Eaton and Ash Grove Cement Outline New Energy Management Initiative at Portland Conference
PITTSBURGH -- Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation has announced that David Durocher, Eaton’s global industry manager, mining and mineral processing, and senior member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), presented a technical paper at the 2012 IEEE-Industry Applications Society (IAS) / Portland Cement Association (PCA) Cement Industry Technical Conference, held in May in San Antonio. The presentation outlined the successful integration of a facility-wide energy management system into a cement plant.
The technical paper was co-authored by Bruce Newell, assistant vice president of Manufacturing with Ash Grove Cement, who joined Durocher in presenting this energy management case study. The system was installed at Ash Grove Cement’s manufacturing plant in Seattle, which has operated for over 80 years.
The facility’s new energy management system is delivering measurable benefits identifying equipment or system inefficiencies, responding to load changes to avoid utility penalty charges and trending energy data which is used as a baseline to measure the performance of future energy saving projects. Since completion of the project, four of Ash Grove Cement’s facilities have installed similar systems and three more are scheduled to install systems in 2012.
“The new systems give plant operations real time visibility to power consumption across the facility and a comparison to historic energy use, broken down by plant departments,” said Durocher. “With the latest in energy metering with built-in web browsers that communicate via the company intranet, plant operators, department managers and headquarters operations, have the ability to easily monitor production efficiency. Site electrical maintenance personnel use the same systems to troubleshoot power disruptions, using power quality analysis tools to continuously improve plant productivity.”
“We are very happy with the results from installation of the new energy management system based on Eaton metering technology,” said Newell. “Both the hardware and software are easy to configure and offer a very simple, but powerful user interface. Our payback for the recently installed energy management systems has been in the range of 2 to 2 ½ years.”
Eaton’s electrical business is a global leader in power distribution, power quality, control and automation, power monitoring, and energy management products and services. Eaton is positioned, through its global electrical product series and solutions, to answer today’s most critical electrical power management challenges.
Eaton Corporation is a diversified power management company with more than 100 years of experience providing energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power. With 2011 sales of $16.0 billion, Eaton is a global technology leader in electrical components, systems and services for power quality, distribution and control; hydraulics components, systems and services for industrial and mobile equipment; aerospace fuel, hydraulics and pneumatic systems for commercial and military use; and truck and automotive drivetrain and powertrain systems for performance, fuel economy and safety. Eaton has approximately 72,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit www.eaton.com.
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