Energy Management and Sustainability
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Ecodesign Directive: Study widened

News that the Ecodesign Directive (widely referred to as ErP) preparatory study for compressors has been widened to include low pressure and oil-free compressors means even more products will potentially be affected, and further delays to the publication of the associated Ecodesign Regulations can be expected, according to Andy Jones, managing director at Mattei.

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Selling grid quality gas

Cheese producer, Wyke Farms, generates biogas from its own on-site anaerobic digestion (AD) plant. This converts 75,000t of biodegradable waste per year into renewable energy to sell back to the National Grid. By blending Calor LPG with biomethane, the resulting blend qualifies for injection into mains gas grid, thereby making a contribution of sustainable energy to many thousands of domestic homes and businesses.

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Healthy savings

Following a successful trial in one of its operating theatres, the Royal Surrey County Hospital installed Goodlight LED tubes. Similar retrofit products were also fitted in corridors to replace original lighting that had begun to fail whilst Goodlight floodlights and LED SON replacements were installed in the hospital’s car park.

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Energy bills: Greater visibility

A logistics service provider for restaurants around the world, Martin Brower required a sophisticated metering and monitoring system at its headquarters in Hemel Hempstead to ensure that individual business units within the company were being billed correctly for their energy use

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Latest CO2 refrigeration technology

At the new children’s hospital in a park development at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Green Cooling has designed and installed a CO2 refrigeration system which includes walk-in refrigerated storage for the main kitchens, a centralised high efficiency CO2 refrigeration system and refrigerated storage for pharmacy use.

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Safety feedback option

Inmoco has announced a feedback addition to its Kollmorgen AKM range of servomotors, which provides a high integrity option for safety critical applications.

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Prison pressure problem solved

HMP Holme House near Stockton on Tees offers employment training opportunities to prisoners in its modern workshop complex. The woodmill within the complex specialises in production of hardwood furniture, but last year production was often interrupted due to pressure drops within the compressed air system.

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VSD range extended

Parker Hannifin has extended its AC30 series of variable speed AC drives up to 250kW output rating. The move comes following a recent update to introduce a pulse encoder feedback option, bringing closed-loop capabilities to the portfolio.

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Total systems approach

A total systems approach to compressed air can increase performance and reduce inefficiencies for significant bottom-line benefit to industries, according to Chad Larrabee, director of services marketing North America, Ingersoll Rand Compressed Air Systems and Services

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