Cross Helps UVA Ensure Efficiency
The University of Virginia, located in Charlottesville, was founded in 1819. The school serves 17,000 undergraduates and 8,700 graduate students on a 1682-acre campus that consists of nine undergraduate and three professional schools. As one might imagine, the UVA campus, known locally as Grounds, uses an incredible amount of water, fossil fuels and power. Therefore, it’s critical the school’s utilities run as efficiently as possible. A loss of even 1% can lead to substantial costs, making precise monitoring key.
For this reason, UVA implemented a robust metering program utilizing many Flexim non-invasive ultrasonic flow meters. The Facilities Management team monitors the flow of water around campus with hundreds of flow meters to quickly identify if there is a leak or other issue. Recently, the team noticed a discrepancy in medium-temperature water metering in a couple of areas so they called in the flow experts at Cross Process Solutions to help.
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Need help tuning your boiler?
Boilers are critical in producing steam and hot water for your campus. They do however use a considerable amount of energy. Making sure your boilers are properly tuned can ensure that your facility is running as efficiently as possible.
Tuning your boilers can be tricky. Check out this article from one of our process control experts to learn about some advanced and unconventional ways to tune your combustion control system
Are you ready to update your legacy control system?
Cross Company has proven experience in migrating legacy hardware and software systems. Our proven process begins with a risk analysis and site review and discussion with our customer to discuss the end goals and critical aspects of each application.
We have the knowledge and expertise to extract the critical information from the existing configurations, graphics, and documentation and even your experienced operations and engineering personnel, a critical area of knowledge often overlooked.
Based on this assessment, we guide our customers through specific recommendations on a migration path best suited for your requirements to minimize cost, risk, and associated downtime.
From a simple HMI upgrade to the development of a five to ten-year migration plan for an entire campus, Cross Company can provide complete planning, engineering and commissioning to guide you through this process to successfully achieve your migration and business objectives.
Did you know?
Flexim ultrasonic flow meters can be used for verification of your existing flow meters with out a need to stop your process? Flexim meters clamp onto the outside of your pipe and provide highly accurate flow measurements. If you are interested in flow verification contact us today.
Cross Provides Tangible Value for You
Reduce Risk
Chilled water applications require the right control and isolation valves to ensure a tight seal, particularly during a routine maintenance shutdown or when working on a piping system that requires pump isolation.
We are proud to provide a number of high quality valves from brands like Jamesbury, that offer ball and butterfly valves for Class VI shutoffs with a flexible lip seat which is ideal for chilled water.
Raise Quality
Cross Process Solutions is here for your valve automation needs. We an help with a wide range of applications from steam or gas to liquid. If you need valves with a tight shut off to maintain steam quality trust the valve experts at Cross.
Improve Efficiency
SCADA architecture helps you control and monitor data from devices spread across your campus. Cross is a certified integrator for a number of SCADA solutions providers, including VTScada.
VTScada’s unique architecture integrates core SCADA components in a single installation, eliminating the need for multiple vendors and alleviating the frustration inherent in industrial software lifecycles, including pricing, licensing, development, and support.
