Potential Free Air Dryer / Filter

[65Stang]

I most likely have the option of procuring a ThermoZorb Modular (TZM) Heatless Regenerative Dryer and four filters for a nominal cost ($0). I have looked the model numbers up, but there is very little info that I have found that fully explain how this unit operators and how I could potentially tie it into my system.

This is the dryer.
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This is one of the filters, they are the same it appears although there are two others that have slightly different model numbers.
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Any idea or input on these units? Worth getting (assuming YES). I am assuming it would not be cheap to go and get new ones.

 

[930dreamer]

Here are two pics of an IR-TZM65 from eBay, that's good for 0-65 cfm.

 

[ddawg16]

And you have not picked them up yet? You're wasting time asking us? Dude? Really? Your next post had better be "I got them".....to which we will respond..."YOU ****"

 

[930dreamer]

IR pdf;

http://www.ingersoll-rand.gr/downloads/at_thermosorb_airdryer.pdf

 

[65Stang]

Can't get them just yet, hopefully in a month or so.

Thanks for the info sheet link, was looking for exactly that! Looks like I could incorporate this into my setup. Once I do gat it, I'll have to review as to the best way to set it up, where in the line, etc.

 

[stonesfan68]

Make sure that you have an after-cooler on your compressor or that desiccant won't last very long at all.

 

[Fixnair]

I don't know how big your compressor is but you should know a regenerative desiccant dryer uses dry compressed air from one tower to purge through the other tower to regenerate it. This purge rate is about 15% of the dryer capacity. In this case it will consume around 16 SCFM to purge. This purge is constant, as long as the dryer is turned on. That equates to about a 3HP compressor.it will be pretty expensive for a homeowner.

 

[65Stang]

Interesting...
I have a 60 gallon (with additional 20 gallon inline tank) Puma compressor. Single stage, three cylinder.

Perhaps the dryer will work well when painting a car, but not so much when doing other standard tasks such as running blast cabinet or angle grinder.

Regardless, I'll pick it up if I can then check in here to see what I can actually do with it.