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In The Winery

He pointed to a research and development team Randy Peccia is Product Sales Manager for
whose members have decades of experience know- Parker Hannifin in its Industrial Gas Filtration and
ing how to deliver innovation without making it Generation Division, based in Lancaster, New York.
complicated. He explained how both membrane and PSA tech-
nologies allow users to generate on-site nitrogen
“We specialize in systems designed, sized and gas with a compressed air source.
built for the correct purity, pressure and flow for
each application,” said Montesi. “Our philosophy “Membrane technology uses bundles of hol-
is to keep the simple processes simple and make low-fiber contained within a tube. The fiber walls
complex processes less complex. This way of think- selectively separate compressed air by permeating
ing has formed the basis for our product reputa- oxygen, water vapor and other waste gases to the
tion–safe, continuous, flexible systems that provide atmosphere,” Peccia said. “Nitrogen molecules are
cost-saving, reliable gas generation.” retained within the walls of the fibers resulting
in the delivery of nitrogen gas of 90-99% purity
Parker Hannifin to the application. Some membranes are capable
of achieving 99.5% purity. With no moving parts,
Parker Hannifin is another global industry membrane modules are a cost-effective, reliable
front-runner manufacturing compressed air treat- and safe solution to on-site nitrogen gas genera-
ment and gas generation products. The company tion.
produces a wide range of membrane module and
pressure swing adsorption nitrogen gas generators. “PSA is a regenerative technology that uses col-
It’s been selling nitrogen gas generators to the wine umns filled with carbon molecular sieve to sep-
industry for three decades. arate compressed air,” he said. “In the ‘online’
columns, oxygen and other waste gases are selec-

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