How to Use Spray Technology for Sustainability

Controlling waste and lowering energy costs are several factors that companies pursue to make operations efficient. One area to focus on when seeking facility efficiency is improving spray technology. Sustainable spray nozzles help to lower water consumption, reduce energy usage, and prolong the life of equipment. Here at Lechler, we offer spray technology products and systems for companies in chemical, food & beverage, power generation, and parts manufacturing industries when they are seeking sustainable spray solutions for plant operations.

How Spray Technology Supports Sustainability

Spray nozzle systems customized to your operations can ensure that they work to improve your workstations seamlessly. Precision engineered nozzles allow for the right droplet sizes to be used based on the application when using low water pressure rates. By providing an even distribution of droplets targeting the desired area, the nozzles can perform their specific task at hand whether it involves tank cleaning, gas cleansing, cooling, firefighting, or pollution control.

The use of free-flowing nozzles also assists with sustainability by providing anti-clogging properties. This aspect is ideal for situations where you may be using liquids with additives or slurry-type solutions that often create clogs in traditional nozzle units. Lechler sustainable spray nozzles allow for the free passage of liquids, lowering the wear-and-tear to nozzles and improving product longevity.

Real-World Applications of Sustainable Spray Technology

Sustainable spray technology can be used in a variety of applications, including cleaning, pollution control, cooling, dust suppression, and fire protection. Companies that are heavily water-dependent for their operations can see cost, energy, and production benefits when installing new spray technology into their workstations.

Cleaning applications are common for several industries, such as food and beverage, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, electronics, and chemical. Selecting a nozzle with the appropriate spray pattern ensures that both cleaning fluids and rinse water can quickly rinse off equipment, storage tanks, containers, and other processes by reaching every nook and cranny during the first cleaning procedure. This process lowers the number of cleanings that have to be performed to accomplish the job and help conserve water resources.

For pollution control, sustainable spray nozzles target hazardous combustible pollutants, gases, and other contaminants from processes and the work environment. The nozzles provide better control of droplet sizes and water distribution techniques to further remove these contaminants from combustion operations. By removing pollutants such as SoX and NoX, spray nozzles improve exhaust flue quality to help protect the outdoor environment and lower the impact of climate change.

Companies may require cooling and temperature control operations to lower the heat from equipment, products, and work areas. Spray technologies allow for temperature and humidity control by adjusting the droplet sizes to provide very fine mist to large droplets. Having greater control over droplet sizes provides versatility to direct the cooling techniques to boost productivity and increase safety throughout the facility.

Fire Protection: Operations that deal with combustible and/or flammable materials and operations require fire protection systems to contain and suppress flames. Spray technologies can come in several forms, from water walls and misters to fire deluge units and toxic gas mitigation systems. Investing in the appropriate fire protection spray nozzles helps to keep workers and operations safe during accidents and emergencies.

Key Benefits of Spray Technology for Sustainability

Automation for Processes: Sustainable spray technology helps companies introduce automation into their operations to take over redundant, manual processes. By automating processes, companies can reduce waste, speed up productivity, and lower human error.

Enhance Efficiency: Spray technologies provide efficiency factors to processes by providing more control over water pressure rates, liquid distribution, and spray direction. You can adjust and manage resources to improve production lines while saving on water usage. The spray nozzles are designed to seamlessly and easily integrate with existing processes for fast installation with less downtime.

Cost Reduction: Spray nozzles are designed to lower costs by providing further control over flow rates and water usage. This, in turn, allows you to lower operational costs by conserving both water and energy. You may also see cost reductions by automating cleaning, pollution control, and cooling processes with automated spray nozzle systems. Your workers can then refocus their time and energy on other productive tasks, leading to improved productivity and lower labor costs.

Innovations Driving Sustainable Spray Solutions

As technology advances, spray nozzle companies are rapidly developing new ways in creating sustainable spray solutions that further align to specific industrial operations. By providing nozzles in varying spray patterns, flow rate designs, orifices, and free flowing properties, companies have a greater range of spray solutions engineered and tailored for their operations. Site assessments provide clarity regarding the types of operations that are present. Then we can provide more concise spray solutions and automated spray nozzle technology systems.

Integrating Spray Technology into Your Sustainability Goals

You should first evaluate present operations for ways in which the integration of spray technologies could provide sustainability benefits. You can also consider how spray technologies may be further implemented into future production lines when considering future expansion. Then consult Lechler engineers as we can perform onsite assessments of present operations, plant audits to identify areas that could take advantage of sustainable spray technologies, and other services. We can also provide simulations using computational fluid dynamics to demonstrate how the spray nozzles can be fully optimized. Then we can design, engineer, test, and install spray nozzles into your operations.

Achieve Industrial Sustainability with Lechler USA

Industrial sustainability can come in many forms depending on your operations and goals toward efficiency and productivity. Whether you are looking for ways to lower costs, improve product longevity, or help the environment, sustainable spray nozzles offered by Lechler USA are designed to help automate processes, improve production rates, and reduce energy and water waste. We can design and engineer the spray water technologies and systems that are specific to your operations to lower unnecessary downtime as you can see immediate results. Reach out to us today.