BOC Hartford, Illinois facility recognized for environmental excellence; Plant increases capacity while reducing power consumption and eliminating use of refrigerants.Business Editors MURRAY HILL Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
BOC's Hartford, Illinois air separation plant has received the Compressed Gas Association's (CGA (Color/Graphics Adapter) The first video display standard for the IBM PC. This low-resolution system was superseded by EGA and then VGA. CGA required a digital RGB Color Display monitor. See PC display modes. CGA - Color Graphics Adapter ) 2003 Environmental Recognition Award for environmental excellence. CGA granted BOC (Bell Operating Company) One of 22 companies that was formerly part of AT&T and later organized into seven regional companies. See RBOC. the award in recognition of the Hartford plant's efforts to decrease power consumption by 320 kilowatts per hour while also avoiding the use of an ozone-depleting refrigerant re·frig·er·ant adj. 1. Cooling or freezing; refrigerating. 2. Reducing fever. n. 1. A substance, such as air, ammonia, water, or carbon dioxide, used to provide cooling either as the working substance of . Bill Brown, manager of the Hartford plant, said, "Initial plans for increasing production capacity called for installing a refrigeration refrigeration, process for drawing heat from substances to lower their temperature, often for purposes of preservation. Refrigeration in its modern, portable form also depends on insulating materials that are thin yet effective. system. Instead of using a chemical refrigerant, we decided to use an existing source of colder city water. By the time we completed our plant upgrade, we had significantly reduced the plant's power requirements and eliminated the need for refrigerants Chemical refrigerants are assigned an R number(sometimes the label replaces it with the word Freon) which is determined systematically according to molecular structure. The following is a list of refrigerants with their R numbers, IUPAC chemical name, molecular formula, and CAS number. in the pre-cooling system without appreciably increasing our water usage." CGA established its environmental recognition award program in 2001 to recognize CGA members who have demonstrated excellence through environmental accomplishments. The program enables CGA to identify and share good environmental practices and promote environmental awareness within the industry. The Hartford plant is the second BOC plant to receive a CGA environmental award. To be considered for an environmental award, a nominee -- a company or a location -- must demonstrate that its environmental performance goes beyond compliance, results in lasting environmental benefit to the local community, is innovative, participative and cost-effective. "We strongly support the CGA award program," said Jim Merriam, manager, environmental affairs, BOC. "We believe it is in the best interests of our company and the industry to raise the bar of environmental performance. We are very proud of the Hartford plant and the people who work there. They have demonstrated what can be done and, in so doing, challenged all of us to rise to their level." The BOC Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BOX), the worldwide industrial gases, vacuum technologies and distribution services company, serves two million customers in more than 50 countries. It employs 46,000 people and had annual sales of some $6 billion in 2002. Further information about The BOC Group may be obtained on the Internet at http://www.boc.com. |
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