An example is a window in a warm living room on a cold winter night. When the warm air inside the living room touches the cold glass, the temperature of the air in contact with the glass drops and water condenses out of the air on to the window. The bigger the temperature differential, the greater the condensation. Everything described above also happens inside compressed air pipework. Changes in temperature and pressure will affect how much water vapour the compressed air can carry before it decides to rain inside your pipework.
Air is air is air.
If you add these features together you end up with all of the principles which are used in compressed air dryers. The compressed air dryer market is served by five main types, these have been classified below. Just click on one for further information. Filter System Dryers. Return to Technical Database Index.