Scales Industrial Technologies, an Allied Partner of the US Department of Energy can provide answers and much more with our Compressed Air System Assessments and Audits. Since 1972, we've helped thousands of manufacturers save considerable energy, increase the functionality and reliability of their compressed air systems, improve their processes, and most of all improve their bottom line.
In 1973, Scales Industrial Technologies (then Scales Air Compressor Corporation) was one of the first air compressor companies to support state and utility energy efficiency/demand response programs.
Scales helped industry save energy by controlling compressed air costs. In the 1980s and '90s, Scales was involved in the Industrial Effectiveness program through North Carolina State University and the Department of Commerce providing basic compressed air assessments at approximately 100 manufacturing facilities. Scales developed and presented one-day workshops and conducted one or two-day compressed air assessments.
For Northeast Utilities, as part of the State of Connecticut's Energy Conservation Fund, Scales performed one of the first of many comprehensive leak saving and inappropriate use remediation studies and completed successful implementations.
Scales also performed many energy saving seminars and surveys for utilities from Massachusetts and Connecticut to California including Southern California Electric, Seattle City Light, Sempra Utilities, National Grid, Northeast Utilities, Detroit Edison, Con Edison, Long Island Lighting Company (now LIPA), PSE&G, JCP&L and many other associations and utilities.
Project Experience:
Scales Industrial Technologies has provided hundreds of energy surveys since 1973
Ford Motor Company hired Scales to do compressed air assessments at approximately twenty (20) plants. Pactiv selected Scales to do similar assessments at approximately fifteen (15) manufacturing sites. Mobil Oil and Alcoa retained Scales to audit compressed air systems internationally including Australia (three visits), Saudi Arabia, Surinam, Japan, and many other locations.
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Levels of Analysis:
The following levels of analysis of compressed air systems have been developed to provide commonality of terminology, methods and procedures to be used by service providers, as well as the results end users can expect. Energy utilities are actively involved in these efforts, and some provide incentives to use these analyses for improving the energy efficiency of compressed air systems.
Conducting a walk-through evaluation is the first step in analyzing a compressed air system. Depending on individual needs, this can be conducted either by plant personnel or an experienced compressed air system services provider. It's not intended to provide the level of detail of a system assessment or audit, but significant reductions in energy (25 percent or more)and lower maintenance costs frequently result from a walk-through evaluation alone. Once initial opportunities are identified, you can decide whether additional analysis services are required to further define system dynamics and corresponding improvement opportunities. This decision will depend, in part, on the size and complexity of the system being examined (both supply and demand) and whether the evaluation uncovered critical issues requiring further investigation to identify causes and potential remedies.
There are three levels of analysis:
WALK-THROUGH EVALUATION FREE! During this half day process, we develop an overview of your plant's compressed air system to determine its needs and the appropriateness of end uses, pressures and air quality requirements. The distribution system supply-side and maintenance procedures are carefully analyzed.
SYSTEM ASSESSMENT Considerably more detailed, here we take readings at appropriate locations to identify system dynamics, draw up a simple block diagram that's then combined with pressure and demand profiles to identify potential problems and their remedies. System assessments regularly require two to five days to complete.
SYSTEM AUDIT Involving greater depth and detail than system assessments, audits involve data logging of system-wide readings with the objective of developing proper alignment of supply and demand sides for optimum efficiency, energy savings, and reliability. Over its three to ten days, an audit lets us establish a baseline against which the results of proposed changes are measured.
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Click here for a brochure on our energy savings assesments and audits. Click here to see what we did for the Ford Van Dyke Transmission Plant, or here to see what we did for Summit Manufacturing.
