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Single-Stage
Oil-Free
Air-Cooled
Rotary Screw
Compressors
wide range, up to a 4:1 turndown
If reliability and ratio, with corresponding power
Technical
return on savings. Unloading valve systems Description
are also available.
investment are Service life: It is not unusual to find
General range: VM series up to
5,000 icfm and discharge pressure of
your main Aerzen screw compressors still in 51 psig (3.5 bar g); VML series up to
service after decades. Aerzen
criteria in designs and builds the machines to
9,000 icfm and continuous discharge
pressure of 30 psig (2.0 bar g); VML
selecting a be reliable and long-lived, so that can also serve as a very efficient dry
downtime and maintenance expense
single-stage, oil- are at a minimum.
vacuum pump for 70% or 21″Hg
vacuum, and in Aerzen pre-inlet
free rotary screw Air cooled: The compressor version, for 85% or 25″Hg vacuum
compressor, housing is air cooled for highest
compressor reliability.
Compressor stage: The core of the
package is the well known Aerzen
consider Reliable performance: Our steel VM or VML screw compressor
Aerzen’s Delta rotors are machined to final
tolerances without need for coatings, Housing: Air cooled
Screw packages. which are temporary in nature. Rotors: Asymmetric profile, VML
These simple, Modular packages: A wide range 3+4 and VM 4+6 lobes, dynamically
balanced to ISO 1940 G 2.5
of accessories is available within
sturdy machines the modular format of the Drive shaft rotation: Clockwise,
offer superior compressor package. Whatever the
options, installation of the factory
viewing the drive shaft
performance and assembled Delta Screw Compressor Sealing: At the rotor chambe r—
vented, restrictive, carbon rings type,
long service life. package is easy and requires no
special foundation. labyrinth seal; at the drive shaft —
labyrinth seals (no lip seals)
Simple operation and
A totally field-proven design: maintenance: The only routine Bearings: Anti-friction type
Aerzen has been making screw maintenance required consists of Gears: Both speed increasing and
compressors since 1943. inlet air filter, oil, and oil filter timing gears* are located on the
Thousands of them are performing changes, as well as safety cool, suction end; AGMA 12 quality
in the toughest applications around component checks. The controlled,
level, helical
the world: on land or at sea; at all closed loop, oil lubrication system, in VML
type, surface
latitudes and in all climates; in conjunction with the instrumentation, Non-Drive Rotor Drive Rotor
hardened and
environments from the cleanest to protects the machine from abnormal
operating conditions. All ground; service
the dustiest. factor per
maintenance points are readily
Dry compression: The conveying accessible from one side. The AGMA: 1.7
chamber is completely dry. maintenance can easily be carried minimum
Clearances between rotors are out by plant personnel. Lubrication
maintained by the timing gears.
Extremely low vibration level: system: Force
Since compression is accomplished
Precision machining, dynamic feed lubrication system, including:
without oil lubrication, there is no
balancing of the rotors, foot- positive displacement oil pump,
possibility of oil contamination of
mounted compressor stage, and the externally accessible, driven off the
the process stream. ability to accurately align the drive all female rotor shaft; aluminum plate
Optimum performance: With the contribute to a low vibration level. type, air cooled, oil cooler with drive-
Delta Screw Compressor series, Typical applications: Aerzen shaft-driven cooling fan; oil
Aerzen can tailor rotor profile, packages are used for reliable temperature control valve, oil overflow
operating speed, internal compression of clean air or neutral valve, cartridge type oil filter;
compression ratio, and a choice of gases for many diverse requirements, recommended oil is standard and can
accessories to individual including: water treatment; pneumatic be procured locally by the operator
requirements. And all with optimal conveying; glass production; air
energy efficiency. Materials of construction:
separation; ozone generation; ground-
water remediation; cement barge Housing: Grey cast iron GG25
Capacity control: With the use of
unloading; raw meal blending; harbor (equivalent to A278 class 40)
a frequency inverter drive, Aerzen
oil booms; deep water aeration; jet Rotors: Carbon steel C45N
can regulate the volume of the VM
engine starters; and gas-air mixing. (equivalent to AISI Type 1043)
and VML series efficiently over a
The VM and VML
Compression Process
VM
Non-Drive Rotor Drive Rotor
trouble-free
compression
of air. COOLING COOLING
HEIGHT
AIR AIR
The single-stage positive- INLET OUTLET