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Continuous cooler
1. Air will be hot after final 4. Aftercoolers are heat
compression, thus it will exchangers, being either air
deposit water in the pipeline cooled or water cooled units.
when the air cools down. The
water deposited in the pipeline 5. It is generally equipped with a
is in considerable quantities water separator with
which should be avoided. automatic drainage and
should be placed close to the
2. To prevent this, cooler is used
to reduce the temperature of compressor.
the compressed air in 6. Nowadays, an after-cooler is
pneumatic systems. This is 3. This process need to be built into modern compressors
needed for the normal done immediately after
operation of pneumatic compression by forcing the to ease the process.
systems. air to aftercooler which may
help to reduce the amount of
water produced due to
condensation.
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