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Utilities Manager/2007
Author:Allan Rienstra, SDT North America
Powering up for the new year. . .
Leaking compressed air systems can be some of the biggest energy hogs in industrial operations. Proper monitoring and maintenance of these systems should be one of your top priorities.
Compared to water,...
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Utilities Manager/2010
Author:Bill Hillman, Ludeca, Inc.
You might be surprised at how much energy is wasted when these systems operate poorly.
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Utilities Manager/2008
Author:Brad Loy, Lineage Power
Are you over-utilizing and under-servicing your energy system?
Network power—without power—would leave you without a network. It’s a necessity, not unlike basic electricity needed to power your home or fuel to power your vehicle. But most...
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Utilities Manager/2007
Author:Chrisopher Russell, Principal, South River Facility Management
Chrisopher Russell, Principal, South River Facility Management
Organizations should be prepared to manage a wide and growing variety of energy-related business risks. These include energy market volatility as well as rapidly evolving...
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Utilities Manager/2007
Author:Christopher Russell, Principal, Energy Pathfinder Management Consulting, LLC, Contributing Editor
Christopher Russell, Principal, Energy Pathfinder Management Consulting, LLC, Contributing Editor
Reacting to rising energy costs, many managers will naturally focus on what they pay for fuel and power. A "price-centric" approach seeks...
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Utilities Manager/2006
Author:Christopher Russell, Principal, Energy Pathfinder Management Consulting, LLC
Christopher Russell, Principal, Energy Pathfinder Management Consulting, LLC
A particularly destructive hurricane season in 2005 wreaked havoc on oil and gas production infrastructure in the Gulf Coast region. This damage, in addition to...
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Utilities Manager/2007
Author:Christopher Russell, Principal, South River Facility Management
Christopher Russell, Principal, South River Facility Management
We’re all familiar with the monthly budget review meeting. This is when the general manager sits down with department heads to compare the latest month’s financial results to...
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Utilities Manager/2007
Author:Christopher Russell, Principal,Energy Pathfinder, Management Consulting, LLC
The question that industrial decision-makers will most frequently ask about energy cost control is "How much can I save?" The question that really should be asked is, "How much am I likely to save?"
How much can I save? The average industrial...
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Utilities Manager/2009
Author:Colleen M. Reeves, Dubric, Inc.
This is what it's all about. How much energy must go into a pump to get the most out of it, and, what does a pump's inefficiency have to do with its reliability?
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Utilities Manager/2007
Author:Dan Willems, Cleaver-Brooks
What can you do when you are expected to generate steam efficiently, but you have to do it with aging, inefficient equipment? Think retrofits.
As a utilities manager, you know how critical steam is to an operation's power, process heat and indoor...
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Utilities Manager/2008
Author:Felix Guerzoni, Shell Global Solutions
Cradle-to-grave life-cycle costing is not just for equipment. You may be quite surprised by the value-added information these analyses can provide when it comes to lubricant selection.
Lubricants can be optimized for specific types of...
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Utilities Manager/2007
Author:Gary R. Burger Utilities Manager, Stevenson Memorial Hospital
Installing new equipment or retrofitting old provides you with a great opportunity to simplify and optimize your steam trap PMs.
Even when a plant has a small population of steam traps-and little or no inspection taking place-significant money can...
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Utilities Manager/2006
Author:Gunnar Hovstadius, Ph.D.
It's everybody's job to save energy. Simple solutions to help optimize your pumping systems, like those outlined in this article, often can pay off more than you might think.
The facts speak for themselves and they're not very encouraging for...
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Utilities Manager/2010
Author:Henry Molise, P.E. HCM Energy Consulting, LLC
You've set up a steering team to help drive your organization's energy-management efforts. Now it's time to look at the roadmap.
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Utilities Manager/2010
Author:Henry Molise, P.E., HCM Energy Consulting, LLC
Energy-efficiency isn't just about technology. If your organization hasn't adjusted its culture to help raise and sustain the energy consciousness of your human assets, now's the time to do it.
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Utilities Manager/2006
Author:Jane Alexander with Paul Twite, 24-7 Power, Inc.
An experienced power quality engineer reveals how he goes about finding energy savings in a facility. It all begins with an energy audit.
"Using energy efficiently is cool again," says Paul Twite, referring to the current high cost of energy.Twite...
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Utilities Manager/2008
Author:Jane Alexander, Editor with Cassie Quaintance, Schneider Electric
What’s not to love? What’s not to emulate? This global manufacturer realized $3.7 million in energy savings in just the first three years of a corporate energy optimization initiative.
As a global leader in electrical distribution,...
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Utilities Manager/2011
Author:Jane Alexander, Editor with Jim Connell Airxchange, Inc.
An energy-saving enthalpy wheel reduces the temperature of incoming air.
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Utilities Manager/2009
Author:Jane Alexander, Editor-In-Chief
Jane Alexander, Editor-In-Chief
"Energy is wealth," says Christopher Russell, energy consultant and author of Industrial Energy Harvest. "Fuels and power are forms of currency."
The sooner you learn how these and...
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Utilities Manager/2007
Author:Jane Alexander, Editor-In-Chief
New to North America, this proven technology soon may change the way you approach process cooling in your operations.
Although some technologies are constantly changing, at least one has remained virtually unchanged for decades: cooling tower...
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