Air Compressor Piping Layout Questions

[sniper]

I am no expert here by any means but here is my advice. Is this in a garage or a shop?



If you need that slope to get the air to a place in the garage where you want it then use it.
Otherwise, You can run a vertical right out of the tank with a 90 at the tank fitting then back down with stub and just a ball valve, before you start the 10' slope. That would help a good bit with water removing moisture.
But if you only have it to try and remove moisture, then you are better off having it go straight vertical for a couple of runs, up down up down then just have the air outlet closer to the tank.

Let gravity help pull moisture out of your air as much as possible.


I actually have 60 foot of pipe that runs up and down vertically before heading out to the shop loop. On the bottom of the 6 runs, there are 3 ball valves. A stub if you will, 1 in each set of verticals. Then it runs up into a seperator and an ingersol portable dessciant dryer. It has been this way for the last 4 years and a minut amount of moisture, if any, over that time has made it to an outlet.

[JMarsa]

Thanks for the reply.

It's a bit confusing given the shape and constraints of my home shop. I have two 14' wide bays next to each other with a compressor room directly behind one of them. The compressor room ceiling is only about 8' tall and the fitting on the tank is about 30" off the ground so there's not much room to go vertical first. There's also an elevation difference as the compressor room is an add-on and it 1-1/2 concrete blocks lower than the main area.

I am trying to allow for cooling so instead of going through the closest wall I made a long run before going vertical. I thought that the length would provide a cooling area and that sloping it would help with draining the condensate and that the stub would act as a drain. I'm not making a loop or ring around the shop though, instead I'll have a hose reel at the end of the run.

Should I add some more vertical runs after my corner transition for better cooling? Currently I only have about 25 feet of black pipe used.



--JMarsa