Green Cleaning: Steam Cleaning in Manufacturing and Food/Beverage Processing

In our recent blog, we discuss not only the history of steam cleaners, but more importantly we talk about the emergence of dry vapor steam cleaners within the US market.

In the post, Green Cleaning: The History of Steam Cleaners, we explain that dry vapor cleaning is an economical, eco-friendly and effective form of cleaning. At Goodway, we’re finding that these cleaners are particularly useful to the manufacturing and food/beverage processing industries.

Green Cleaning: The History of Steam Cleaners

Steam cleaning has been used for more than 150 years as a way to remove grease and oil from machinery, primarily on railways, ships, car/truck engines and on power stations.

In the 1960s-1970s, Italian boiler manufacturers purportedly started experimenting with steam vapor as a cleaning method. The steam vapor cleaning method was embraced by European manufacturers more than 30 years ago when they realized the potential cleaning power of highly pressurized, low moisture steam.

HVAC, Building Performance: Preventing Coil Corrosion

Hurricane conditions may cause more corrosive damage to HVAC systems than other factors that typically cause corrosion. The problem is that corrosion problems may not be apparent immediately, according to an article in ACHRNEWS.

However, as we gear up for the cooling season, these problems may become more evident to people living in areas impacted by the previous season’s hurricanes like Hurricane Sandy. Sandy impacted the east coast as it became the most destructive tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.

HVAC, Building Performance: Cooling Tower Maintenance & Goodway’s Cooling Tower Vacuum

We’ve talked about cooling tower maintenance quite a bit on the Goodway blog. And now that it’s spring and we’re starting to think about air conditioning maintenance, the subject is on our minds once again.

If you look back at past posts, you’ll see that the top two reasons for cooling tower maintenance resonate through them all: energy efficiency/system performance and health.

Often the importance of cooling tower efficiency is a bit overlooked because the focus is on chiller efficiency.

“Chillers use about five times the energy of the cooling tower. Consequently, more attention is paid to the chiller than the cooling tower in most facilities,” Steve Spielmann, Goodway’s Customer Service/Technical Manager, explains in this post about cooling tower maintenance.

Building Energy Efficiency: Restaurants Waste Energy In Different Ways

US businesses waste $60 billion yearly on energy, according to a recent report by E Source, which looks at energy data from various industries including retail, healthcare, data centers and manufacturing.

But restaurants, which are among the biggest energy wasters, waste energy differently than those other industries, explains Linda Hardesty of Energy Manager Today.

In most commercial businesses, energy use is attributed to lighting and HVAC use. But almost two-thirds of the energy use in restaurants is related to kitchen activities, according to the article.