Compressed Air Cost & Savings Calculator
Inputs
Small
typical
Medium
typical
Large
typical
Custom
Your values
Base
Total compressor power
kW
Electricity price
€/kWh
Avg. production load
%
Avg. idle load
%
Operating profile
Shift operation
1 shift (8 h/day)
2 shifts (16 h/day)
3 shifts (24 h/day)
Custom…
Weekend
Yes (7 days/week)
Custom: operating hours/year
h/year
Note
Custom overrides shift and weekend settings.
Operating hours
–
Off-hours (out of 8760)
–
Runtime
Baseline: extra % of off-hours
%
Example: 5% of off-hours run additionally.
Fixed additional runtime scenario
None
+12 Saturdays (shift change)
After service: 8 weeks 24/7
Holidays: not shut down for 10 days
Permanent 24/7 (all off-hours)
Fixed hours are added on top of the baseline.
Idle share (optimizable)
%
Total extra hours
–
h/year
Share / fixed
–
·
–
Leakage
Leakage share
%
Leakage optimization
%
System pressure
Current pressure
bar
Target pressure
bar
Pressure effect
%/bar
Costs
Initial system cost
€
Annual system cost
€/year
Details (breakdown / formulas)
minCost
= kw · loadProd · minHours · price
idleHoursPct
= offHours · runOpt
idleHoursFix
= scenario (fixed)
idleHours
= clamp(idleHoursPct + idleHoursFix, 0..offHours)
idleCost
= kw · loadOff · idleHours · price
Leakage
= minCost · leakPct · leakOpt
Idle savings potential
= idleCost · idlePct
Pressure
= minCost · Δbar · perBar
Leakage savings:
–
€
Idle savings potential:
–
€
Pressure savings:
–
€
Total gross savings:
–
€
Net year 1:
–
€
Net from year 2:
–
€
Results
€ EUR
$ USD
Energy cost (year)
–
€
Gross savings (year)
–
€
Net year 1
–
€
Net from year 2
–
€
Initial payback (rough)
–
months
Extra hours (total)
–
h/year
operating hours:
–
· off-hours:
–
· extra hours:
–
production cost:
–
€
· extra cost:
–
€