CompressedAir Evaluation Protocol（压缩空气评估协议）.pdfVIP

Compressed-Air Evaluation Protocol Nate Benton, Nexant, Inc. 1 Measure Description Compressed-air systems are widely used throughout the industry for a multitude of operations including pneumatic tools, packaging and automation equipment, conveyors, and other industrial process operations. Compressed-air systems are a group of subsystems composed of air compressors, air treatment equipment, controls, piping, pneumatic tools, pneumatically powered machinery, and process applications using compressed air. A compressed-air system has three primary functional subsystems: supply, transmission, and demand. Brief descriptions of each follow: 1. Supply: conversion of primary energy resource to compressed-air energy. The supply subsystem includes generation, treatment, primary storage, piping, controls, performance measurement equipment, and reporting systems. 2. Transmission: movement of compressed-air energy from point of generation to end use. The transmission subsystem includes distribution piping mainline and branch headers, piping drops, secondary storage, and transmission controls. 3. Demand: the total of all compressed-air consumers, including productive end-use applications and various forms of compressed-air waste. The demand subsystems include all end uses, point-of-use piping, secondary storage, and point-of-use controls. Air compressors are the primary energy consumer in a compressed-air system and are the primary focus of this protocol.1 Brief summaries for other common compressed-air energy- efficiency measures affiliated with components of the transmission and demand subsystems are provided in Section 2.1. The four compressed-air energy-efficiency measures addressed in this protocol are as follows: 1. Variable speed drive (VSD) compressor replacing constant-speed compressor 2. Compressor control system upgrades and optimization sequencing in mu