity requirements.

2. Choose the type of dryer:
Refrigerated dryer: Suitable for applications with low humidity requirements, using refrigeration to cool the air to remove moisture, suitable for general industrial use.
Adsorption dryer: Suitable for applications that require low dew point temperature, removes moisture through adsorption materials, suitable for applications that require high cleanliness, such as pharmaceuticals and food processing.
Membrane dryer: Suitable for applications with small gas flow rates, removes moisture through membrane separation technology.

3. Environmental conditions:
Make sure the dryer is suitable for the operating conditions of the environment, such as temperature, humidity and air quality.

4. Installation Space:
Make sure the dryer is sized appropriately for the installation space, and consider ventilation and maintenance space requirements.

Heatless regenerative adsorption dryers rely on naturally weakened adsorption capacity to achieve regeneration, without additional heating, low energy consumption, and are suitable for applications with high energy efficiency requirements. Since there is no heating system, its maintenance is relatively simple, but the regeneration process is slow, and it is usually suitable for occasions where the regeneration time is not required.

In contrast, micro-heat regenerative adsorption dryers accelerate the regeneration process by heating the desiccant. Although a certain amount of energy is required, the heating temperature is lower and the energy consumption is lower than that of traditional thermal regeneration dryers. This type of dryer provides faster regeneration time and higher drying efficiency, and is suitable for applications with high dew point requirements. Because it includes a heating system, its initial investment is higher and maintenance is slightly more complicated.

In general, the choice of which dryer depends on the specific application needs, budget, and requirements for drying efficiency and maintenance.

Selecting the right dryer (refrigerated dryer) is essential to ensuring the efficiency and stability of your compressed air system. Here are some key factors to help you choose the right dryer for your air compressor:

1. Airflow requirements
Calculate requirements: Determine the amount of airflow your system needs to handle (usually expressed in cubic meters per minute or hour). The dryer should be sized to handle the maximum airflow requirements of your system.

2. Inlet air temperature
Consider inlet air temperature: Check the inlet air temperature of your compressed air system. The dryer must be designed to handle your actual inlet air temperature, and it is usually necessary to select a dryer that can work effectively within a specific temperature range.

3. Dew point requirements
Choose the appropriate dew point: Determine the required dew point temperature based on the requirements of the application. The design dew point of the dryer should meet the requirements of your application. For example, some industrial applications may require a lower dew point to prevent moisture from negatively affecting the production process.

4. Energy efficiency
Check energy efficiency: Select a high-efficiency dryer to reduce energy consumption and operating costs. Check the energy efficiency ratio (EER) of the dryer and whether it has energy-saving features (such as variable frequency technology).

5. Installation Space
Evaluate the installation space: Make sure the size of the dryer fits the space you have reserved, and consider ventilation and maintenance space requirements. Choose a model that is easy to install and maintain.

6. Maintenance and Operation
Consider maintenance requirements: Choose a dryer that is easy to maintain and operate. Check whether regular filter changes, cleaning, or other maintenance measures are required. Less maintenance requirements can reduce long-term operating costs.

7. Brand and Service
Choose a reliable brand: Choose a dryer manufacturer with a well-known brand and good after-sales service. Good customer support and service can ensure long-term stable operation of the equipment.

8. Budget
Consider the budget: Choose a dryer that is suitable for your budget. Consider the balance between initial investment and long-term operating costs.

9. Environmental Conditions
Adapt to environmental conditions: Make sure the dryer is suitable for the working conditions of the environment, such as temperature and humidity. Some environmental conditions may require a specially designed dryer to ensure reliable operation.

Moisture in compressed air may cause a series of problems and hazards, including:

1. Equipment damage and corrosion
Corrosion: Moisture can cause corrosion inside equipment and pipelines, shorten the service life of equipment, and increase the frequency of maintenance and replacement.
Freezing: In low temperature environments, moisture may freeze, causing freezing of pipelines or equipment, affecting system operation.
2. Reduced production efficiency
Reduced gas flow: The presence of moisture affects the fluidity of gas, resulting in reduced gas flow, which in turn affects production efficiency.
Degraded equipment performance: Moisture may cause unstable equipment operation and reduce work efficiency.
3. Impact on product quality
Product defects: In some industrial applications, such as spraying, pneumatic transmission, etc., moisture may cause defects on the product surface, such as bubbles or uneven coating.
Product contamination: Moisture may contaminate some sensitive production processes (such as food, medicine, etc.), affecting product quality and safety.
4. Increased energy consumption
Energy waste: Moisture increases the load on the equipment, requiring more energy to maintain the normal operation of the system, thereby increasing energy consumption and operating costs.
5. Increased maintenance and cleaning costs
Maintenance requirements: Corrosion and blockage caused by moisture will increase the maintenance requirements of equipment, resulting in frequent inspections and cleaning work, which will increase maintenance costs.
Difficulty of cleaning: Dirt and scale caused by moisture will increase the difficulty and cost of cleaning.
6. Safety hazards
Explosion risk: In some applications, moisture and other chemicals may react chemically, increasing safety hazards.
Electrical failure: When moisture comes into contact with electrical equipment, it may cause electrical failure or short circuit, posing a safety risk.
7. Production process interference
Process interruption: Moisture may interfere with the production process, causing system failure or production line shutdown, thereby affecting production continuity and efficiency.
To avoid these hazards, it is recommended to use appropriate air drying equipment (such as refrigerated dryers, adsorption dryers, etc.) to remove moisture from compressed air to ensure stable operation of the system and high quality of products.

The following factors should be considered when choosing a suitable precision filter:

  1. Filter accuracy: Select the appropriate filter accuracy according to actual needs, such as 1 micron, 0.01 micron, etc.
  2. Air flow: Ensure that the filter’s flow capacity meets the system’s requirements.
  3. Working pressure: The filter should be designed to withstand the system’s working pressure.
  4. Maintenance requirements: Consider the maintenance frequency and replacement cycle of the filter.
  5. Environmental conditions: Select a filter that can adapt to the working environment conditions, such as temperature, humidity, etc.

Adsorption dryer and freeze dryer are two different drying technologies, each with its own characteristics and applicable scenarios. Here are their main differences:

1. Working principle

Adsorption dryer: uses adsorbent materials (such as molecular sieves or activated carbon) to remove moisture from the air. The air passes through the desiccant layer, the moisture is adsorbed to the desiccant, and the dried air is discharged. The adsorbent needs to be regenerated regularly to restore its moisture absorption capacity.

Refrigerated dryer: Also known as a freeze dryer or a freeze dryer, it mainly removes moisture by first freezing the moisture in the air into ice and then converting the ice into gas through sublimation without going through the liquid stage. This process includes three stages: freezing, sublimation, and drying.

2. Applicable environment

Adsorption dryer: Suitable for application environments that require low dew point and continuous drying, such as pharmaceutical, food processing and electronics industries. It can handle air flows with large humidity changes.

Refrigerated dryer: Suitable for scenarios where a large amount of moisture needs to be removed, such as biological products, pharmaceuticals and high-value foods. It is usually used to handle substances with high humidity.

3. Energy consumption and efficiency

Adsorption dryer: Relatively low energy consumption, especially when dealing with relatively dry air. However, energy consumption increases during the regeneration process.

Refrigerated dryer: Usually high energy consumption because of the freezing and heating process. However, freeze-dried products usually retain more of their original properties and nutrients.

4. Maintenance and cost

Adsorption dryer: Maintenance is relatively simple, but the adsorbent needs to be replaced or regenerated regularly. The initial investment cost is low.

Refrigerated dryer: Maintenance is more complicated, especially for equipment that needs to handle freezing and sublimation stages. The initial investment cost is higher, but it is suitable for drying high-value products.

Air compressor post-processing equipment is used to process the compressed air generated by the air compressor to ensure that its quality meets specific requirements. Compressed air needs to be properly post-processed before use to remove impurities and moisture to prevent damage to subsequent equipment and applications. Common air compressor post-processing equipment includes:

1. Air filter
Coarse filter: removes large particle pollutants such as dust and sand from the air.
Precision filter: removes smaller particles and droplets to improve the cleanliness of the air.

2. Refrigeration Dryer
Uses refrigeration technology to reduce the air temperature, causing the moisture in the air to condense into water droplets, which are then removed from the compressed air. Suitable for handling relatively high humidity.

3. Adsorption Dryer
Uses adsorbents (such as molecular sieves or activated carbon) to remove moisture from the air. Suitable for applications requiring extremely low dew points.

4. Oil-water separator
Remove oil and water from compressed air. Often used in conjunction with air filters to ensure air quality.

5. Cooler
Cools compressed air before it enters the dryer, helping to lower the temperature of the air and condense the water for further processing.

6. Oil mist separator
Remove oil mist from compressed air to prevent oil from negatively affecting downstream equipment and applications.

7. Compressed air storage tank
Store processed compressed air to balance system load and stabilize air supply. Storage tanks are usually used in conjunction with dryers and filters.

8. Gas heater
If compressed air needs to be heated, gas heaters can be used to increase air temperature to meet specific application requirements.

These devices can be used individually or combined into a complete post-processing system to meet the requirements of different industrial applications. Proper configuration and maintenance of these devices can ensure the quality of compressed air, extend equipment life, and improve production efficiency.

Blower Heated Adsorption Dryer is a device used to treat moisture in compressed air. It combines blower and heat adsorption technology to improve drying effect and efficiency. The following are its main features and working principles:

Equipped with a blower, it can provide a strong airflow to increase the speed and effect of air passing through the adsorbent. The blower helps the air flow evenly through the desiccant, thereby improving the drying efficiency.

The device uses heating technology to regenerate the adsorbent. Through the heating regeneration stage, the temperature of the adsorbent can be increased, and the adsorbed moisture can be released from the adsorbent, thereby restoring its moisture absorption capacity.

Adsorbents (such as molecular sieves, activated carbon, etc.) are used to remove moisture from the air. The selection and configuration of the adsorbent affect the performance and efficiency of the dryer.

Working Principle

Air Intake
Compressed air with a high moisture content enters the dryer through a blower. The blower delivers the air evenly to the desiccant layer.

Drying Process
The air passes through the desiccant layer, and the moisture is adsorbed by the adsorbent, thereby reducing the humidity of the air. The dried air is processed and output.

Regeneration Process
After the adsorbent of the desiccant is saturated, regeneration is required. The regeneration process involves heating the adsorbent to release the adsorbed moisture. Heated air is passed through the adsorbent layer, thereby carrying away the moisture and restoring the adsorbent’s moisture absorption capacity.

Cyclic Operation
The drying and regeneration processes are usually performed alternately to ensure that the system is continuously supplied with dry air. The hot air during the regeneration process is exhausted through a blower.

The dew point of a cold dryer (freeze dryer) refers to the temperature at which water vapor begins to condense into liquid water in the compressed air after being treated by the cold dryer. The dew point temperature is one of the important indicators for evaluating the drying effect of compressed air.

Indication of air humidity:
The lower the dew point temperature, the lower the moisture content in the compressed air. A low dew point usually indicates a good drying effect.

Equipment protection:
A low dew point can prevent moisture in the air from condensing in equipment or pipelines, thereby reducing corrosion and freezing problems and protecting downstream equipment.

Product quality:
In some industrial applications, such as food processing or pharmaceuticals, controlling the dew point can ensure product quality and the stability of the production process.

Dew point range of cold dryers
The dew point temperature of cold dryers is usually between -20°C and -40°C, depending on the model and design of the equipment. A low dew point can effectively remove most of the moisture in the compressed air and is suitable for application scenarios that require high drying standards.