Abstract
The reason for implementing this program was to
assist the plant in quantifying some of its
leaks in the equipment throuqhout the plant and
to provide direction as to which leaks are
generating high utility costs. The direction is
very beneficial in making maintenance aware of
problems within equipment as well as notifying
them as to where their efforts will be the most
beneficial.
The data displayed a wide variance of compressed
air consumption rates which can be attributed to
packing problems, since all other usage points
are minimal and constant. The readings taken
during the "press running" mode were four times
the "press idle" readings. Under original
equipment design, these readings should have not
even doubled.
Hawks, K. D. (1986). A Compressed Air Reduction Program. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu). Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /93062.