Energy savings allow companies to increase their competitiveness and create new room for manoeuvre. The potential for savings is often poorly exploited, while the gains to be made are rapid and significant.
Auditing, measuring and analysing the consumption of utilities (steam, fuel, electricity, cooling and air) is an essential step in order to optimise costs.
The industrial sector is the world's largest consumer of energy resources. It accounts for 37% of global final energy consumption. This consumption is expected to increase by 1.2% annually by 2025 at a cost of 700 billions of dollars.
Every company manager seeks to optimize his or her processes in order to minimize financial losses.
What are the main energy-consuming items in the industrial sector?
Inadequate use of utilities leads to overconsumption, reduced equipment availability and production capacity, increased excess heat, breakdowns and corrective maintenance.
The same is true of networks: poorly managed networks lead to higher costs, deficient energy supplies, unsuitable power distribution and, consequently, lower energy yields.
This means that energy is neither valorized nor optimally redirected within the company.
The result is a reduction in the lifespan of production equipment, longer working hours, and lower product quality and efficiency.
A large proportion of energy losses in industry concerns utilities (steam, fuel, electricity, electricity, refrigeration and air): inaccurate or non-existent measurement of the process, failure to detect anomalies, insufficient or non-existent recovery, etc.
The reduction of utility costs requires the ability to measure, visualize and monitor consumption.
In concrete terms, a precise analysis of consumption combined with relevant actions enable utilities to be optimized as follows:
The measurement of saturated or superheated steam, the pressure and/or temperature-corrected flow rate is essential in industrial sectors such as the food processing, chemistry-petrochemistry andenergy.
It allows :
In the majority of industrial companies, gas and fuel oil are used to produce heat in processes. Hydrocarbons are used as raw materials, particularly in the chemical-petrochemical industry.
Proper fuel measurement allows :
Whatever your sector of activity, electricity is probably the most essential utility for the operation of your production equipment.
Electricity metering and optimization can help you :
Although the food industry is the main consumer of energy for cold chain conservation, other sectors such as pharmaceuticals and chemicals also use it (process cooling systems, data centres, public buildings, etc.).
Accurate measurement of cold consumption allows:
11% of industrial electricity production is dedicated to the manufacture of compressed air. For these industries, mastering the management of air networks is essential.
Collecting, analyzing and exploiting precise data on consumption, selecting and implementing compressed air meters and relevant performance indicators can generate between 15 and 30% savings in :
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