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Combat surging energy costs

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Surging energy costs have facility engineers, managers and maintenance supervisors looking for ways to make plants more efficient. The most logical place to start is with the boiler system to get control of the Steamer, one of three energy-wasting villains called the D-Energizers.

The incredible shrinking heat exchanger

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Heat exchangers are getting increasingly compact and efficient. Enhanced, compact, ultra-compact, microscale and mesoscale variations are on the market or in development. Continuing innovations in nanotechnology and fuel cells promise further advances in heat exchanger miniaturization.

Negotiating for energy incentives

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Companies face three main dimensions of energy risk — unpredictable and probably rising prices, availability and reliability, and environmental impacts and costs. Energy Expert Peter Garforth examines how the surrounding community can help you manage these risks.

Industrial coatings can handle the worst conditions

Industrial coatings enhance the properties of a substrate and increase its service life. The right coatings can endure severe temperatures, moisture and humidity, fumes, chemicals and abrasion.

2005 Readers' Choice Awards

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Your peers offer some of the best information on how to best run your plant. Plant Services has asked your peers what are the best brands and products that you can rely on to give the best combination of performance, durability, low maintenance and reasonable cost. The result is our 2005 Readers' Choice Awards.

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Podcast

Podcast: Littelfuse's Larry Altmayer discusses the paradigm shift in plant electrical infrastructure

Larry Altmayer, POWR-GARD services manager for Littelfuse Inc., says we must consider electrical infrastructure to be a dynamic system that requires regular attention and a formal preventive maintenance program.