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| 01/09 Focus Industry ENERGY REBATES | AIR STANDARDS ISO 11011 Standard ISO is also developing a standard for compressed air system assessments, ISO 11011. Technical Committee (TC) 118 deals with “compressors and pneumatic tools, machines and equipment” and is in charge of developing this standard. Sub-committee (SC) 6 is tasked with this project. Development of this standard began several years ago in an effort to give users some idea of what a “competent examiner” should be doing in order to complete a proper assessment of a compressed air system. This is basically the same motivation as that of the U.S. standard. The British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) had already seen that the lack of a standard allowed people of varying degrees of expertise to promote just about any level of system examination as a compressed air system assessment. BCAS has developed a training and certification program to address this issue and has been very involved in the development of 11011. In the fall of 2007, the Compressed Air and Gas Institute (CAGI) hosted a meeting of SC 6 in Phoenix, Arizona. This meeting was scheduled to follow a regular CAGI meeting and several CAGI members stayed to attend the SC 6 meeting. This was the first time that many of the CAGI participants had seen the draft of the ISO assessment standard. At that point, the proposed standard was only a few pages long and covered only a very limited scope. Since it was clear that the U.S. would also be developing a standard, the U.S. participants pushed to expand the scope of the ISO standard to at least get close to what was being done by the ASME team. By the end of the SC 6 meeting, the original ISO proposal was scrapped and work began on a more comprehensive draft. A new draft of 11011 was circulated to members in 2008 for comment. Comments were gathered by CAGI in the summer of 2008 and provided to ANSI to deliver to ISO. The U.S. comments were more extensive than the draft standard and were intended to guide the ISO standard in the same direction as the ASME/ANSI standard being developed in the U.S. At a meeting of TC 118 in the fall of 2008, SC 6 adopted virtually all of the U.S. comments. A second committee draft international standard will be circulated soon for additional comments and further refinement. It is now a goal of SC 6 to develop a standard that is close enough to the U.S. standard that an assessment done to one standard will provide the same results as an assessment done to the other standard. The U.S. standard should be in final form by mid-2009. It then has to go through the voting cycle to become an ANSI standard. The current target date for release of the standard is early in 2010. The ISO standard is still a Committee Draft and will go through another round of commenting in early 2009. These comments will be discussed at the next meeting of SC 6 in Phoenix in November of 2009. At that time, SC 6 will decide whether to keep 11011 as a Committee Draft for further rework or to release it for wider review as a Draft International Standard. The target date for release of 11011 is 2010-2011. For more information, please contact Wayne Perry at email: wayne.perry@kaeser.com or visit www.kaeser.com CO2 O ISO 10111 and ASME EA-4-2008 are being written to help users manage their total energy consumption. 18 www.airbestpractices.com kW http://www.kaeser.com http://www.airbestpractices.com

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Compressed Air Best Practices - January 2009 Contents From the Editor Utility-Air News Compressed Air Audit of the Month: A Nitrogen Audit at Boeing Air Standards: New ASME & ISO Standards for Compressed Air System Assessments Energy Rebates Assist Industrial Sustainability Initiatives Seven Sustainability Projects for Industrial Energy Savings: Project #1: Lighting Optimization Minimum Supply Wire Size Recommendations for Compressor Packages Utilizing Variable Frequency Drives The Pneumatic Advantage: Pneumatics Bring Precision and Reliability to Furniture Industry Specialist Personal Productivity: Is Afternoon Fatigue Influencing Your Job Performance? The Explanation and Some Solutions. Resources for Energy Engineers: Training Calendar & Product Picks Wall Street Watch Advertiser Index Classifieds

Compressed Air Best Practices - January 2009

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