Improved Blowers Offer A Big Opportunity To Optimize Aeration

Wastewater treatment plant operators looking to boost their aeration process may find an optimal solution in a new generation of turbo blower products. Properly evaluating each of the three technologies — air foil bearing, magnetic bearing, and geared turbo — is key to choosing the best solution.

Air foil bearing blower technology introduced to the market within the past two years, for example, far exceeds performance and reliability levels of previous product lines. When air foil bearing blowers aren’t the most advanced, however, updated magnetic bearing blowers or traditional geared blowers might make better sense.