Abstract: A compressed air supply apparatus includes an air compressor for compressing air to at least atmospheric pressure, a tank for storing the compressed air and supplying the compressed air, via a supply port, to various devices that use the compressed air as a working fluid, a first pipe that connects the air compressor to the tank, a heat pump including an evaporator for cooling at least a part of the first pipe, a selection device for selecting whether a cool air cooled by the evaporator, which is fluidly distinct from the compressed air, is introduced into a vehicle interior or discharged outside of the vehicle interior, and a control device configured to control the selection device so that the cool air is introduced into the vehicle interior when an air conditioner switch is turned ON and discharged outside of the vehicle interior when the air conditioner switch is turned OFF.

Abstract: A compressed air supply apparatus has: an air compressor that compresses an air; and a tank that stores a compressed air discharged from the air compressor and has a supply port to supply the compressed air. Furthermore, at least a part of a piping through which the air compressor communicates with the tank, is cooled by an evaporator of a heat pump of an air conditioner. A high temperature compressed air discharged from the air compressor is cooled by the evaporator to a temperature at which an oil content and a water content are condensed or a lower temperature, so that the oil content and the water content are condensed and adhere to an inner wall of the tank and are removed.