Why Use an Air Booster? Standard compressed air systems in industrial facilities are typically designed for pressures of 80 to 130 psig. When higher pressures are required it is very effective to use a portion of your plant air and apply an air booster to obtain the desired pressure. Other methods of acquiring higher pressure air such as stand-alone air compressors, air amplifiers and increasing the pressure of the entire plant are more costly and less efficient. Simple Is Better All you need is electricity and low pressure air. Air boosters take air from your existing network and compress it to a higher pressure. Think of an air booster as a second or third stage to your existing air compressor. No Air Loss What you put in is what you get out. Unlike pneumatically driven air amplifiers that use up to 60% of your air flow to power the machine, our air boosters are electrically driven. Size Does Matter Sometimes smaller is better. Hycomp air boosters are physically smaller and use less horsepower than traditional stand-alone air compressors. A smaller machine makes yoursystem less expensive to purchase, install, operate and maintain.