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Distribution Piping: Understanding Pressure Drop
By the Compressed Air Challenge®
The Compressed Air Challenge® (CAC) is a voluntary collaboration of industrial users; manufacturers, distributors and their associations; consultants; state research and development agencies; energy efficiency organizations; and utilities. This group has one purpose in mind - helping you enjoy the benefits of improved performance of your compressed air system. The mission of the Compressed Air Challenge (CAC) is to provide resources that educate industrial users about optimizing their compressed air systems.
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Roxane Laboratories’ System Assessment
By Hank Van Ormer, Air Power USA
Roxane Laboratories, Inc., a subsidiary of Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation located in Columbus, Ohio, created a world-class air system that generated $61,314 per year in electrical energy cost savings (1,156,868 kWh), improved productivity and quality, and allowed the successful completion of a significant plant expansion.
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Compressed Air Piping Distribution Systems
By Gary Wamsley, PE, CEM, JoGar Energy Services
Perhaps your facility recently had a compressed air system survey, conducted by an air systems services company, that resulted in a couple of major recommendations, such as:  • Install a new smaller compressor and new control systems on all of the units • Repair the many air leaks (identified as 30% of your system capacity)  
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Batch Transport Conveyor System Audit Saves Energy
By Hank Van Ormer, Air Power USA
A compressed air system assessment saved this building materials manufacturer over $518,000 per year in energy costs, with a simple ROI of 11 months. 
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Printing Facility Reduces Air Demand
Ron Marshall, CET, CIM, Manitoba Hydro
This article will focus on a compressed air system assessment done at a printing facility in Canada. The energy costs at the time, in Manitoba, were $0.025 per kWh and the installation was of just 65 horsepower of air compressors.
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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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An Automotive System Assessment
By Bill Scales P.E., Scales Industrial Technologies
This stamping plant is a 2.5 million-square-foot facility with over two thousand employees.  At the time of the assessment, the plant was processing approximately 1,600 tons of steel per day into automotive vehicle components and parts such as body parts.
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Chrysler Finds Vacuum Savings of $400,000 per Plant
By Josef Karbassi, PIAB
A recent comparative vacuum technology study performed by Dr. Kingman Yee, as part of a Chrysler Summer Intern Professors Program, found that air consumption could be reduced by 98% when equipping a robot’s end-of-arm tooling with COAXÆ technology and a Vacustat™ check valve.
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A Food Processing System Assessment
By Hank Van Ormer, Air Power USA
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Steel Cord Producer Manages Pressure
By Dan Wirth, Tencarva Machinery Company
The facility produces “Steel Cord” and is a division of a large corporation. The following information was produced from a compressed air system analysis done over seven days.
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Boiler Soot-Blowing in Power Plants
By Hank Van Ormer, Air Power USA
Utilities have been cleaning their boilers for many years using either steam or high-pressure air.  In the past, when air was used, due to the size of the boilers and the reasonable quality of fuel used, a relatively small amount of cleaning was required.
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