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Double-acting Reciprocating Air Compressors for P.E.T. Bottle Blowing
By Donald J. Oitker
Most P.E.T. bottle-blowing machines require anywhere from 550 psig (38 barg) to 580 psig (40 barg) and an air flow of 247 cfm FAD (420 m3/hr) to 3700 cfm FAD (6290 m3/hr). The air compressor technology used most prevalently for this application is the double-acting, oil-free, water-cooled, reciprocating air compressor. With the higher pressures and air flows that are required, the P.E.T. bottle blowing market is a strong niche market for the double-acting oil-free reciprocating (piston) compressors.  
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PET Bottle Blowing Efficiency
Compressed Air Best Practices® Interviewed Dean Smith, iZ Systems.
The PET industry is in a state of flux right now. A number of new bottle blowing facilities are being brought on-line. They are in the “discovery” phase right now as they realize how challenging the required compressed air systems are to manage – from an energy efficiency standpoint. The average high-volume stretch blow molder (SBM) working with PET usually has 2,000 to 4,000 horsepower of installed air compressors with the related energy costs running between $1 to $4 million per year. This typically represents 35-40% of the facilities’ total energy bill.
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Bottler Best Practices in California
By Creg Fenwick and Kyle Harris, Accurate Air Engineering
Bottling companies and breweries, in California, are benefiting from a three-step system assessment process aimed at reducing the electrical consumption of their compressed air systems. The three-step process reduces compressed air demand in bottling lines by focusing on open blowing and idle equipment, and then improves the specic power (reducing the energy consumption) of the air compressors.
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Improved Modified Atmosphere Packaging Technology
By Krista Ramsey
CVP System, Inc.’s MasterPACKer Eco+™ Breaks Down Barriers to Cost and Energy Savings Through Improved Modified Atmosphere Packaging Technology Worldwide, Tesco, a global grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, U.K., initiated the demand for modified atmosphere packaging technology in the early 70s. It became one of the first grocers to move away from employing an onsite butcher to using a central processing/distribution system.
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Compressed Air Efficiency Opportunities in the Plastics Industry
By Dean E. Smith, iZ Systems for the Compressed Air Challenge®
As in most industrial categories, compressed air is critical to the operations of a plastics plant whether it is blow molding, injection molding, or other processes. The opportunities to improve supply side (compressor room) efficiency are similar to all industrial compressed air systems, but are even more prevalent in some plastics facilities, especially blow molding.
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AMCOR PET Packaging
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Preserving the planet and sustaining business growth work hand-in-hand at Amcor's PET Packaging business. Product design plays a key role.
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Bottling System Air Recovery at NPE 2009
Compressed Air Best Practices
The NPE2009 international plastics showcase was held June 22-26 in Chicago’s McCormick Place. While attendance was down from NPE2006, the preliminary total of visitor registrations numbered 44,000. Sustainability and energy efficiency was a prominent topic in the booths of exhibitors. Manufacturers of compressed air and injection molding equipment had many developments with Sustainability to show the visitors to NPE2009.
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Dr. Pepper Snapple Group
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DPS is an integrated beverage business that serves its customers and consumers via a broad and flexible distribution network.
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PepsiCo Reduces Electricity Consumption by 9%
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In 2007, PepsiCo agreed on rigorous, corporation-wide global metrics to help us better track and understand our environmental footprint. Our goal is to reduce water consumption by 20 percent, reduce electricity consumption 20 percent, and reduce fuels consumption by 25 percent per unit of production by 2015 as compared to our 2006 consumption.
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Coca-Cola Energy Efficiency
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The Coca-Cola Company uses energy and contributes to emissions through energy consumption at our offices and bottling plants. In our bottling plants around the world, we are investing to improve our energy efficiency.
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Plastic Injection Molder Saves Energy
By Gary Shafer, iZ Systems
The facility is a plastics injection blowmolder and is a division of a large corporation. The following information was produced from a compressed air system assessment done over seven days in 2008.
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