Case New Holland
Goodfield, Illinois
Intern: Mrunal Patel
University of Illinois at Chicago
Case New Holland (CNH) designs and manufactures agricultural and construction equipment. The Goodfield plant manufactures components for soil tillage equipment, with a workforce of 450 employees and over 250,000 ft2 of processing floor space.
The student intern focused on several energy efficiency and waste reduction projects.
Results:
The intern made the following recommendations:
- Contract with a compressor service to conduct a survey of the compressed air system to identify leakage and waste of compressed air. This project has the potential to save over $25,000 a year
- Use the current metal scrap recycling vendor to recycle shot blast waste. This project has the potential to save $22,000 a year.
- Expand the recycling program to the entire facility. This project has the potential to decrease the amount of garbage sent to the landfill by an estimated 60%-70%, for a savings totaling $7,000 per year.
- Replace all personal fans and six large ceiling fans with high-volume low speed fans. This project could save $5,800 in electricity costs and $30,000 in natural gas costs, while reducing CO2 emissions by 325 tons. Employee comfort and productivity could also improve. With utility rebates, the payback period would be 4.8 years.
- Replace all leftover T12 fixtures with 32W T8 fixtures to save $4,135 a year in energy costs.
- Install occupancy sensors and hand dryers in the west bathrooms, along with vending miser. These projects together have the potential to save almost $3,000 a year.
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