Although an effective date isn’t expected before 2011, mandatory minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) for electric motors are coming to Europe in 2009.
Since most process industry operations depend on carefully modulated flows, control valve actuators are hugely important. Users explain what they want and need for such strategic hardware.
This article series provides specific examples of how engineers can identify and address --at relatively little or no cost --the principal sources of energy waste in their production facilities. Part one focuses on facility and machine power use and motors and drives. Part two will focus on energy reuse and application-specific energy savings.
There comes a point in the life of every business when it has to choose between investing in an advanced technology and staying with the tried-and-true—the potential big payback versus the safe status quo.