Optimise Your Abrasive Blasting - How to Save Over 30% of your Total Blasting Costs

In this video series we show you how you can optimise your abrasive blasting setup to save time and dramatically reduce the overall cost of your job.
This video is a summary of the Optimise Your Abrasive Blasting series, showing you the key points to help save you time and money.
You can watch any part of the series at any time to get the full story. Links to all episodes below:
Optimise Your Abrasive Blasting - 1. What is an Abrasive Blast System? : • Optimise Your Abrasive...
Optimise Your Abrasive Blasting - 2. What Affects your Blast Efficiency? :
• Optimise Your Abrasive...
Optimise Your Abrasive Blasting - 3. How Air Pressure and Air Flow Affect Your Blast :
• Optimise Your Abrasive...
Optimise Your Abrasive Blasting - 4. How your Setup Affects the Project Cost :
• Optimise Your Abrasive...
When it comes to dry abrasive blasting, the efficiency of your blasting setup is often measured by how much area you can cover in a given time, and the amount of abrasive you use to do it.
0:00 - Introduction
1:10 - What is an Abrasive Blast System?
2:15 - What Affects your Blast Efficiency?
2:37 - Dynamic Pressure Losses
4:53 - How Air Pressure and Air Flow Affect Your Blast
7:06 - How your Setup Affects the Project Cost
In this video series, we show you how you can optimise your blasting setup to help you save time and potentially reduce the overall cost of your job by almost 30%, saving over four hours in blast time alone every 100 meters squared. To show how this is possible, we talk about what an abrasive blast system is, the variables that affect the efficiency of your blasting process, how to reduce dynamic pressure loss, the difference between air pressure and air flow, and how changing your blast setup affects the overall cost of your job.
In this video we go over the key points of the series that result in us finding a blasting setup that can save you both time and money - but remember you can always watch any part, at any time if you want the full story.
In part 1, we cover what an abrasive blast system is. Typically, an air compressor feeds air to an Abrasive Blast Machine, where the high pressure air is mixed with the abrasive media, which then travels along the blast hose, and out of the nozzle at the end; hitting the surface being blasted, creating a surface profile for painting, removing any rust or existing coatings in the process.
The main goal of an abrasive blast system is to provide the abrasive with as much energy of movement, also known as kinetic energy, as possible. So how do we give the abrasive more kinetic energy? This is discussed in-detail in part 2, by looking at the key variables that affect the efficiency of your blasting process, addressing the effects of air quality (air humidity in particular), and choice of abrasive. We also look in more detail at how to reduce dynamic pressure losses.
In part 3, we look at the remaining variables that affect your blast efficiency, which include the importance of finding the optimum setting on your abrasive media valve, to get the right mix of air and abrasive.
The remaining variables; the compressor pressure setting, the often misunderstood compressor air capacity (typically measured in CFM or l/s), and your choice of blast nozzle; are all linked, and getting the best combination of these settings is vital.
In part 4 we find out how much changing your setup can save you through a series of Elcometer-commissioned tests undertaken by an independent blasting company, with more than 30 years of industry experience.
In this video series we will be showing you how you can optimise your blasting. To do that, we will cover what an abrasive blast system is and what it is trying to do, discover the variables that affect the efficiency of your blasting process, how to reduce dynamic pressure losses, explore the difference between air pressure and air flow and how it affects your blasting setup; and show how changing your setup can dramatically affect the overall cost of your job, as well as how we’ve proved it.
For more information on the Elcometer Blast Machines, Valves, ancillary equipment, Personal Protection Equipment, and our complete range of spare and replacement parts - please contact Elcometer at [e-mail] or visit our website: blast.elcometer.com/
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