Praise for NPIL energy savings

NPIL has made major energy savings in a project that is partly funded by the Electricity Commission. They figure it is more efficient for government to help industry to introduce energy efficiencies, than to build new power stations.
The ECCA website now carries two stories about our projects, one featuring the switch to Variable Speed Drives as an energy saver on our fans, and the other about modifications to the compressed air system. Process Engineer James Cameron says even more savings could be made if operators go easy on the compressed air.
“Compressed air is at least 10 times more expensive than supplying other forms of energy, with most of the energy sucked up in producing heat in the compressor,” he says. “Typically a plant wastes as much as 50 percent of its expensive compressed air on inappropriate uses like cooling, artificial demand and on leaks so we are very interested in reducing its consumption as we work to reduce energy use at NPIL.”

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