Continental Industrie's equipment is designed for continuous operation in even the most challenging environments, delivering outstanding performance.
With their robust construction, Continental Industrie's equipment effectively provides oil-free compressed air while ensuring remarkable efficiency and reliability
Trust in Continental Industrie' technology to provide consistent results, no matter the challenge you face.
Environmental
WASTEWATER TREATMENT
The function of the blower, for this application, is to supply air to one or several tanks in order to bring oxygen to bacteria which must degrade the organic matter. To inject this air, the blower must overcome the resistance, or backpressure due to the water height and diffuser/piping losses.
As the effluent quantity to be treated changes over the course of time, it is desirable to inject only the amount of oxygen necessary and in sufficient quantities to optimize the oxygen needs of the bacteria, thus making it imperative to have the ability to vary the flow while keeping a constant pressure.
Mining
FLOTATION PROCESS
In mining, flotation is a process for separating minerals from gangue (the waste rock) by taking advantage of differences in their hydrophobicity. Differences between valuable minerals and waste gangue are enhanced through the use of surfactants and wetting agents in the flotation cell, which is designed to be forced-air fed and requires a flotation air blower. Crude ore is ground to a fine powder and mixed with water, frothing reagents, and collecting reagents. When air is blown through the mixture, mineral particles cling to the bubbles, which rise to form froth on the surface. The waste material (gangue) settles to the bottom. The froth is skimmed off, and the water and chemicals are distilled or otherwise removed, leaving a clean concentrate. The process, also called the froth-flotation process, is used for a number of minerals.
Environmental
BIOGAS
Our multi-stage blowers are used for the vacuum removal of biogas from the extraction zone to the combustion system (burner, thermal motor, etc.). Continental Industrie centrifugal blowers are also used for landfill gas extraction by vacuum of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) through pumping wells.
The durability of the centrifugal blowers, their specific "biogas type" sealing system, and their performance characteristics are all well suited to these applications requiring operation over a wide volumetric flow range.
Group 2 material: category 2G according to the ATEX 94/9/EC directive, usable in zone 1 or zone 2. Group 2 material: category 3G according to the ATEX 94/9/EC directive, usable in zone 2.
Oil and Gas
SULPHUR RECOVERY
The oil refining processes produce large quantities of waste gases with sulfur content. The sulfur must be recovered in order to meet environmental legislation that limits total sulfur emissions from the plant
Our blowers are used in these Sulfur Recovery Units (SRU) to supply the necessary primary air to the fumace reactor.
The Continental Industrie blowers can comply with the API 617 Norm 7 th edition with some minor deviations.
Industry
GALVANIZATION
To protect iron sheets from corrosion, manufacturers apply a galvanized coating to the sheets. For this, the iron sheet goes through a liquid galvanizing bath and re-emerges with a coating of non-uniform thickness. To leave only the necessary and sufficient thickness to protect the iron sheet, it is necessary to remove the excess by means of an air knife. Centrifugal blowers are used to supply air to these air knife nozzles. To obtain a good quality coating, it is imperative to supply an oil-free, non-polluted air stream that is constant and without pulsation. One of the characteristics of the Centrifugal Multistage Blower design is to supply oil-free, clean air without pulsation. Therefore, our blowers are preferred for this application.
Industry
AIR KNIFE
An air knife is a tool used to blow off liquid or debris from products as they move on conveyors. Air knives are normally used in manufacturing or as the first step in a recursive recycling process to separate lighter or smaller particles from other components for use in later or subsequent steps, post-manufacturing parts drying, conveyor cleaning, and part of component cleaning. The knife consists of a high-intensity, uniform sheet of laminar airflow, sometimes known as streamline flow. An industrial air knife is a pressurized air plenum containing a series of holes or continuous slots through which pressurized air exits in a laminar flow pattern. The exit air velocity then creates an impact air velocity onto the surface of whatever object the air is directed at.
Industry
CARBON BLACK
Carbon black is produced from a petroleum oil-based substance. The petroleum substance is fed into a specially adapted combustion chamber and heated to about 950ºC. This process "cracks" the petroleum to form a gas and carbon black powder.
These elements go through various filters, which extract the carbon black powder. This powder, when mixed with water, creates larger granules. These granules are then dried and conditioned.
This carbon black powder is used in a wide variety of products, including the manufacturing of pneumatic tires and printing inks.
Our blowers are used to supply air to the combustion chamber burners. The blowers' characteristics, in terms of simplicity, mechanical reliability, and performance curve, make our equipment a perfect fit for this process.
Environmental
DESALINATION
Salt water is desalinated to produce fresh water suitable for human consumption or irrigation. The traditional process used in these operations is vacuum distillation, essentially the boiling of water at less than atmospheric pressure and thus at a much lower temperature than normal.
This is because the boiling of a liquid occurs when the vapor pressure equals the ambient pressure, and vapor pressure increases with temperature. Thus, because of the reduced temperature, energy is saved. Multistage flash distillation, a leading method, accounted for 85% of worldwide production.
The principal competing processes use membranes to desalinate, principally applying reverse osmosis technology. Membrane processes use semipermeable membranes and pressure to separate salts from water.