Air flow measurement provides data to aid energy reduction programme
November 10th 2008

Like many companies in the UK and Europe, Northpoint, a UK market leader in the supply of powder coating solutions, are experiencing increasing cost increases for energy and have committed to reducing energy consumption.

Northpoint director, Philip Dawson explains, “We use compressed air to operate one of the largest powder coating facilities in Europe and decided to target this form of energy after successfully reducing water use earlier in the year. As with any project of this nature, it is important to measure how much air is being used, where the use is and the times at which it is used.”

“To provide the data upon which commercially sound decisions can be taken, we hired two air flowmeter systems from Flowhire. The flowmeters were installed at different locations around the plant to record flow, pressure and temperature.”

“The nett result of the collecting the data is that Northpoint will be de-centralising compressed air generation so that only the air needed for each area and at the appropriate time will be produced; this in turn will reduce our carbon footprint as well as reducing overheads and improving profits.”

Flowhire, specialist flow meter hire company, has a large range of flowmetering systems for the measurement of air, steam, gases and liquids.

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