Pythia Industries

Sample Plant

Premises

Air lost to leaks
  • About 10 percent of the compressors' electricity is lost to leaks that can be found and fixed.
  • We heard no leak on the walk, so this share is assumed.
  • The guidance puts leaks at 20 to 30 percent of the air where nobody looks for them.
  • If this is wrong: the reading at a meal break finds the compressors pumping for less than about two of twenty minutes, and there is little to find.
Pressure above the need
  • The compressors' setting stands about 6 psi above what the presses need.
  • We read no gauge and no panel, so these psi are assumed and there may be none.
  • If this is wrong: the panel's pressure is within a few psi of the highest set at any press, and the setting stays where it is.
  • Each two psi that does come off is worth about $720 per year.
Compressors' share of the bill
  • About 12 percent of the electricity bill goes to the compressors.
  • The bills give one total for the plant, so this is our estimate from the compressors' rated power.
  • If this is wrong: the running hours on each panel add up to less, and the figure falls with the share.
  • Each point of the share is worth about $780 per year.

Illustrative sample. The plant, the walk and the footage are synthetic.