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Engineer Eric Ball said Orenco Systems in Sutherlin saves energy both inside the manufacturing firm and for its customers. Throughout its newly renovated 18,000-square-foot office building, Orenco installed several conservation features: double-paned windows; radiant heat that uses the newer “PEX” (cross-linked polyethylene) pipe in concrete floors; a cooling and heating system powered by natural gas that enables its office employees to adjust local air temperatures for maximum comfort and productivity; and high-efficiency, low-mercury fluorescent lights (T-5s).
To improve lighting in the office and the 120,000-square-foot manufacturing buildings, Orenco received an incentive payment from Energy Trust of Oregon and an Oregon Business Energy Tax Credit for five years. The firm expects to save over $6,000 a year in electricity for lighting and to recover its installation costs in two to three years.
Homeowners, businesses and public institutions that install Orenco’s AdvanTex® wastewater treatment system typically use less than five percent of the electricity other systems consume. The AdvanTex system separates bio-solids from effluent; then effluent water circulates through a textile medium where microbes in an oxygen-rich environment digest organic solids. Re-circulation pumps run just a few minutes a day; in other aerobic treatment units, air blowers run 24/7.
Then, clear water from an AdvanTex system can be dispersed into shallow drain field trenches or reused to irrigate golf courses and landscaping plants.
Eric Ball said Orenco, now employing 300 people, based its small-scale wastewater treatment system on decades of research—“ever since we started experimenting in our garages back in the early ‘70s.”
For more information: Eric Ball, professional engineer, 541.459.4449; 814 Airway Ave., Sutherlin, OR 97479. www.orenco.com
To improve lighting in the office and the 120,000-square-foot manufacturing buildings, Orenco received an incentive payment from Energy Trust of Oregon and an Oregon Business Energy Tax Credit for five years. The firm expects to save over $6,000 a year in electricity for lighting and to recover its installation costs in two to three years.
Homeowners, businesses and public institutions that install Orenco’s AdvanTex® wastewater treatment system typically use less than five percent of the electricity other systems consume. The AdvanTex system separates bio-solids from effluent; then effluent water circulates through a textile medium where microbes in an oxygen-rich environment digest organic solids. Re-circulation pumps run just a few minutes a day; in other aerobic treatment units, air blowers run 24/7.
Then, clear water from an AdvanTex system can be dispersed into shallow drain field trenches or reused to irrigate golf courses and landscaping plants.
Eric Ball said Orenco, now employing 300 people, based its small-scale wastewater treatment system on decades of research—“ever since we started experimenting in our garages back in the early ‘70s.”
For more information: Eric Ball, professional engineer, 541.459.4449; 814 Airway Ave., Sutherlin, OR 97479. www.orenco.com
