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Carrollton, Kentucky Site Receives ACC Energy Efficiency Award
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has recognized Dow Corning with a Responsible Care® Energy Efficiency Award for reducing
CO2 emissions about the equivalent of 600 cars, and saving
enough energy to heat 500 homes. This is the fifth Energy Efficiency
Award Dow Corning has received in the last four years.
Dow Corning’s Carrollton, Kentucky site was selected for “Good control
improves distillation efficiency” in the category of Significant Improvement in
Manufacturing - Operating Unit. The energy used for distillation is
typically one of the largest components of a site’s total energy usage. Many
distillation columns operate the same way year after year, and not running at
optimum conditions compounds energy losses. The Carrollton site implemented a
Six Sigma project to bring a column up to peak efficiency, and then replicate
the results on a similar process.
"This is another great example of using Six Sigma to drive
sustainability, reducing both our CO2 footprint and our energy
costs," said Peter Cartwright
(PDF Size = 40.5 KB), Dow Corning executive director for environment, health
and safety. “Our employees deserve this recognition for their hard work and
dedication as they continually look for solutions to improve our processes and
technology.”
Annualized energy savings from this project are over 25% of the columns
steam usage, around 60,000 MMBtu, with associated CO2 emissions
reductions of almost 3,500 tons. To put this in perspective, the
CO2 reduction is the same as getting over 600 cars off the road
and the energy saved could heat nearly 500 Kentucky homes all
year!
The Carrollton site was formally recognized as a winner of a 2007
Responsible Care® Energy Efficiency Award at the Industrial Energy Technology
Conference (IETC) in New Orleans in May, in addition to the ACC’s annual Responsible Care® Conference in April and Annual Meeting in June.
About Dow Corning
Dow Corning provides performance-enhancing solutions to serve the diverse
needs of more than 25,000 customers worldwide. A global leader in silicon-based
technology and innovation, offering more than 7,000 products and services Dow
Corning is equally owned by The Dow Chemical Company and Corning, Incorporated.
More than half of Dow Corning’s annual sales are outside the United States
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