Powerex Medical Air Compressor Systems
Reliable, Oil-Less Medical Air Solutions Selected Around Your Facility
Your medical air system must consistently deliver the required air quality, pressure, capacity, and redundancy. Choosing the right compressor takes more than replacing your existing equipment with a similar model.
Lewis Systems helps hospitals, healthcare facilities, dental practices, laboratories, and universities select Powerex medical air compressor systems based on:
- Current and projected air demand
- Required system redundancy
- Available mechanical room space
- Noise and installation considerations
- Maintenance and service access
- Air treatment and monitoring requirements
- Applicable NFPA 99 requirements
From system selection and installation to preventative maintenance, repair, and future capacity planning, Lewis Systems supports your medical air system throughout its operating life.
Find the Right Medical Air Compressor for Your Facility
Powerex offers several medical air compressor technologies and configurations. The best option depends on how much air your facility needs, how demand changes throughout the day, where the equipment will be installed, and how the system will be maintained.
Lewis Systems can help you compare the available technologies and determine which system best fits your facility rather than simply matching the horsepower or configuration of your existing compressor.
Powerex Medical Enclosed Scroll Air Compressors
Reduce Noise and Equipment Footprint Without Sacrificing Reliability
Enclosed scroll systems combine oil-less scroll compressor technology with a sound-reducing cabinet. They are well suited for facilities where equipment noise, mechanical room space, and appearance are important considerations.
Powerex enclosed medical scroll systems offer:
- Completely oil-less scroll compressor technology
- Quiet operation for noise-sensitive environments
- A compact, enclosed system footprint
- Duplex, triplex, and quadplex configurations
- Integrated controls and air treatment options
- Serviceable cabinet designs
- NFPA 99-compliant system options
Powerex scroll compressors use fewer moving parts than many conventional compressor technologies, helping simplify maintenance while providing clean, oil-less air.
Best suited for: Hospitals, outpatient facilities, dental practices, laboratories, and medical buildings where noise and available space are important.
Powerex Medical Open Scroll Air Compressors
Maintain Easy Service Access and Flexible System Configuration
Open scroll systems provide the benefits of oil-less scroll technology in an accessible, skid-mounted arrangement. Their open design gives technicians direct access to the compressor pumps and system components during routine maintenance and service.
Powerex open scroll systems offer:
- Oil-less scroll compressor technology
- Quiet and energy-efficient operation
- Easy access to pumps and system components
- Low-maintenance compressor design
- Expandable skid-mounted configurations
- Multiplex options for capacity and redundancy
- Compact equipment layouts
- NFPA 99-compliant system options
Powerex identifies its medical open scroll systems as fully compliant with NFPA 99 and offers expandable skid-mounted configurations up to quadplex arrangements.
Best suited for: Facilities that want oil-less scroll performance with open access for service, maintenance, and future system planning.
Powerex Medical Oil-Less Reciprocating Air Compressors
Dependable Medical Air for a Wide Range of Facility Demands
Oil-less reciprocating compressor systems use piston technology to produce medical air without introducing compressor oil into the compression chamber.
These systems provide a proven option for healthcare facilities requiring dependable performance, flexible system sizing, and multiple-compressor redundancy.
Powerex oil-less reciprocating systems offer:
- Completely oil-less compression
- Composite piston technology
- Continuous bearing lubrication
- Duplex, triplex, and quadplex configurations
- Integrated air receivers and system controls
- Air treatment and monitoring options
- Flexible skid-mounted system arrangements
- NFPA 99-compliant system options
Powerex offers medical reciprocating compressor packages in duplex, triplex, and quadplex configurations, with system components designed to support medical air applications.
Best suited for: Hospitals and healthcare facilities seeking proven reciprocating technology with multiple configuration and capacity options.
Complete Medical Air System Support from Lewis Systems
Lewis Systems supports more than the initial equipment purchase.
Our medical air capabilities include:
- Existing system evaluations
- Medical air compressor selection
- System sizing and configuration
- Air treatment and controls
- Equipment installation
- System startup support
- Preventative maintenance
- Compressor repair and troubleshooting
- Replacement parts and components
- Capacity expansions
- Controls and monitoring upgrades
- Long-term replacement planning
With locations across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, Lewis Systems provides regional equipment and service support for hospitals, laboratories, dental facilities, universities, and other healthcare environments.
Frequently Asked Questions About Medical Air Compressors
A medical air compressor is part of a dedicated system designed to provide clean, dry air for approved healthcare applications. Medical air systems typically include oil-less compression, dryers, filtration, receivers, controls, alarms, monitoring, and redundant compressors.
A general industrial compressor may be designed to operate tools or production equipment and may not include the air treatment, monitoring, redundancy, and system controls required for medical air.
Medical air compressors generate the compressed air supplied through a hospital’s dedicated medical gas pipeline. Medical air may support applications such as respiratory care, mechanical ventilation, anesthesia equipment, and nebulizer treatments.
Hospitals may also use separate instrument air systems for pneumatic surgical tools and other approved medical support equipment.
Powerex offers medical air compressor systems designed to meet applicable NFPA 99 requirements. Available options include medical scroll, reciprocating, rotary screw, and instrument air systems.
Medical air system sizing should consider current and peak air demand, system diversity, required pressure, compressor redundancy, air treatment, future growth, and applicable project requirements.
Lewis Systems evaluates these factors rather than recommending a replacement based only on the horsepower or capacity of the existing compressor.
Yes. Lewis Systems provides medical air equipment selection, installation, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, system upgrades, and replacement planning.
The exact project scope can be tailored around the facility, equipment, contractor responsibilities, and installation schedule.
