Energy efficiency beyond the hype: Making a positive impact on industrial operations

Credit to Author: Aaron Dudley| Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 14:00:00 +0000

In today’s industrial landscape, facility managers juggle many challenges: uptime needs, spiraling energy costs, changing workforce demographics, and the urgent call for sustainable practices. Energy efficiency offers real solutions, but misconceptions often cloud the journey to value. This article dispels myths and highlights often-overlooked benefits…

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Process electrification in the chemical industry

Credit to Author: Yasmine McColl| Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:57:00 +0000

The chemical industry plays a vital role in providing essential materials and products for our society. Chemical industry growth is linked to population demand – as the population grows, greenhouse gas emissions increase. In 2021, global carbon dioxide emissions from energy combustion and industrial processes…

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Unlocking Success: 3 Crucial Factors Energy Management Addresses for Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturing

Credit to Author: Eric Meadows| Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000

According to a US Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory report, by 2030, US electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing capacity will need to support the production of 10 to 13 million all-electric vehicles annually. The report says that, over the same period, the total build-out…

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Focus on Hydrogen Safety Aligns with Growing Economy

Credit to Author: Constantine Lau| Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Hydrogen is projected to be a major source of clean energy that would be an integral part of energies and chemicals companies’ net-zero strategy, increasing the need for hydrogen safety processes, systems, and best practices. Hydrogen is a transportable energy carrier and has high energy…

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Unlocking your home’s potential: A beginner’s guide to electrification

Credit to Author: Pape Ndaw| Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:06:51 +0000

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of power outages. We played board games by candlelight and made shadows with flashlights in our makeshift blanket tents. Like now, we depended heavily on electricity, but our flickering candles during summer storms were the perfect backdrop to…

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How AI Can Accelerate the Transition to Green Hydrogen

Credit to Author: Shafeen Nayan Veettil Muhammed| Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:22:44 +0000

In his 1874 book The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne described a world where “water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of…

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How Recent Investments Bolster U.S. Energy Infrastructure. North America Leader Shares His Perspective

Credit to Author: Aamir Paul| Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:05:09 +0000

Editor’s note: The following post is a conversation between Politico energy reporter James Bikales and Aamir Paul, president, North America Operations for Schneider Electric. Aamir discusses the clean energy transition and what investments in electrification and digitization mean for the U.S. energy infrastructure. This interview…

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Software-based, real-time high availability comes to industrial automation control systems

Credit to Author: Domenico Napoli| Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:56:00 +0000

Controlling costs and remaining competitive continue to be important goals for any businesses, especially true in industrial automation. Deloitte recently identified some key trends for manufacturing operations, including the need to invest in smart technologies and smart factory transformation. The report notes that “companies with…

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