Industry

Industry

• Blowers for wastewater aeration: types and energy useBlower types used for wastewater aeration, their typical flows and pressures, why aeration can be the largest energy demand, and how to match air to demand.
• Central vacuum systems for factoriesWhen a factory should use a central vacuum system instead of compressed-air vacuum generators: the 2026 fact sheet, the 2016 DOE sourcebook and pump types.
• Compressed air in automotive plantsThe DOE example uses of compressed air in automotive plants (tools, stamping, forming, conveying, controls), the energy cost of air tools and air quality.
• Compressed air in glass and ceramics plantsThe DOE example uses of compressed air in glass and ceramics plants, why drying beyond need wastes energy, and Ultra Controlo oil-free compressors and dryers.
• Compressed air in metal plantsCompressed air uses in metals fabrication and primary metals plants, the uses the DOE calls potentially inappropriate, and Ultra Controlo equipment.
• Cutting compressed air energy costs in industryHow plants cut compressed air energy costs: leaks, pressure, controls matched to demand and inappropriate uses, with US DOE figures and ULTRASCREW data.
• Dryers and filters for industrial compressed airHow refrigerant, desiccant, membrane and other compressed air dryers work, where filters go, and the ULTRASEC, ULTRADRY and ULTRAK treatment lines.
• Elmo Rietschle vacuum pumps and blowers in PortugalUltra Controlo, headquartered in Abrunheira, Sintra, distributes and services Elmo Rietschle vacuum pumps and blowers: the range in its 2026 catalogue.
• Finding and fixing compressed air leaksHow much compressed air leaks waste, where they occur, how to estimate the leak rate, find leaks with ultrasound and keep them below 10% of output.
• Gardner Denver compressors in PortugalUltra Controlo, headquartered in Abrunheira, Sintra, distributes and services Gardner Denver compressors and blowers: the range in its 2026 catalogue.
• Heat recovery from air compressorsHow much of an air compressor's energy becomes heat, how much can be recovered as hot air or hot water, and how the Compressed Air Challenge estimates it.
• On-site oxygen generators for miningWhere mineral processing uses oxygen (gold leaching, pre-aeration, oxidation, cyanide destruction), site factors for PSA and VSA plants, and ULTRAOX VSA.
• Oxygen enrichment in steel and foundriesHow steelworks and foundries use oxygen: over 99% oxygen in the LD converter, lances in arc furnaces and cold blast cupola air at 22% to 25% oxygen.
• Oxygen for aquaculture and fish farmingWhy intensive fish farms add pure oxygen, how it is dissolved, and how liquid oxygen, cylinders and on-site PSA or VSA generators compare as sources.
• Oxygen for glass furnaces (oxy-fuel combustion)Oxy-fuel firing in glass furnaces: what replacing air with oxygen changes, and how adsorption, liquid and cryogenic oxygen supplies compare (DOE, 2001).
• Oxygen for gold leaching (CIL and CIP)Why cyanide gold leaching needs dissolved oxygen, how CIL and CIP circuits get it from air, enriched air or pure oxygen, and published oxygen figures.
• Oxygen for pulp delignification and bleachingHow oxygen delignification removes lignin before bleaching, why the EU BAT conclusions list it, its limits, and on-site oxygen from ULTRAOX VSA.
• Oxygen for wastewater treatmentHow wastewater plants use pure oxygen: high-purity oxygen activated sludge, its limits, oxygen in sewers against hydrogen sulphide, and oxygen sources.
• Oxygen-enhanced heap leachingHow gold heap leaching works, why the cyanide solution is oxygenated, the air needs of biooxidation heaps and 1990 column tests with oxygen-purged ore.
• Replacing liquid oxygen tanks with VSA on-site oxygenWhen an on-site VSA oxygen plant can replace delivered liquid oxygen: purity, power, pressure, cost factors and backup, with ULTRAOX VSA datasheet values.
• Side channel blowers: uses in industryWhat side channel (regenerative) blowers are, how they make vacuum or pressure, where industry uses them, and how they differ from side channel pumps.
• Speck pumps in PortugalUltra Controlo distributes and services Speck Pumpen liquid pumps from Sintra: the catalogue range, side-channel pumps and the 2025 rename to Circutec.
• Speck Triplex high-pressure plunger pumpsSpeck Triplex plunger pumps for industrial cleaning, hydrodemolition and washdown: the range Ultra Controlo distributes and services, from pumps to valves.
• Testing industrial compressed air quality to ISO 8573How ISO 8573-1 specifies compressed air purity and which ISO 8573 part tests oil, water, particles, gases and microbes, with editions read on iso.org.
• Thomas pumps and compressors in PortugalThomas peristaltic, diaphragm, piston, rotary vane and linear pumps, distributed and serviced by Ultra Controlo from Sintra, as listed in its 2026 catalogue.
• Vacuum and blowers for pneumatic conveyingVacuum versus positive pressure pneumatic conveying, typical dilute and dense phase figures, and the air movers that drive them: fans, blowers, compressors.
• Vacuum for packaging linesHow packaging lines use vacuum: the FDA definition of vacuum packaging, evacuating and gassing packs on thermoform machines, and side channel blowers.
• Vacuum in printing and paper handlingHow paper machines use low and high vacuum to dewater the web, how their vacuum systems save water and energy, and how sheet-fed press feeders use suction.