Treatment Plant Operator: Integrally geared blowers provide an efficient and low-maintenance solution

Treatment Plant Operator: Integrally geared blowers provide an efficient and low-maintenance solution

The recent article in Treatment Plant Operator magazine highlights the efficiency, durability and low maintenance of Inovair’s geared centrifugal design. Glen Roderique, Inovair Sales Engineer, is interviewed about Inovair’s technology in this article. During his 10 years with Inovair, Mr. Roderique worked first in a mechanical engineering role performing product development and then moved into a sales role. Glen has provided technical leadership for Accessible Technologies, Inovair’s parent company, for nearly 25 years, and for the past 10 years has been focused on Inovair’s blower packages for wastewater treatment and aircraft ground support equipment. As noted in this article, Inovair’s "Integrally geared … blowers provide an efficient and low-maintenance solution for wastewater treatment plant aeration”. Additionally, a component of superior reliability relative to air bearing turbo blowers is that "the [Inovair] blowers use oil-film bearings on the high-speed shaft so that the bearings never contact the shaft”.

Read full article HERE.