Air compressor question

[Illini Pete]

Hey Guys,

I'm finishing up my shed which is divided into a 24 x 36 shop and a 32 x 36 garage. On the shop side I'm planning to partition off a little utility room, may 4 x 6 or so where I have my electrical panel, and where I plan to have a small hot water heater and a compressor, 60 or 80 gal upright. I plan to build 2x4 stud walls with OSB on the outside and insulate with foam board. A main objective is to avoid the noise from the compressor. What kind of ventilation should I provide to keep the compressor cool? The room will be in a corner so I could do something through the walls. The ceiling will go only up 8 ft or so, 2 ft below the bottom chord of the trusses so I don't want anything for ventilation going through the roof.

Any opinions will be appreciated!
Pete

 

[Zeke]

One high and one low.

 

[CNGsaves]

Let's see what ya got . . . pictures are always good.

Might want seperate spaces for water and electric panel as those don't mix well.

 

[Ryf]

as I just posted elsewhere lol

best way to quiet it would be route your intake outside, then a major the chunk of noise will be removed. other ways would be a intake silencer (like a exhaust pipe muffler for the intake) it normalizes the harmonic noise to be less annoying.

if you vent it and route the intake outside try to not put them on the same wall if possible.

 

[Falcon67]

There are a lot of threads on venting a compressor closet here. I read a bunch and made lots of plans. Bought a vent fan, some controls, etc. When it came down to it, I thought "You knowm, this thing hardly runs at all and when it does it's maybe 60~120 seconds. How much heat can it really make?" And I threw all that vent **** in a box somewhere. Just saying - don't overthink the issue.

This is it - nothing to it. The black stuff is Quiet Brace and that cover is hinged, ,so if I do decide to shoot paint or otherwise tax the compressor I can swing that open and point a fan in the closet. It's not quiet so much on this side as the sound bounces around in the closet and exits out the top vent. Putting some fiberglass on the ceiling of the closet helped that. The back side is a little fiberglass, some Quiet Brace and OSB. You can barely hear it on the other side.

 

[Rickster55]

Hey Guys,

I'm finishing up my shed which is divided into a 24 x 36 shop and a 32 x 36 garage.
Pete

In New York, that is NOT considered a shed!

 

[Illini Pete]

Let's see what ya got . . . pictures are always good.

Might want seperate spaces for water and electric panel as those don't mix well.

Thanks but I haven't built it yet