Glossary TermsAs in any highly focused industry, the terminology surrounding compressed air and gas treatment can be confusing to the non-specialist. To better serve Van Air customers, Van Air distributors, and those wishing to better understand compressed air and gas treatment, a glossary of common industry terms is below. |
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- 10BF
- 4th Utility
- Absolute Pressure
- Absorbent Desiccant
- Absorption
- Accumulator
- ACFM
- Activated Alumina
- Adsorbent Desiccant
- Adsorption
- After filter
- Aftercooler
- Air Receiver
- Ambient
- ANSI
- Approach Temperature
- ASME
- Atmosphere
- Automatic Drain Valve
- Blower Purge Desiccant Dryer
- Borosilicate Glass
- Break Point
- Brownian Motion
- BTEX
- BTU
- CAGI
- CDA
- Centrifugal Blower
- CFM
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Co-Current Regeneration
- Coalescing Filter
- Compression Ratio
- Condense
- Contact Time
- Counter Current Regeneration
- CV Factor
- Cycle Hold Feature
- Cycle Saver
- Cycle Time
- Cycling Refrigerated Dryer
- Deliquescent
- Deliquescent Desiccant
- Deliquescent Dryer
- Depth of Penetration Filter
- Desiccant
- Dew Point
- Dew Point Depression
- Diffusion
- Digester Gas
- Dry-o-Lite
- Dynamic Adsorption Capacity
- Emcon II
- Equilibrium Adsorption Capctiy
- Evaporator
- Exhaust Purge Dryer
- Failure to Switch Alarm
- Float Drain
- Flood Level Control
- Grain of Moisture
- Heated Purge Desiccant Dryer
- Heatless Desiccant Dryer
- Hot Gas By-pass Valve
- Hydrothermal Aging
- Hygroscopic
- Inertial Capture
- Inlet Transfer Valve
- Instrument Quality Air
- Interception
- Interlock Valve Logic
- Internally Heated Desiccant Dryer
- Isothermal
- Landfill Gas
- Latent Heat
- Low BTU
- Lubricated Compressor
- Mass Transfer Zone
- MAWP
- MCF
- MCFD
- Medium BTU
- Micron
- Mist Eliminator
- MMCF
- MMCFD
- Moisture Separator
- Moisture Specification
- Molecular Sieve
- MSDS
- Natural Gas Hydrate (Gas Hydrate)
- NEMA
- Non-Cycling Refrigerated Dryer
- Non-Lubricated Compressor
- Oil Vapor
- Outlet Transfer Valve
- Particulate Filter
- Pipeline Quality Gas
- Pipescale
- Point-of-Use
- Pre-heater / Re-heater
- Prefilter
- Pressure Dew Point (PDP)
- Pressure Drop
- Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA)
- PSI
- PSID
- PSIG
- Purge Air
- Purge Exhaust Muffler
- Purge Gas
- Purge Loss
- Refrigerant
- Refrigerated Dryer
- Regeneration
- Regenerative Dryer
- Relative Humidity
- Safety Relief Valve
- Saturation
- SCFM
- Sensible Heat
- Sight Window/Sight Glass
- Siloxane
- SP
- Suction line heat exchanger
- Superficial Gas Velocity
- Thermal Swing Adsorpotion (TSA)
- Three 100s
- Twin Tower Dryer
- Zero Loss Drain Valve
