Why RIX compressor?

[iain/hsm]

So what's your point? That you are infatuated with air testing in Canada?

I am now.

 

[iain/hsm]

My “baby” RIX came with this filter. I have no clue to what the filter contents are
I had the air tested after purchase and the H20 content was not measurable

Your X53240 filter removes: H2O, CO, Hydrocarbons, Oil, Taste. Odour and Particles
Typical application breathing Air Grade E for an oil lubricated compressor. Typical filter life around 40 to 50 hours for a comparable size pump.

The SA-3 and SA-6 by contrast being oil free mechanically separates out the bulk of the condensed water droplets in the separators leaving only water vapour.
The filter chemical component molecular sieve "sees" a much more reduced water vapour content than with an oil lubricated compressor and therefore the filter cartridge lasts much longer.
Typical filter life around 150 to 200 hours for Grade E or at a quarter the cost.

Further the oil carry from an oil lubricated compressor will reduce the filter chemical life due to coating the molecular sieve component with a microscopic oil film that renders that part of the chemical component useless. With the additional risk to oil lubricated compressor users that the activated carbon used to remove oil is always placed after the dehydrating chemical as water vapour will wash out any adsorbed oil in the carbon element of the filter. This failure process with oil lubricated compressors is known as desorption as the oil is only adsorbed in the activated carbon it is easily desorbed into your cylinder when water condensate is present.

With oil being harder to cool than just water vapour this creates more water with oil carry over into the chemical filtration with oil lubricated compressors hence the shorter filter cartridge life

Your non measurable water content is because the air is too dry for a grade E requirement and possibly beyond the detection level of your testing method. Maybe another of the many reasons why oil free and explains another reason for the US Navy SEAL team requirement.

 

[iain/hsm]

I had the air tested after purchase and the H20 content was not measurable

The application for extremely dry (frankly non breathable for scuba ) air again using your SA block design is illustrated with the RAF version of your SA for military use that produces a liquid air component using the Thomson Joule effect for an aptly named Air to Air missile project. Measured at very low dew points.

The cooling effect of expanding a gas without requiring work energy or the transfer of heat energy at ordinary temperatures and pressures of pretty much any of the real gases (except hydrogen and helium) cool during their expansion. Although the phenomenon is well known and used in liquefying gas the application is classified but its pretty much your SA compressor

It's just one other reason why the importance of informed choice while at the same time the option for you while the opportunity still remains of not being mandated by vested industry standards committee groups and pressure groups like Canada that mandates the use of oil from a certain approved group to pollute perfectly good ambient breathing air with oil. Whatever next electric cars and Maple Syrup.

 

[BoltSnap]

The application for extremely dry (frankly non breathable for scuba ) air again using your SA block design is illustrated with the RAF version of your SA for military use that produces a liquid air component using the Thomson Joule effect for an aptly named Air to Air missile project. Measured at very low dew points.

The cooling effect of expanding a gas without requiring work energy or the transfer of heat energy at ordinary temperatures and pressures of pretty much any of the real gases (except hydrogen and helium) cool during their expansion. Although the phenomenon is well known and used in liquefying gas the application is classified but its pretty much your SA compressor

It's just one other reason why the importance of informed choice while at the same time the option for you while the opportunity still remains of not being mandated by vested industry standards committee groups and pressure groups like Canada that mandates the use of oil from a certain approved group to pollute perfectly good ambient breathing air with oil. Whatever next electric cars and Maple Syrup.

What compressors and compressor accessories do you approve of and use yourself?