Posts Tagged ‘energy efficiency’
NFPA Helps ISO Work Toward Hydraulic Filter Energy Efficiency Standards
by Eric Lanke NFPA CEO Using a new process for determining positions of public advocacy for standardization initiatives (see this NFPA News post), the NFPA Board of Directors recently adopted the following position: “The fluid power industry needs a standardized way to measure the energy consumption and efficiency of fluid power components and systems.…
Read MoreYour Help Needed – Funding for Fluid Power Research Takes Another Step Forward
by Eric Lanke NFPA CEO Not too long ago I wrote about NFPA’s day on Capitol Hill—when several NFPA members and I met with 20 or so Congressional offices to advocate for a new research program within the Department of Energy focused on fluid power in off-highway vehicles. The Good News Language friendly to this…
Read MoreNFPA, IFPS Members Educate DOE Assessors on Fluid Power Efficiency
by Eric Lanke NFPA CEO The U.S. Department of Energy maintains more than twenty Industrial Assessment Centers (IAC) around the United States—university programs where energy management engineering students perform no-cost assessments of industrial facilities and make recommendations for reducing their overall energy consumption. According to the data I saw when I attended an…
Read MoreNFPA Helps ISO Work Toward Fluid Power Energy Efficiency Standards
by Eric Lanke NFPA CEO Utilizing a new process for determining positions of public advocacy for standardization initiatives (see this NFPA News post), the NFPA Board of Directors recently adopted the following position: “The fluid power industry needs a standardized way to measure the energy consumption and efficiency of fluid power components and…
Read MoreCompressed air: the most expensive energy in a production facility
This is the second blog in a series, contributed by Festo Corporation, that focuses on reducing the operational costs of pneumatic systems and discusses how users can get more throughput while using less energy. According to Festo, “This is the goal of every manufacturer, but in order to optimize usage, machine builders and manufacturers alike…
Read MoreRight-sized Compressors and Components Increase Efficiency and Save Money
While researching ways to increase efficiency in fluid power systems I ran across a recent pneumatics blog by Parker Hannifin that I thought I’d share with the Fluid Power Design readers. The Parker blog gives a number of recommendations to help increase plant efficiency and save on overall maintenance costs. Some of the pointers include:…
Read MoreInnovative Air Cushion Solution Improves Actuator Productivity, Machine Reliability and Saves Money – Part 2
“A common goal throughout the business world is to increase productivity while reducing costs. This certainly applies to machine design, which means achieving the fastest possible cycle times. For pneumatic systems, this often requires running actuators as fast as possible without introducing excessive shock loads to the system.” This is the second post in series…
Read MoreEnergy Efficient Fluid Power Conference Will Return at IFPE 2017
by Eric Lanke NFPA CEO The Energy Efficient Hydraulics and Pneumatics Conference (EEHPC) is an event co-sponsored by NFPA, the FPDA Motion & Control Network, and the International Fluid Power Society. It has been held three times, in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Each time, content has been targeted to engineers and technicians in fluid power’s…
Read MoreEnergy Efficiency is Improved by Turning Waste Heat into Useful Work
While visiting The Future of Pneumatic booth at PACK EXPO Las Vegas I talked with one research student to learn about a novel way to save energy in an industrial settings by turning waste heat into useful work with a Stirling pressurizer. In a recent study the U.S. Department of Energy said that the industrial…
Read MoreISO Technical Committee Works to Advance Energy Efficiency
The International Standards Organization (ISO) technical committee for fluid power (TC 131), along with 19 of its subcommittees and working groups, converged on Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Milan, Italy in October to foster standards development within the hydraulics and pneumatics industries. The delegates in each committee/working group worked diligently to resolve and move many fluid…
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