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Food

Maintenance Programs Can Be Outsourced, But Responsibility Cannot
Outsourcing maintenance agreements for compressed air systems is commonplace in the food and
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Plastics

Pepsi Bottling Plant Upgrades Oil-Free Compressed Air Systems
The Pepsi bottling plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba has upgraded both their main 100 psi compressed air
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Paper

A Systems Approach Helps Rockline Industries Retrofit a Compressed Air System
Rockline Industries is one of the largest global producers of consumer products, specializing in
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Printing

Sanity Check: Will the Standby Air Compressors Start-Up During Cold Weather?
Several days prior to our visit, during a cold winter evening, the lead air compressor in one
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Pharmaceutical

GMP Compliant Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Plant Compressed Air Systems
This article is intended to show the relationships between risks and specifications, opportunities
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Auto

Ford Motor Company’s Kentucky Truck Plant Helps Paint a Bright Energy Future
The Ford Motor Company Kentucky Truck Plant (KTP) not only manufactures upscale SUVs and pickup
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Bulk

Sustainability is “Part of Who We Are” at Eastman
By making sustainability a requirement and a core element of its growth strategy, Eastman has
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Transit

New York City Transit Authority Reduces Energy Use with Compressed Air Heat Recovery System
When the New York City Transit Authority (NYCT) set out to comply with local regulations calling
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Metals

Capital & Maintenance Cost Avoidance When Metal Grinding Loads Rise
Plant personnel had experienced ongoing problems with its process grinder performance due to
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Medical

The Vital Role of Specialized Compressors in Helium Recovery
Helium is a precious noble gas that has become invaluable for leak detection, as well as cooling
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Power

Instrument Air in Nuclear Power Plants
Nuclear power plants produce electricity for people, business and industry.  Electricity is
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Oil & Gas

Keeping Compressed Air Leaks to a Minimum at Petrochemical Plants
In terms of compressed air systems, it’s not unusual to see a plant with 10 to 15 air
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Wastewater

Pure & Enriched: The Advantages of Using Oxygen in Wastewater Treatment Processes
Wastewater treatment processes have come a long way in the past century, but demand continues to
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Compressed Air System Drawings: A Picture Can Save Tens of Thousands of Dollars

By Paul Edwards, Compressed Air Consultants, Inc.

There are some fundamentals when it comes to compressed air system improvements. One strategy that is overlooked is just drawing the details of whatever aspect of a system you are looking at. It is fairly common to see a misdiagnosis of some particular technical issue that would have been obvious should someone have created the drawing to describe the problem.
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Ford Motor Company’s Kentucky Truck Plant Helps Paint a Bright Energy Future

By Mike Grennier, Compressed Air Best Practices® Magazine

The Ford Motor Company Kentucky Truck Plant (KTP) not only manufactures upscale SUVs and pickup trucks painted in wide variety of stellar, high-quality colors and finishes –  it does so cost-effectively by conserving annual compressed air energy of approximately 9.2 GWh thanks to a major overhaul of the plant’s compressed air system.
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Utilizing Smaller Point-of-Use Desiccant Dryers to Minimize Purge Energy Consumption

By Jim DiMaiolo, Altec AIR

For many installations of industrial air dryers, a dilemma can occur when trying to achieve the correct balance between desired specifications and efficiency in the applications. Sometimes there is no way around a requirement to achieve ultra-dry dew points, but are we always considering the point-of-use needs when implementing a dry air solution? Often the dry air system is configured with one end goal in mind which is dry air but doing so without accounting for the point-of-use factors that can lead to added expenses and wasted energy.  
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Dew Point Measurement in Compressed Air Systems

By Martin Raab, E+E Elektronik Ges.m.b.H.

Wherever compressed air is used, accurate and continuous monitoring of the dew point temperature is advisable. The dew point provides information about the absolute humidity content of the compressed air. A too high humidity content can have negative effects on the quality of the final product, lead to problems during the manufacturing process, or even result in complete system shutdown. Therefore, operators of compressed air systems should address this issue before it causes serious and costly issues. The following explains the basics of dew point measurement and what is important in practice.
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