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26 Apr 2006

Cut down on the carbs

Compressor manufacturers are looking for new ways to help their clients reduce losses and conserve energy, as Mark Venables reports.

Energy saving is one of the big trends driving compressor development in the current economic and political climate. To put energy waste into perspective, the

spends £60 billion a year on energy, yet some 20 per cent of that total — £12bn — is wasted. That is equal to one tenth of this country's gross trading profit.

'[Energy saving] is the way that most compressor manufacturers have to go as a result of

,' Geoff Taylor, managing director of

, said. 'With the Government's initiatives to reduce carbon and to invest in new technologies the compressor manufacturers have had to go along those lines.'

The Carbon Trust

says 73 per cent of the lifetime costs of an industrial screw compressor will be consumed in energy. The capital cost amounts to about 18 per cent of cost, maintenance about seven per cent and installation costs add another two per cent.

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