Maintain for Performance

摘要

I'm doing a detailed rundown of the steps you should take to wring the best oven and furnace efficiencies out of your high-priced energy supply. The first major step is getting the best performance you can from your existing equipment, before considering rebuilding or replacing anything. In my last column, we examined Part A of that step, refining your scheduling practices so your heating equipment operates at the lowest energy cost per unit of production. Part B is to maintain the equipment — specifically, bringing it up to the operating specifications it had when it was first commissioned. There are several areas of attention.