KEH Energy Expertise

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This course features a program for auditing boiler plants but the title is deceptive. Efficiency doesn't cover it, what is important is economic operation. The KEH performance audit uses the same concept that's used for boiler efficiency, measuring losses, calculating them as a percent of input, and subtracting that result from 100% to determine efficiency.

The advantage of that method is clarified when evaluating options to improve the overall plant efficiency because one can attack the individual losses to produce a simple change in the overall percentage. All the common methods of improving performance are addressed along with a few that are typically ignored.

This seminar will address all the energy conservation measures required by EPA under the Area Source Boiler Rule and documentation will include spreadsheets for analyzing each one. While there is no rule for qualifying energy assessors the course provides enough guidance attendees would be able to declare themselves as one.

• Boiler systems: Feedwater, Combustion air, fuel blowdown, combustion control, steam, condensate return, hydronic heating and high temperature hot water
• Energy use systems: Comfort heating, Process heating, Compressed air, Drives for pumps and fans, Process cooling, air conditioning and humidification all directly provided for by affected boilers.
• Although not provided for by boilers, water consumption and users of electricity will be addressed

The standard myths are debunked.

• Low pressure boiler plants are not as efficient as high pressure plants, honest.
• Unless you're operating a very small boiler, contributions of operators exceed their cost.
• Postponing corrective action can result in costs that are multiples of that for the correction.
• Water is not so cheap that we can simply throw it away.
• Things in boiler plants seldom match up.
• While two can live as cheaply as one, it costs much more to run two when one would do.
• No two boilers are identical.

In addition to the two day seminar attendees will recieve follow-up notices from KEH regarding advances in technology, metallurgy, etc. that can be used to reduce plant costs. Cost is $3,300 plus travel and living expenses from Port Saint Lucie, Florida to your pre-arranged training site.