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Success Story
ESP Controls Upgrade Yields Substantial Payoffs
Proactive maintenance at electric generating stations is often complicated by regulatory uncertainty and/or limited budgets. Often, it takes time and patience to create justification for upgrades that will, in the long run, save money and reduce emissions. Yet the payoff can be huge.
At ecomaine, a waste-to-energy plant in Portland,Maine, an upgrade project on back-end, pollution capture equipment was a long time in the making but, when it finally happened, had positive effects far exceeding expectations.
The project involved installing new electrostatic precipitator power controls and rapping controls from Neundorfer. This was a relatively minor capital upgrade, intended to replace obsolete technology, ensure consistent compliance with recently updated heavy-metal emission limits, and hopefully save some energy. As it turned out, the new equipment had a much larger, positive impact than expected.
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