AN-001332 / © 2010 Micro Motion, Inc. All rights reserved. For more information: www.EmersonProcess.com/solutions/chemical www.micromotion.com Measuring Nitrogen Gas Usage Brings Major Savings to Recycler BENEFITS • 72% reduction in N 2 usage • Improvements in work practices • Improvements in accounting usage plant wide • Avoided unnecessary capital investment APPLICATION A large aluminum recycler uses nitrogen across the entire plant. Nitrogen is used for cover gas or in place of moist plant air for many applications, such as purging soda silos and purging Cl 2 lines. Consumption had been going up and the N 2 supplier was telling the recycler that at the current rate of use they would require a second supply plant on site. The cost of the second plant would be $1.3 million. CHAL

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