{"id":7929,"date":"2023-08-17T09:05:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lhm-instrumentation.eu\/?p=7929"},"modified":"2023-11-21T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:04:10","slug":"detecting-industrial-energy-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lhm-instrumentation.eu\/en\/kenniscentrum\/energie-power\/industriele-energieverspilling-opsporen\/","title":{"rendered":"Detecting industrial energy waste"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"IndustrialDetecting industrial energy waste is a two-part story. On the one hand, there is intention and, on the other, there is strategy. Industrial facilities in the United States continue to express interest in energy management. This is the intention: reduce overall energy use or maintain this use at a certain level, but in the process produce more per kW consumed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Then there is strategy. And this is where the shoe can sometimes wriggle.<\/h4>\n

In a manufacturing environment, a strategy can only work if there is enough knowledge and experience to support the vision, but sufficient ROI must also be realised to ensure that everything is worthwhile. But as for Industrial Energy Wastage, there is no research institute anywhere where an industrial plant manager can go to determine what is \u201creasonable\u201d energy consumption in a production facility. So how can one then assess what part of the current energy consumption is reasonable and what part is wasteful, or what part of that wasteful part provides enough efficiency to justify intervention?<\/p>\n

The return we are talking about here includes the cost per kWh charged by the power company. The rates of these vary, depending on the time of day and time of year. Reducing these costs also leads to immediate cost savings. The investment consists of the material and labour required to change the energy consumption. The return is the period of time that must pass before the lower energy bill leads to the creation of returns. What remains after the costs have been paid is then the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

If we then look again at the strategy, how can we estimate how much return these interventions are going to generate if there is no industry standard for reasonable energy consumption against which to measure it?<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Profiling Industrial Energy Waste<\/h4>\n

Energy consumption<\/a> in the industry varies and this is due to several factors:<\/p>\n