Overview:
There are thousands of oxidizer systems in operation today in the United States and throughout the world. These systems, using a high temperature reaction chamber (with or without catalysts) to treat the exhaust gases from a wide range of industrial processes, offers a tremendous opportunity for both energy conservation and energy cost reduction. As a result, there are a wide range of stack energy recovery options available in the market place today, and are being offered by oxidizer manufacturers to their potential or existing clients.
However, the economic feasibility of these implementations depend greatly on the end use strategies of the energy recovered or how effectively the energy is utilized inside the Plant Facilities themselves. This white paper will concentrate specifically on those end uses that are applicable to the existing printing industry in the South Florida area, related to the Heating, Ventilation and Air conditioning (HVAC) Systems.
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC):
The word or term “HEATING” can be practically eliminated from the process of air conditioning systems as it relates to large printing facilities in the South Florida area. Nearly all facilities have a demand for cooling (only) throughout the whole year. Therefore, the capturing, delivering, and employing of stack energy efforts should concentrate on assisting the cooling demands for these facilities.
With this challenge and intent, the most cost effective measure, is to incorporate an air-to-water heat exchanger on the RTO stack to deliver hot water to fire a “GREEN” chiller, to replace or assist the existing electrically operated chilled water producing air conditioning system compressors. But, the incorporation of a “GREEN” chiller would not be enough to satisfy the good business economics pursued with this challenge. Further, air distribution systems must be modified to employ advanced spot cooling techniques and ventilation rates of outside air need to be controlled and monitored to substantially diminish the cooling
demand for the refrigeration plant.
The goal is to improve the facility’s energy efficiency by 50% or more in comparison to a baseline standard established by the American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers-ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2001, to further, qualify the facility for an Energy Efficient Commercial Building Tax Deduction of up to $1.80 per square foot of air conditioned space. Energy Analysis must be performed and calculated using qualified computer software approved by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
When these measures and considerations are properly implemented, the overall resulting savings in electrical consumption can be reduced to as much as 30% to 40% and attractive payback periods can be achieved usually in less than 18 months), and without Federal assistance within 36 months or less.
Additional Incentives:
Additional tax deductions of up to $0.60 per square foot of building footprint is available through the IRS for individual systems such as lighting and building envelope issues that would individually reduce electrical consumptions an additional 16.67%, but not to the extent of achieving a 50% in energy and power costs.These systems would be evaluated on a separate basis and consistently produce fruitful results.
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