8 Pneumatic System Applications, You Didn’t Know Existed Around You

From Dental Drills to large industrial off-loads, pneumatic systems and pumps are used in most mechanical industries. The existence is not only in the industrial or mechanical use but also in many things happening around us daily.

• HVAC enabled homes: If you think, computer based HVAC (Heater, Ventilator & Air conditioner) control is the most efficient in saving your electricity bills. May be you are right. But, the basis of invention of HVAC was way back in in 1950, when engineers used pneumatic pumps to control the moisture, damping and temperature throughout the home. The pneumatic injection was used to sense the change and give instructions through logics accordingly.
• A Vacuum Cleaner: Probably, tons of vacuum cleaner exist in markets and they all work on one mechanics i.e. pneumatics. Pneumatic pump creates a vacuum dy breathing out the gas molecules in the storage tank, which automatically breathes in every particle that comes in front.
• Music Instruments: Even some of the saxophones and pianos also use air compression to produce soothing sounds. The compression is decided by pressing the nodes or keys and injecting the air simultaneously.
• Weighing Machine: There can’t be a simpler application of pneumatic system. Weights are proportional to the amount of pressure that builds with it. The proportions and the pressure are calculated to tell you the exact weight. Due to better merit, these are even used in weighing jewelry ornaments.
• Air Brakes: Those compressed sounds when you see large trucks or buses breaking gradually on road are the sound of pneumatic cylinders breathing the air in and out to create a force on brakes. This gives a streamlined motion by eradicating abrupt braking systems, which used to be a direct contact between brakes and tyres.
• Medical usage: Air compression is also used in barostat that can create a right amount of pressure for delicate practices and operations.
• Pneumatic motors: Pneumatic motors are largely used in automobiles. The compression and expansion of the cylinder are systematically converted into linear or zigzag motion to run the vehicle.
• Loaders and compressors: Mainly, the usage of pneumatic systems are either raising weights or compressing or even deforming some elements. For example, the bigger junkyard owners uses pneumatic press to deform cars into a shape, they need for their business.

Most of the Cargo ships and mega transporters uses pneumatic pump action for sealing, off loading and loading heavy materials. The power of the compression is controlled through varying pressure to achieve the mechanism effect.

The Reliability, cost-effectiveness and long life of a pneumatic pump or machine makes it one of the most used technqiue of mechanical industry. Advance applications are actually a hybrid result of pneumatics and digital control processing. So, expect more pneumatic system applications to be surfaced in the future.