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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 1986699" data-attributes="member: 3099">Okay y&#039;all done went and made me do it.When you see the term &quot;encourage&quot; used this is codespeak for &quot;you will do it or else&quot;.&nbsp; Been there, done it and got the t-shirt.&nbsp; The EPA and their air quality permits are a nightmare.&nbsp; I can only imagine what it will be like with the The Departments of Energy, Commerce, and a gaggle of others tag teaming you.&nbsp; I picked this one to post because it fits perfectly with a place I used to work.&nbsp; I ran the chemical finishing part of the plant and I had to keep two very large boilers running to heat all of my cleaning, etching and anodize tanks.&nbsp; These boilers also heated about four tanker trucks worth of glycol for the heating system for the entire 135,000 square foot plant.&nbsp; These boilers were about 25 feet long and big enough to walk through.&nbsp; In the machine shop side one of our machines had six 30HP ACV drive motors and that was just for the cutting spindles, add in 12 more SCR servos for the drive axis&#039; (dual gantry 5 axis CNC mill with 3 spindles per gantry) and the fact that they were all 480V 3phase and you get an idea of the electrical load.&nbsp; Now this was just one single machine.&nbsp; We had about 70 machines total and most all of them were multi axis CNC mills and lathes and all on 480V 3 phase feeds.&nbsp; Putting in a co-generation system for even a fraction of this load would cost about the same as all of the rest of the capital equipment we had.&nbsp; Just another pie in the sky idea from dear leader who hasn&#039;t a clue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 1986699, member: 3099"] Okay y'all done went and made me do it. When you see the term "encourage" used this is codespeak for "you will do it or else". Been there, done it and got the t-shirt. The EPA and their air quality permits are a nightmare. I can only imagine what it will be like with the The Departments of Energy, Commerce, and a gaggle of others tag teaming you. I picked this one to post because it fits perfectly with a place I used to work. I ran the chemical finishing part of the plant and I had to keep two very large boilers running to heat all of my cleaning, etching and anodize tanks. These boilers also heated about four tanker trucks worth of glycol for the heating system for the entire 135,000 square foot plant. These boilers were about 25 feet long and big enough to walk through. In the machine shop side one of our machines had six 30HP ACV drive motors and that was just for the cutting spindles, add in 12 more SCR servos for the drive axis' (dual gantry 5 axis CNC mill with 3 spindles per gantry) and the fact that they were all 480V 3phase and you get an idea of the electrical load. Now this was just one single machine. We had about 70 machines total and most all of them were multi axis CNC mills and lathes and all on 480V 3 phase feeds. Putting in a co-generation system for even a fraction of this load would cost about the same as all of the rest of the capital equipment we had. Just another pie in the sky idea from dear leader who hasn't a clue. [/QUOTE]

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