19 October 2016

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3.2  PNEUMATIC COMPONENTS

The word ‘pneuma’ comes from Greek and means breather wind. The word pneumatics is the study of air movement and its phenomena is derived from the word pneuma. Today pneumatics is mainly understood to means the application of air as a working medium in industry especially the driving and controlling of machines and equipment.
Pneumatics has for some considerable time between used for carrying out the simplest mechanical tasks in more recent times has played a more important role in the development of pneumatic technology for automation.
Pneumatic systems operate on a supply of compressed air which must be made available in sufficient quantity and at a pressure to suit the capacity of the system. When the pneumatic system is being adopted for the first time, however it wills indeed the necessary to deal with the question of compressed air supply.


The key part of any facility for supply of compressed air is by means using reciprocating compressor. A compressor is a machine that takes in air, gas at a certain pressure and delivered the air at a high pressure. Compressor capacity is the actual quantity of air compressed and delivered and the volume expressed is that of the air at intake conditions namely at atmosphere pressure and normal ambient temperature.

The compressibility of the air was first investigated by Robert Boyle in 1962 and that found that the product of pressure and volume of a particular quantity of gas.

PV = C            (or)   PıVı = P2V2

In this equation the pressure is the absolute pressured which for free is about 14.7 Psi and is of courage capable of maintaining a column of mercury, nearly 30 inches high in an ordinary barometer. Any gas can be used in pneumatic system but air is the mostly used system now a days.

3.2.1 PRODUCTION OF COMPRESSED AIR

Pneumatic systems operate on a supply of compressed air, which must be made available, in sufficient quantity and at a pressure to suit the capacity of the system. When pneumatic system is being adopted for the first time, however it wills indeed the necessary to deal with the question of compressed air supply.

The key part of any facility for supply of compressed air is by means using reciprocating compressor. A compressor is a machine that takes in air, gas at a certain pressure and delivered the air at a high pressure. Compressor capacity is the actual quantity of air compressed and delivered and the volume expressed is that of the air at intake conditions namely at atmosphere pressure and normal ambient temperature.
Clean condition of the suction air is one of the factors, which decides the life of a compressor. Warm and moist suction air will result in increased precipitation of condense from the compressed air. Compressor may be classified in two general types.

1.      Positive displacement compressor.
2.      Turbo compressor
Positive displacement compressors are most frequently employed for compressed air plant and have proved highly successful and supply air for pneumatic control application

3.2.2 PNEUMATIC SINGLE ACTING CYLINDER:
Pneumatic cylinder consist of   A) PISTON      B) CYLINDER

The cylinder is a Single acting cylinder one, which means that the air pressure operates forward and spring returns backward.  The air from the compressor is passed through the regulator which controls the pressure to required amount by adjusting its knob.  A pressure gauge is attached to the regulator for showing the line pressure. Then the compressed air is passed through the single acting 3/2 solenoid valve for supplying the air to one side of the cylinder.  One hose take the output of the directional Control (Solenoid) valve and they are attached to one end of the cylinder by means of connectors.  One of the outputs from the directional control valve is taken to the flow control valve from taken to the cylinder. The hose is attached to each component of pneumatic system only by connectors.  

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