Compressed Air Best Practices - September 2008 - (Page 37) Cp Compressed Air Industry FOOD PACKAGING & PROCESSING PACKAGING PROCE KA CESSING ESS | 09/08 | 3. HVAC — Factories exchange a lot of air. They bring in a lot of fresh air and pump out bad air. They use a lot of energy to heat the air. This is an expensive part of operating a factory. Learning how to manage this carefully is important. Compressed Air — Demand and supply-side audits Chillers, Heat Pumps, Hot Water — These systems are similar to compressed air in that there is little measurement and a lot of energy waste. Hot water going down the drain or running two chillers when you just need one, for example. Heat Recovery Solutions are the number one energy saving opportunity. Almost all plants in U.S. have winter heating provided by purchasing expensive natural gas. Simultaneously the same plants have cooling towers used to reject the heat in the machines they are operating. Capturing and using the waste heat is the opportunity. Solar and wind power generation is a topic we field a lot of questions on. Many facilities want to know if they should use these renewable energy sources to generate their own power. We provide them training to understand the elevated costs per kW these technologies currently have. We compare these costs to the much-lower costs per kW they can achieve by reducing energy consumption in their plants. Please describe your new Energy Solutions Center in San Antonio. The idea is to have a small working factory. We are creating an environment familiar to the people coming to the workshop. In the center of the factory is the classroom. We can show them the before and after for the projects and concepts we teach. This will strengthen the students’ belief and motivation that they can also do these energy-saving projects themselves. We have purchased the land and the architectural drawings are finished. The list of vendors is growing daily of who would like to have their equipment in this training facility. We are scheduled to start construction in the first quarter of 2009. 4. 5. Thank you for your time. For more information, please contact Thomas Mort, Thomas Mort Consulting, tel: 210-858-8454, email: tcmort@savingwithenergy.com, www.savingwithenergy.com 6. 7. www www.airb stpract ww .airbestpr t ices.co c com 37 http://www.savingwithenergy.com http://www.dekkervacuum.com http://www.airbestpractices.com
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