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Boiler efficiencies optimized at Arkema

ControlGlobal.com
How a chemical plant in Calvert City, Ky., fixed inefficiencies in its boiler operations.

Chemical plant boils with hydrogen

PlantServices.com
A multi-fuel steam-generation system reduces both the plant's fuel bill and carbon footprint.

Energy performance contract paying off

PlantServices.com
Coating company replaces RTOs at no net cost.

Combat surging energy costs

PlantServices.com
Surging energy costs have facility engineers, managers and maintenance supervisors looking for ways to make plants more efficient. The most logical place to start is with the boiler system to get control of the Steamer, one of three energy-wasting villains called the D-Energizers.

The incredible shrinking heat exchanger

PlantServices.com
Heat exchangers are getting increasingly compact and efficient. Enhanced, compact, ultra-compact, microscale and mesoscale variations are on the market or in development. Continuing innovations in nanotechnology and fuel cells promise further advances in heat exchanger miniaturization.

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Podcast

Podcast: Littelfuse's Larry Altmayer discusses the paradigm shift in plant electrical infrastructure

Larry Altmayer, POWR-GARD services manager for Littelfuse Inc., says we must consider electrical infrastructure to be a dynamic system that requires regular attention and a formal preventive maintenance program.