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COMPANY’S COMPRESSOR WASTE HEATS LOCAL COLLEGE
Greiner Packaging’s production plant in Northern Ireland is helping a neighbouring college cut its £40,000 annual heating bill by donating waste heat from its compressors and its process cooling installation. Dungannon Integrated College
receives the heat into its central heating system via underground pipework, not only reducing costs but saving 200 metric tons of CO2. Greiner Packaging, which is
headquartered in Austria, specialises in the production of rigid packaging containers supplied to the food industry in Great Britain and Ireland. Compressed air is essential
for all of the company’s production processes and is supplied by Atlas Copco oil-free, water-cooled Z-range compressors – with their outputs optimised by a central controller. It is the compressors’ water
cooling systems that provide a substantial addition to the waste heat supply to the nearby school. Air drawn into a compressor
contains water vapour. Heat stored in the vapour is released through condensation in the inter- and aftercooler of the compressor. The condensation heat contained in the input air is equivalent to 5-20% of the electrical input energy. This property is fully exploited by the unique design of Atlas Copco’s Z-range of oil-free screw compressors with energy recovery capability, whereby the total energy recovered as hot water amounts up to 80-100% of the electrical input energy, depending on the site conditions. This supply is combined with
hot water derived from a large battery of cooling fans sited near the college, which assist the cooling cycle that is integral to
the plastic forming processes undertaken at the plant. As Jonathan Parr, the
electrical services and plant manager at the site, explains: “The rapid sequence of heating and forming plastic materials requires equally fast cooling of the molten polymers. In this Greiner Packaging plant we achieve this with a large battery of condenser cooling fan units, in addition to the water cooling systems on the compressors, which extract the heat in the form of hot water at 80 degrees Celsius that is then delivered to the neighbouring school via 275 metres of pipework buried a metre underground.” This community project,
considered to be the first of its type, is reputed to have cost Greiner Packaging £90,000.
Atlas Copco Compressors
www.atlascopco.com
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC ANNOUNCES THE OSISENSE ZMLP SWITCH
Schneider Electric has introduced the Telemecanique Sensors OsiSense range. The new OsiSense ZMLP is a switch with display and offers easy access to up-to-date pressure information, even when the transmitter itself is placed in a hard-to- reach location. Installation of the OsiSense ZMLP is simple and straightforward and the device
can be mounted away from the pressure transmitter, using a quick-fix bracket to attach to a horizontal or vertical plane or pipe. It can also be placed directly on the pressure transmitter via the M12 connector. In addition, the body of the switch can rotate for easy adjustment of the viewing angle. To complete the configuration, only three parameters need to be defined:
display range, set point, and reset point. These are adjustable by two simple screws with a universal head that is compatible with standard screwdrivers.
Schneider Electric
www.schneider-electric.co.uk
RPE DESIGN SOFTWARE UPGRADE
Rittal have launched a major upgrade to their RPE design software, complemented by the IEC 61439 guide book, which covers aspects of the standard that effect all control panels. The new version 6.2 provides the
ability to design motor control centres, electrical switchgear, control panels and generate bill of material, costs and designs that comply with the latest IEC 61439 switchgear standards. Key features for users of Rittal’s
RPE software include generation of copper connection drawings; production of design verification documentation and the ability to generate users own documentation; internal enclosure temperature calculation; application examples; excel configurator for temperature rise calculations up to 630A and up to 1600A according to IEC 61439 section 10.10.4.2 and new partial doors and front panels.
Rittal
www.rittal.co.uk B&B ELECTRONICS NAMES GARY SHEEDY GM OF EMEA OPS
B&B Electronics, a developer of mission-critical network connectivity solutions, has appointed technology industry veteran Gary Sheedy as the General Manager of its EMEA operations based in Galway, Ireland. Sheedy will manage the EMEA sales teams and have P&L responsibility for the EMEA operation. He will also take on an international business development role for B&B Electronics, drawing from his two decades of high- tech industry experience on the international stage. An engineer by background, Sheedy has worked
in all areas of high tech, from design and development to manufacturing and test in many international arenas including the US, UK,
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Germany and Australasia/Asia. He also brings significant experience in general management, business development and technology leadership. Sheedy’s previous work experience includes
engineering and engineering management positions with Infineon AG (Formerly Siemens AG) as director of tools and software, and with Advantest Europe GmbH as EMEA SAE Manager. He has also served in commercial sales and marketing positions with Dynamic Controls (a subdivision of Invacare Corp.) as GM of product development, and with Invenco Group Ltd. as the global head – OEM business development.
B&B Electronics / IRISHMANUFACTURING
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