Cruciforming Your Energy Costs

Installation of a new type of regenerator packing has improved combustion air preheat temperatures and subsequent fuel efficiency of the W1 furnace at Rockware Wheatley. The new packing was one of a number of improvements incorporated during a furnace rebuild. Over a one year period the energy savings attributable to the new packing were worth nearly £80,000 giving a payback period of 14 months. Emissions concentrations were all below the limit set for 2001 by the EPA.