Environmental Business of the Year for 2009

Hamilton Sundstrand Worldwide Repair Miramar 

For more information contact: Yadira Monje, EH&S Specialist Hamilton Sundstrand Worldwide Repair Miramar 3601 Flamingo Rd Miramar, FL 33027 Yadira.Monje@hs.utc.com Business Size: Large Nature of Business: Aircraft repair
From left: Will Smith, Javier Nodarse, Luis Nolasco (repair technicians/chemical handlers); Alicia Pamies, HR Manager, Yadira Monje, Environment, Health and Safety Specialist; Miguel Narvaez, repair technician/chemical handler; Pierre Goulet, General Manager receive the Business of the Year Trophy from Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin.

• Annually establishing stringent goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). As illustrated in the table below, GHG Priority and Emissions come mainly from facility processes using chemical emissions, while GHG in the form of Carbon Dioxide Equivalence come from electricity used in kilowatts per hour translated into GHG emissions.

Categories affecting climate change GHG Emission Goals Actual GHG Emissions
Non-GHG Emissions - Priority 12,295 pounds 0
Non-GHG Air Emissions - Other 3,285 pounds 1,292 pounds
GHG Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Equivalance
(from electricity) 1,873 tonnes e CO2 1,368 tonnes eCO2

• Annually conduct, track and analyze energy audits
• Continuously educate employees on climate change and environmental issues during weekly and monthly departmental communication, in addition to an internal monthly newsletter discussing the environment energy savings. Promote “Ride your bike to Work Day”, carpooling and the use of public transportation
• Use of efficient lighting technologies throughout the facility
• Turn off all air conditioning units during unoccupied hours
• Maintenance schedule to repair leaks for our compressed air system as they occur
• West facing glass has light tint to reduce heat gain
• Process changes. Originally removed paint from components with methylene chloride, an organic compound thought to be carcinogenic. Changed to cleaning by sand blasting which eliminated an extremely hazardous chemical, but still required disposal of containmated sand. Subsequently changed from sand blasting to baking soda. The spent baking soda is not considered a waste because it is reused as a fire retardant.
• Certified by the United States Department of Energy for demonstrating exception leadership by completing energy savings assessments through the “Save Energy Now Program.”
• Recognized by Florida Power and Light for energy conservation and savings
• Use of two aqueous parts washers, which are less toxic than mineral spirits
• Other cleaning machines use petroleum solvent which is recycled
• Elimination of cyclohexane for cleaning purposes
• Recycle 24,859 pounds in 2009 for the following materials:
• Steel
• Aluminum
• Magnesium
• Plastic
• Paper
• Toner cartridges
• Batteries
• Reuse of materials including:
• Shipping container and boxes
• Wooden pallets
• Bubble wrap
• Drums
• Batteries
• Customers are highly encouraged to re-use their containers, Hamilton Sundstrand provides storage for them
• Installation of sink aerators for water savings
• Process improvement of cooling tower system. Cooling tower is main water consumption process at Hamilton Sundstrand. Due to evaporation, circulating water requires a make up water supply. Installation of by-pass loop valve converted system to closed-loop, resulting in 18,000 gallons/year water savings and zero discharge to sewer

Cyclone Technologies, Inc. For more information contact: Wilson McQueen, VP Marketing Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. 601 NE 26 Court Pompano Beach, FL 33064 954-943-8721 Web Site: www.cyclonepower.com Email: Wilson@cyclonepower.com Business Size: Small
Frankie Fruge, COO (left) and Harry Schoell, Inventor and CEO (right) stand beside the Cyclone Power Generator. It can burn any type of fuel including kerosene, diesel, alcohol, biofuels, propane, methane or wood chips.

Nature of Business: Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. is a research and development company with more than 68 patents, including patents for the development of the Green Revolution Engine and the Waste Heat Engine.

Cyclone Technologies' environmental achievements include:

• Cyclone holds the U.S. patent, international patent applications, and exclusive commercial rights to the Cyclone Engine "Green Revolution EngineTM" an environmentally-friendly and highly-efficient external combustion, heat-regenerative engine.
• The Cyclone engine regenerates (or recycles) its heat, which allows it to run cleaner, cooler and more efficiently than traditional internal combustion engines. It is capable of running on any liquid or gaseous fuel, including ethanol, bio-diesel, and propane (same engine with no changes) and is lubricated with de-ionized water instead of motor oil.
• The company also recently filed a patent application for its Waste Heat Engine, a low-pressure engine capable of running on heat emitted from external sources, including the waste exhaust of a another engine, bio-mass, or solar power.
• Both these engines are lubricated with de-ionized water instead of motor oil, and by eliminating many subsystems like oil pumps, radiators, catalytic converters and fuel injectors, the Cyclone Engines are expected to cost less to manufacture, operate, and maintain.

	If just 10% of consumers of lawn mowers in Florida switched to a Cyclone Engine, our air could be spared 127,200 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,200 pounds of nitrogen oxides and 3,360 pounds of particulates. Cyclone is in late stage development for the 3 hp engine that will go into push lawn mowers, to be consumer ready by 2010.
	The lower temperature and longer fuel combustion time of the Cyclone external combustion engine result in greatly reduced emissions if Nitrous Oxide, hydrocarbons, and other smog-producing greenhouse gases.

Cyclone engines can run on any liquid or gaseous fuel, including ethanol, bio-diesel, and propane (same engine with no changes). In fact, Cyclone has successfully tested its engine on fuels made from the peels of Florida-grown oranges.

Cyclone is in late stage development of the three horsepower (hp) engine that will go into push lawn mowers, and expects to be ready for consumer use by 2010.

	The Cyclone Engine in particular is highly scalable and sufficiently powerful for applications ranging from lawn equipment and small home generators, large stand-alone generators, to cars, trucks, buses, RV's, boats and ships, as well as earth moving equipment and locomotives.
	The anticipated costs for manufacturing a Cyclone Engine are comparable with similar sized internal combustion (I/C) engines. Since a Cyclone requires far fewer sub-systems such as oil pumps (the engine is lubricated with de-ionized water,) overall manufacturing and maintenance costs are expected to be less than an I/C.

• 18 hp engines for portable and standby generators
• 100 hp engines for industrial use generators, automobiles and other applications
• 330 hp engines for truck, city busses, postal and other government vehicles

Imperial Point Medical Center For more information, contact: Steve Fredrickson 6401 N. Federal Highway Ft Lauderdale, FL 33308 Phone: 954-776-8690 Fax: 954-776-8848 Email: sfredrickson@nbhd.org Web Site: http://www.browardhealth.org/
	Patricia O’Rourke and Dottie Mancini (center) and Steve Fredrickson (right), of Imperial Point Medical  Center accept Emerald Award Trophy from Broward County Mayor Kristin Jacobs.

 Business Size: Large

Nature of Business: Acute Care Hospital

Environmental Accomplishments:

• Changed from disposable to reusable wall-mounted sharps containers
• Incorporated the irrigation system into their energy management system. Now zones turn off and on based on weather conditions.Will not come on during rain. Irrigation flow is also monitored, and unusual increases in flow rate (potential leaks) will trigger an alarm and shut off the system. The system will identify the zone where the potential leak exists which facilitates repair.
• Decrease in biohazardous waste of 54% since 2000 due to employee education. Marked decrease due to special program with operating room orderlies.
• Blue towels on surgical trays now washed and reused as rags. Formerly disposed as biohazardous waste. Success of this program has been shared with other hospitals.
• Relocated biohazardous waste containers a few steps away from the regular trash. This action encourages staff to consciously think about whether an item is biohazardous or solid waste.
• Now have only one x-ray processor left on site (for use as a back up as needed). All other x-rays are now digitally processed. This has resulted in a 50% reduction in photochemical waste.
• $21,645 saved due to electricity use reduction and $11,876 was saved from natural gas reduction for a total of $33,521saved in fiscal year 2005.
• Applied a spray polyurethane foam (SPF) on their roof.SPF is sprayed directly on the existing roof surface to form a seamless, waterproof, insulated coating. This reflective coating saves money on cooling costs.

Environmental Business of the Year Winner For 2003

Uniweld Products Inc.

 - Large Business (16 or more employees)
David S. Pearl, II, Executive Vice President

Mayor Kristin Jacobs (left), David Pearl (center) and Rick Wilkins (right)

For additional information, contact:
Janet Beets, Director, Human Resources
2850 Ravenswood Road
Ft Lauderdale, FL 33312-4994
954-584-2000
Fax: 954-587-0109
www.uniweld.com
info@uniweld.com

Nature of Business: Manufacturer of U.S. made welding apparatus, refrigeration tools, accessories, pressure gauges and alloys.

• Green products: Sludge Sucker/Blaster and Weed Burner;
• Recycled 95% cardboard;
• Recycled 100% metal;
• Recycled 90% paper;
• Recycled 80% plastic on site then reused;
• Retrofit of 75 fluorescent fixtures (T8 with electronic ballasts) resulted in projected 17,520 Kwh savings per year;
• Replaced two old 10-ton, 6 SEER A/C units with one new 10-ton, 12 SEER unit;
• Created secondary containment pans for hazardous materials;
• Substituted powder paint/coating for lacquer paint;
• Replaced 4 of 5 perc machines for 2 aqueous cleaning machines;
• Installed lids on all solvents;
• Mist collection system installed to remove airborne oil mist particles generated by machining applications. Oil is directly recycled back to the machines.
• Metal turnings are processed through a centrifuge to remove oil, and then final filtered to five-micron purity, which allows recycling, and reuse in the machines. Clean dry turnings may then be returned to the mill for recycling;
• Vibratory Cleaning System using soap replaced acid cleaning;
• Closed loop de-ionizing water recycle system;
• An on-site distillation unit was installed to recover solvents;
• Made shrouds for oily chips to direct chips into centrifuge pan to minimize spills;
• Reduction in perc, mineral spirits, lacquer thinner, and oil dry documented from 2002 to 2003.

 ABB Automation
Gail Gonnam, Human Resources Manager
4300 Coral Ridge Drive
Coral Springs, FL 33065
954-752-6700
Fax: 954-755-5677
gail.gonnam@us.abb.com

Nature of Business: Manufacturer of Protective Relays

• Recycles paper, cardboard, wooden pallets, copper, brass, bronze and steel
• Recycles 133 tons annually - 73% of their waste stream
• Implementing a closed loop system for rinse water used in the manufacturing process
• Discontinuing the use of chlorinated solvents
• Reducing electrical consumption by 6.2%
• Reduced mineral spirits use from 2,359 gallons per year to 212 gallons per year
• Discontinued use of CFCs
• ISO 14001 Certified