Time to Get Involved: Energy Efficiency Programs and Utilities Promote Pump Systems Optimization

Pumps & Systems, January 2008

Last month we looked at possible ways to optimize pumping systems. This month we'll look at some energy efficiency organizations and utilities that have taken on the challenge.

As sponsors of Pump Systems Matters (PSM), these organizations have spearheaded regional programs that include financial incentives for more energy efficient systems, workshops, training sessions, and total facility assessments. Their optimization programs emphasize the PSM systems approach, offering an effective model for other utilities and state/provincial/regional energy efficiency initiatives throughout North America to emulate.

Energy Efficiency Programs:

Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance

The Northwest pulp and paper industry represents the largest consumer of industrial power in the region, accounting for approximately 1300 average megawatt (aMW). Regional mills use a combination of biomass and fossil fuels to run their manufacturing operations. However, approximately 40 percent of the industry's overall energy expense can be directly attributed to costs associated with electricity.

The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance's (NEEA) industrial initiative created the Continuous Energy Improvement program to help Northwest pulp and paper mills control costs, enhance business performance and reduce environmental impact. The Continuous Energy Improvement program can save pulp and paper mills as much as five percent in energy costs without capital improvements. However, it's not unusual for companies to realize as much as 15 to 20 percent in total savings when Continuous Energy Improvement is combined with an effective "capital plan."

Implementing Continuous Energy Improvement

The program identifies the following key initiatives to enable mills to achieve their full energy productivity potential:

1. Organizational Structure - Securing a commitment from senior management is just as important to strategic energy management as appointing and engaging an energy team.
2. People - Providing employees with the skills and motivation to drive energy efficiency and supply improvements throughout an organization can lead to dramatic improvements - particularly if employees are aware of the benefits and trained to manage energy for maximum productivity and effectiveness.
3. Manufacturing Systems - Greater efficiency improves electric consumption and reduces wear and tear from heat and vibration, lengthening the lifespan of equipment and reducing downtime. Continuous Energy Improvement helps avoid "lost" energy that might otherwise create system inefficiencies and destroy equipment.
4. Measurement - Measurement is critical for tracking energy consumption and measuring success. With help from Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), companies can measure energy savings at the plant, product line and systems levels to support the progress of a strategic energy management plan. In addition, KPIs provide employees with a way to gauge individual performance against company and industry performance.

Figure 1. Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance's Continuous Energy Improvement Program

Energy Efficiency Means Greater Reliability

In 2006, Grays Harbor Paper LP - a nonintegrated producer of uncoated freesheet, specialty grade and 100 percent post-consumer recycled office paper - adopted this program.

To address its priorities for energy savings, Grays Harbor Paper worked with Grays Harbor Public Utility District (its local utility), Bonneville Power Administration and NEEA to assign a seasoned energy engineer to manage the company's energy issues as part of a long-term demonstration project. Grays Harbor Paper's energy champion Henry Bisner ensures the energy management program stays on course and achieves the desired objectives. Working with the management team and floor staff, Bisner's ultimate goal is to help the company realize a 10 percent energy savings.

After evaluating the pump systems, Bisner determined the mill could achieve greater efficiency and reliability through control valve adjustments. Variable speed drives (VSD) enabled the mill to control the speed of motors in several pump applications and reduce wear and tear on the pump systems.

Also, an additional small pump was added to assist the couch pit pump to process trim from the company's No.1 paper machine. Originally the pump worked at partial capacity 98 percent of the time to process trim. The machine's valve closed to maintain the appropriate levels of trim in the couch pit, and the pump worked harder than necessary to apply force against the valve. Now "if an employee puts all of the sheets into the couch, the large pump could run at maximum effectiveness, but if the team is working with less material, the small pump could be employed," Bisner explains.

More Energy Efficiency at Grays Harbor Paper

Grays Harbor Paper is identifying KPIs and measuring success against pre-established energy consumption goals. According to Mike Roberts, Director of Pulp and Paper for the Industrial Efficiency Alliance, KPIs play an important role in Grays Harbor's continuous energy improvement program. "KPIs measure energy savings at the plant, product line and systems levels in support of the progress of Grays Harbor Paper's strategic energy management plan," says Roberts.

For example, to set KPIs for the No.1 paper machine and couch trim pump, Bisner used the DOE Pumping System Assessment Tool (PSAT) (available on http://www.pumpsystemsmatter.org/) to evaluate the amount of energy required to run the new couch pump system. Estimated energy savings for this project are now set at 281,000-kWh/yr.

The focus on continuous improvement starts at the top of the organization and is integral to the company's business practices.

"We set up a formal energy policy, which has helped us communicate our energy savings plan to all of our employees and to think very strategically about every decision we make from purchasing to capital improvements," says Bob Brennand, mill manager at Grays Harbor Paper. "It also got us started in tracking our energy consumption on a regular basis."

Today, Grays Harbor Paper has a list of more than 50 planned energy savings projects, ranging from lighting to vacuum and compressed air systems and from pumping and mechanical systems to thermal energy projects. The total estimated savings for all of these projects combined is nearly 8 million kWh/yr.

The above was adapted from an article in P&P Magazine

Wisconsin Focus on Energy

Like the Northwest Energy Alliance, Wisconsin's Focus on Energy strives to reduce electric energy and demand in the industrial sector. It promotes energy efficiency best practices through educational tools, direct technical support and financial incentives targeted for pump system users. Pumping systems use a large percentage of electric energy in industrial facilities such as the Pulp and Paper industries and the Water/Wastewater industries. 

The justification for this public benefits program touches three different economic realities:

• Wisconsin pays $6 billion to out of state providers of coal and natural gas. Money saved by reducing energy costs can stay in the state and support Wisconsin's economy and jobs.
• Individual companies can improve their competitive advantage and survival rates by reducing energy costs.
• Energy utility ratepayers see lower energy bills when fewer new power plants are required to meet demand. U.S. power plants are costing over $2,000 per kW to build. Focus on Energy has reduced demand at a cost less than $400 per kW, a considerable savings for ratepayers that helps keep future rates lower for everyone.

About 36 percent of Wisconsin's 70+ billion kWh use is by the industrial sector. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that motors account for 60 percent of industrial use. Pumping systems use about 25 percent of this amount. Doing the math, Wisconsin's pumping energy is an estimated 3.8 billion kWh. Wisconsin estimates a pump system energy savings potential of close to 20 percent or about 750 million kWh. 

These economic gains also come with environmental benefits, through reduced greenhouse gases, mercury, nitrous oxides and sulfur dioxide generation. 

Practical Energy Management, Training, and Incentives

Focus on Energy approached pump systems efficiency with an internally developed tool called Practical Energy Management^© (PEM). PEM serves as a basic template for companies to conduct systematic, ongoing energy management by developing facility profiles, key performance indicators, strategic management plans and tactical project priority plans. Assessment spreadsheets for best practices in common systems enable first cut estimates of the potential energy savings. Best practices for pumps are:

• Using Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) instead of bypass control
• Using VFD instead of throttled control
• Trimming impeller to meet maximum demand
• Minimize pressure drop in system
• Reducing fluid flow requirements

More than 700 companies have been trained in the PEM approach. It helps companies set up their own customized energy management where they can identify energy efficiency on their own and prioritize and capitalize projects in a manner consistent with internal corporate goals.

Building on the PEM "first cut" assessment is pump system efficiency training for targeted industry pump markets, like water and wastewater municipal facilities (about 450 total) and pulp and paper mills. In the pulp and paper market, Focus cosponsored a targeted pump learning event with the Technical Association for Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI). Focus also helped provide the first Energy Forum for the Pulp and Paper industry, where one of the key presentations was on pump system efficiency opportunities in the paper industry.

The Department of Energy provided Pump System Specialist qualification training in Wisconsin, a great opportunity for local engineering firms and program staff to get started in becoming Qualified Specialists in Pump Systems and learning how to use the DOE Pump Systems Assessment Tool (PSAT). A recently awarded U.S. DOE grant, through Wisconsin's Office of Energy Independence, will help Focus triple the full facility pump assessments in the state and support the development of additional Pump System Qualified Specialists in Wisconsin.

Focus has also developed specific incentives for using Variable Frequency Drives and targeted assessments in the pulp and paper market that provide facility managers actionable information on pump system efficiency opportunities.

Focus on Energy continues to build its comprehensive approach for pump system efficiency improvements in the industrial sector. Each year the amount of program savings from pump efficiency grows. Much of the success so far can be tied to working closely with associations both in industrial market clusters and within the pump manufacturing industry, including Pump Systems Matter. In the fiscal year 2007, the Focus on Energy industrial program is setting a goal of about 10 million kWh of savings and one megawatt of demand reduction from pump system efficiency.

Focus on Energy was one of the first PSM sponsors outside the pump industry. As a Board member, Focus on Energy's industrial sector manager, John Nicol, has helped develop new approaches, strategies and tools to increase the awareness and implementation of pump system efficiency opportunities. 

Utilities:

BC Hydro

Utilities have also spurred energy savings with pumping systems throughout the United States and Canada.

In British Columbia (BC), the Provincial Government recently issued The BC Energy Plan - A Vision for Clean Energy Leadership, with the goal of energy conservation providing 50 percent of BC Hydro's incremental resource requirements by 2020.

Figure 2. Demand for electricity in British Columbia is expected to increase by as much as 45 percent by 2025. To close the growing electricity gap between existing supply and demand, we need to conserve more, buy more from independent power producers and reinvest in existing assets. We also need to consider new, dependable resources.

 

 

BC Hydro's Power Smart group is responsible for designing and implementing programs that will deliver energy savings (GWh/year) towards the conservation goal of 10,000-GWh/year by 2020. As other energy efficiency programs and utilities have discovered, a large portion of the opportunities to achieve this conservation goal is expected to come from the industrial sector.

The Power Smart group has developed a comprehensive and integrated set of conservation programs and initiatives for industrial customers under the Power Smart Partners (PSP) brand. The intent of these programs is to assist the industrial customer move up the energy management continuum towards the development of a Sustainable Energy Management Program (SEMP). This program design focuses on delivering continuous energy improvement and focuses on three key areas: People, Process and Projects.

People and Process initiatives include funding and educational components to uncover and implement behavior and business or operational process improvements that will enable energy savings. Customers also receive additional benefits such as improved reliability and productivity or reduced waste and bottom line cost savings. Project programs revolve around incentive funding (or rate based incentives) to assist the customer in implementing capital improvements that will result in energy savings.

Figure 3. Continuous Energy Management Improvement

One particular program, the Pump Systems Initiative (PSI), provides funding and support to Identify, Investigate and Implement pump system improvements. The steps include:

 

 

 

1. Identify - Pump Systems Assessment

The PSI Assessment includes levels depending on customer pump load: Gold (>50-GWh pump load), Silver (between 10-GWh and 50-GWh) and Bronze (<10-GWh). The elements include:

The Custom Workshop

The custom workshop is generally facilitated by a contracted pump expert. The DOE Pump System Assessment one-day workshop is recommended. Participants should ideally apply what they have learned to their own pump data (e.g. conduct PSAT analysis).

Other workshop options are the PSM Management Webcast, the one-day Pump Systems Optimization course, or the Industrial Energy Alliance's Energy Efficiency Fundamentals for Pumping Systems. BC Hydro personnel may facilitate the workshop - typically for higher-level presentations and smaller pump loads (<50 GWh).

Onsite Pump System Assessment

BC Hydro commissioned pump expert Gunnar Hovstadius to lead the development of a Pump Systems Basic Assessment Guide. Cobranded with Pump Systems Matter, it is available on both websites. This guide provides a methodology for approaching a pump systems plant-wide assessment and effectively identifying the priority pump systems for further investigation (see sidebar).

Final Deliverable

The final deliverable will provide a prioritized list of pump systems for further investigation. Within the scope of work for the Assessment, the customer has the opportunity to provide their requirements for a final deliverable and criteria by which systems should be ranked (e.g. maintenance costs, energy costs, etc.). The report should also identify any "low-hanging fruit" that can be acted on without further study, if they exist.

2. Investigate - Pump System Energy Study

This phase is supported by the Energy Studies initiative, which draws its funding from the Energy Savings Opportunity (ESO) fund. Funding for Pump System Energy Studies will follow the Energy Studies Initiative, which is typically 50 percent (current promotion 75 percent until February 28) with the potential for reimbursement of the balance if recommendations are implemented.

The deliverable of the Assessment is intended to provide a turn-key proposal and Power Smart application for Energy Studies. The intention is for customers to select a number of the highest priority pump systems to be bundled into an Energy Study application. Further, one Assessment is intended to generate multiple rounds of Energy Studies.

3. Implement - Stepped Rates

As of April 2006, all large industrial BC Hydro customers served at transmission voltage are on a "Stepped Rate" that acts as a price signal to be more energy-efficient. In this inverted block rate, the first 90 percent of electricity purchased by a customer is at a significantly lower price versus the balance consumed. The "Tier 2" rate approximately doubles the return on energy savings compared to the former flat rate.

Future Trends

PSI is currently targeted at large industrial customers (pulp and paper, mining, oil refining, etc.) and focused on centrifugal pumps. Other technologies, such as vacuum pumping systems and MC pumps, are also being investigated for conservation opportunities.

A water and wastewater targeted offer is in development. This initiative is likely to leverage Energy Star's new Portfolio Manager benchmarking tool for wastewater facilities (a pump station benchmarking tool is currently in development).

Within the current program offering, BC Hydro is working to leverage and unite initiatives within customer sites to increase benefit. Motor management programs are already being utilized to provide a starting point for driven equipment initiatives, such as pump systems. Other potential examples include continuously monitoring a pump system optimization project through the Monitoring, Targeting and Reporting (M,T&R) initiative, or identifying pump system throttling losses in control valves within a Process Controls project.

Manitoba Hydro

A Crown Corporation headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba Hydro is the province's major energy utility and one of the largest energy utilities in Canada. It exports electricity to over 30 electric utilities through participation in four wholesale markets in Canada and the Midwestern United States.

Manitoba Hydro is the lowest cost provider of domestic electricity rates in Canada and serves 516,800 electric customers throughout Manitoba and 259,500 gas customers throughout southern Manitoba. It offers a wide range of energy services and programs to customers, either directly or through subsidiaries. Nearly all electricity generated is from self-renewing water power from 14 hydroelectric generating stations, primarily on the Winnipeg, Saskatchewan and Nelson rivers.

As the major distributor of natural gas in the province, Manitoba Hydro delivers natural gas to nearly 100 communities in the province. It has capital assets-in-service at original cost exceeding $11 billion.

The Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board governs the corporation. Members are appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

Manitoba Hydro's Performance Optimization Program started in the early 1990s, providing industrial and large commercial customers with the technical support and financial incentives necessary to identify, investigate and implement system efficiency improvements throughout a facility.

Similar to other programs from PSM sponsors, this program promotes energy efficiency through the optimization of three phase electrical power end-use systems including compressed air, pumps and fans, industrial refrigeration, process heating, electrochemical processes and plant-wide energy management systems. The benefits of improved system performance include reduced energy consumption, maintenance and environmental impact; greater reliability and efficiency; and improved financial performance.

The Performance Optimization Program also promotes a systems rather than component approach. A systems approach recognizes opportunities for energy savings in both the supply side (equipment and controls) and the demand side (distribution network and end uses). In many applications, the majority of energy savings are realized in the demand side of the system.

The step-by-step evaluation of a system should identify practical, economic measures that satisfy operational requirements and minimize energy input. For each area of the system, current conditions and operating parameters must be established and energy savings opportunities must be identified and evaluated. Viable options will then be implemented.

Techniques and measures that can be used to improve energy efficiency include:

• End Use: Eliminate poor or inefficient use of compressed air, water, ventilation air, etc. like excessive consumption, leaks, open blowing for cooling or cleaning, end uses with higher pressure than necessary, recirculation and bypass loops, and inefficient pneumatic tools.
• Distribution Network: Implement measures that reduce flow resistance such as increasing pipe or duct diameter, streamlining pipe or duct layouts, increasing system storage capacity, and introducing controls to isolate pipe or duct sections when not in use.
• Supply Equipment: Select equipment that operates at higher efficiency by upgrading or resizing, use of pony pumps or booster fans, and impeller trimming.
• Controls: Adopt measures that provide automatic control of equipment to sequence or stop equipment when it is not required, or measures that permit flow control by speed adjustment rather than by throttle valves or dampers.

Pumping Systems offer ever-increasing opportunities for savings in the Performance Optimization Program. Most pumps are designed to operate between 60 to 80 percent or greater efficiency, yet the average actual operational efficiency is less than 45 percent and some systems run even less than 10 percent efficiency. Any energy that is not transferred to the fluid is absorbed through vibration and heat, which contribute to reduced pump performance and reliability. Manitoba Hydro provides assistance in the analysis of pumping system through seminars and scoping studies.

Seminars (part of basic customer service) are customized and include topics like pump basics, efficiency, operating points, variable speed pumping, reliability, and the systems approach. The biannual Manitoba Pump Users Conference, planned around the PSM two-day Pump Systems Optimization course (Spring 2008), brings together all pump users to educate themselves on a variety of topics.

Scoping Studies (part of basic customer service) measure the performance and power consumption of a pumping system. Instrumentation is placed on the customer's pumping system to monitor the operating characteristics. The resulting data forms the baseline energy consumption and operating parameters of the system, and identifies energy savings and performance improvement opportunities.

The Scoping Study usually leads to a Feasibility Study that more accurately details the project options, capital costs, energy savings, operational and reliability improvements, and also calculates the Performance Optimization Program incentive that reduces the capital cost of a project.

Manitoba Hydro works closely with PSM on a number of external and internal projects, most recently an online seminar for management and an investigation into VFD control of boiler feed water pumps. Participation in seminars is improving even more with the experts from PSM conducting most of the courses.

Manitoba Hydro has completed or has identified over 50 pumping projects with excellent savings opportunities for customers. Martin Bima, Manitoba Hydro's Industrial Systems Engineer said, "We have already seen some incredible pump systems savings, and with our partnership with Pump Systems Matter, we can expect this to accelerate and help more of our customers get better control of their pumping system energy and maintenance costs." 

Xcel Energy

Xcel Energy, an electric and natural gas utility serving business and residential customers in eight Western and Midwestern states, also offers business customers energy conservation and energy management products that help increase energy efficiency, reduce operating costs and improve business bottom line.

With conservation programs available to customers since the mid-1980s, Xcel Energy is now aggressively pursuing energy-efficiency and savings at the systems versus component level.

Like many other utilities, Xcel Energy offers rebate incentives for businesses to purchase energy-efficient components. This approach promotes energy-efficiency by reducing initial cost but leaves many more energy-saving dollars on the table. Component-level purchasing can produce unnecessary, expensive energy consumption and higher maintenance costs because you've haven't necessarily addressed what was wrong with the whole system. 

ConservationWise from Xcel Energy offers funding for studies that help business (commercial and industrial) customers assess their situations/buildings and recommend energy-saving improvements based on the systems approach and long-term conservation planning.

• Compressed Air Efficiency pays for a percentage of study costs dependent on compressor size and based on energy savings. Rebates for components are substantially higher when approved through a completed study.
• Efficiency Proposal offers incentives through an RFP process that helps business customers incorporate energy efficiency into their long-term plans for equipment purchases and manufacturing process design.
• Process Efficiency works with large industrial customers to identify energy conservation opportunities and design a 3 to 5 year energy management plan.
• Energy Analysis offers on-site and online energy assessments, plus an in-depth engineering assistance study to analyze total-building cooling systems, refrigeration, space or process heating, or custom projects.
• Recommissioning helps business and industrial customers reduce their energy costs by improving the efficiency of their buildings' existing mechanical systems with a building system tune up implementing low-or no-cost adjustments.

The more advanced programs encourage a systems approach to building compressed air, HVAC and pumping systems and industrial processes.

Xcel Energy works closely with industrial customers to incorporate energy-efficiency into a comprehensive plan. Customers can use Xcel's study dollars to help analyze their current system and identify options to improve energy efficiency.

Xcel Energy also relies heavily on trade partnerships to understand the market from the trade's point of view and the role different members play. Xcel Energy tries to educate the trade about utility conservation through the systems approach. The upside, in terms of revenue and customer satisfaction and loyalty, makes the systems approach a significant opportunity for growing a supplier's business.

Another opportunity to increase energy efficiency potential and overall trade education exists through organizations like PSM. According to product portfolio manager Tami Gunderzik, Xcel Energy looks to PSM as a "‘one-stop' source for resources on energy-efficiency in the pumping systems industry."  PSM can help by:

• Raising customer awareness that the total systems approach can reduce their total energy bill
• Influencing manufacturers to build more efficiency into total systems so that customers will willingly evaluate their systems rather than replace only individual pieces of equipment
• Identifying savings opportunities that benefit utility customers and help the trade sell their products and services that promote energy-efficiency
• Facilitating candid interaction between utilities, the trade and customers to identify and implement long-term, total building or process energy conservation measures
• Developing and implementing training and certification
• Increasing performance standards to meet customer demand as the public becomes more aware of carbon credits and other environmental concerns related to energy

With energy efficiency programs and utility sponsors from Pump Systems Matter leading the way, 2008 is a great year to get involved in the systems approach to optimization.  For more information on these organizations and regional energy efficiency programs, contact Pump Systems Matter.

Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, 529 SW Third Ave, Suite 600, Portland, OR 97204, 503-827-8416 (Toll-Free 1-800-411-0834), Fax: 503-827-8437, http://www.nwalliance.org/.

Wisconsin Focus on Energy Industrial Program, 5609 Medical Circle #201, Madison, WI  53719, 800-762-7077, http://www.focusonenergy.com/.

BC Hydro, 333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B 5R3, 800-224-9376, http://www.bchydro.com/.

Manitoba Hydro, 820 Taylor Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3M 3T1, 204-474-3311, http://www.hydro.mb.ca/.

Xcel Energy, 414 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55401-1993, 800-328-8226, http://www.xcelenergy.com/.

The Hydraulic Institute

Hydraulic Institute (HI), the largest association of pump producers in North America, serves member companies and pump users worldwide by developing comprehensive industry standards, expanding knowledge by providing education and training, and serving as a forum for the exchange of industry information.

In addition to the ANSI/HI pump standards, HI has a variety of technical resources including comprehensive pump standards, Pump Life Cycle Costing and Variable Speed Drive guidebooks, "7 Ways To Save Energy" video-based training program and more.

Hydraulic Institute, 9 Sylvan Way, Parsippany, NJ 07054, 973-267-9700, Fax: 973-267-9055, http://www.pumps.org/, http://www.pumplearning.org/.

Pump System Basic Assessment Guide

One of the more recent deliverables currently available as a free download on http://www.pumpsystemsmatter.org/ is the "Pump System Basic Assessment Guide." PSM sponsors, with leadership from BC Hydro, felt it was important to develop a guideline to outline the process of a basic pump system assessment. These sponsors felt that having consistent approaches, formats and deliverables are important aspects of a successful market transformation effort. This key deliverable, the "Pump System Basic Assessment Guide," identifies pump systems that could be investigated further for cost-effective system improvements.

Facilities often engage a pump system expert to lead the assessment. A pump system expert has obtained formalized training, such as the Pump System Specialist training program provided by the Department of Energy (DOE) and has some practical experience working in the field.

The pump system assessment involves a series of steps, carried out in advance at the site and after the on-site investigation. It concludes with a detailed report to the plant managers.

• Step 1. Preliminary Steps. Before an assessment starts, plant personnel committed to being active in the assessment process will gather some preliminary data about the plant pumping systems. The PSM website has a Pump System Prescreening form.
• Step 2. Assessment Meeting Onsite. The first assessment meeting reviews the work to be done and an assessment action plan starts to formulate.
• Step 3. Onsite Inspection. After the initial meeting, the assessor and the site lead will carry out a visual inspection of the plant in general with focus on systems identified as priorities.
• Step 4.  Gathering Data. Readily available data will be gathered. This includes data from the equipment name plates, pump curves and operational data such as flow rate, delivered pressure and power for the equipment that have been identified as priorities for the study.
• Step 5. Data Analysis. Data Analysis involves comparing the observed energy use to an optimum where the pump supplies the true system demand as efficiently as possible. True system demand is not what the pump delivers, but what is needed in terms of flow and head.
• Step 6.  Reporting. After completing the analysis, the assessor will write a report detailing the findings, usually in collaboration with the site staff involved in the assessment. The report should also include the savings opportunities and their potential size.

Many of the PSM sponsoring companies have resources and experienced personnel available to assist with pump systems assessments. For more information on the PSM sponsors, visit http://www.pumpsystemsmatter.org/.