Efficiency Opportunities
Measure List
See below for a list of some of the typical energy-saving projects that are eligible for rebates or incentives under the Boiler Efficiency Program.
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- Heat Recovery
- Pipe, tank, heat exchanger, or other boiler-heated surface insulation
- Exhaust stack economizers (feedwater or condensing)
- Blowdown heat recovery
- Condensate recovery
- Mechanical Vapor Recompression and other custom energy efficiency upgrades for evaporators
- Thermosorber heat pump
- Flash steam recovery
- Process heat recovery
- Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs)
- Boiler burner combustion air fan VFDs
- Hot water pump VFDs (e.g., feedwater, condensate return)
- New Boilers
- High-efficiency non-condensing boilers
- Condensing boilers
- Direct-contact water heaters
- Repairs and Tune-Ups
- Replace old or failed steam traps
- Repair/replace control linkage
- Repair/replace failed blowdown controls or reduce excessive blowdown
- Reduce or eliminate boiler cycling
- Repair/replace failed or dirty heat exchanger or boiler economizer
- Replace boiler refractory
- Reduce boiler steam pressure or hot water supply temperature set points
- Repair/replace failed VFD
- Others
- Reverse osmosis water treatment systems
- High-efficiency boiler burners
- Electronic parallel positioning fuel-air controls (with or without oxygen trim control)