Industrial Energy Savings    

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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Vapor Recovery Units Manage Greenhouse Gases
By Rod Smith, Compressed Air Best Practices®
Compressed Air Best Practices® interviewed Mr. Sid Van der Meer and Mr. Terry Nickel from Northwest Equipment Ltd in Airdrie, Canada.
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Large Designs – Small Compressors at Hycomp, Inc.
By Rod Smith, Compressed Air Best Practices®
There are many applications which require a low horsepower compressor built with the technology that has been proven in larger compressors. Often these situations are not addressed well by the general compressor industry.  
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Reducing the Compressed Air Consumption of Air Cannons
Christopher Schmelzer, Flow Aid Products Manager, Martin Engineering USA
Air cannons, also known as air blasters or just “blasters” belong to a family of products known as flow aid devices. For over 30 years, air cannons have been used widely in industries such as cement manufacturing, electric power generation, coal, metal, and non-metal mining, and pulp and paper manufacturing.
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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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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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