Industrial Energy Savings    

Vacuum/Blowers

Soft Drink Bottler Saves Energy With Blowers
By Beth Tompkins, JetAir Technologies
A leading soft drink bottling manufacturer’s compressed air needs were threatening to exceed its Michigan plant’s compressed air capacity. Faced with the cost of buying a new compressor, the soft drink bottling manufacturer re-assessed their compressed air use to identify compressor and energy savings opportunities. In the audit, the soft drink bottling manufacturer identified the use of compressed air in a gap transfer as a source of compressed air and energy inefficiency.
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PIAB Optimizes Food Processing Vacuum Systems
By Rod Smith, Compressed Air Best Practices
Compressed Air Best PracticesÆ Magazine spoke with Mr. Ed McGovern (VP Sales & Business Development) of PIAB North America.
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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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Explosion-Proof Vacuum Systems
By Paul R. Miller, Vice President and General Manager, Nilfisk CFM
In February of 2008, a sugar plant near Savannah, Georgia suffered the ultimate tragedy. Thirteen employees were killed and 40 injured when finely ground motes of sugar dust ignited, setting off a violent blast. If the fatalities and a tarnished reputation weren’t enough, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) then fined the company more than 8 million dollars in workplace violations related to combustible dust.
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A Steel Processing Audit
By Hank Van Ormer, Air Power USA
This steel processing facility has been operating for over one hundred years.  This facility is part of a large corporation with numerous plants around the world.  This audit focused on the compressed air system on one side of the Works which we will call the “North Plant”.
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Blowers Save Energy at Aluminum Mill
By Brendan Smith, JetAir Technologies
Relatively few people realize that for a variety of industrial manufacturing applications, from air knife drying to simple blow-off nozzles, the use of high pressure compressed air that bleeds into the atmosphere represents a significant waste of energy.  
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