Industrial energy managment

1. Industrial Energy Management
What Energy Management is ??
• A short term plan ??
• Just a technical challenge ??
• Economic limits
• Chances of process disruption

2. Possible Reasons/Benefits of Energy Management
• Direct economic return
• Competitive edge for manufacturing firms
• Restructuring of Energy Supply Sector
• Supply-Demand issues
• Environmental management
• Climate Change
• Energy security & energy management
• A better way to handle price shocks
• Rapid growth in technology

3. Other Factors-WHY are we bothered?
• Legal and company commitments
• Client Requirements
• Pollution and Climate Change
• Non-renewable
• Supply and Demand issues
• Driving costs up

4. Typical savings through energy management:

5. TQM & Energy Management:
- TQM: An Integrated approach to operate a facility.
- Basic Approach of TQM: ??
- Employees involvement in energy management
program through trainings.

6. Future of Energy Management
Extremely Promising
• Cost effective
• Improves environmental quality
• Reduces trade deficit
• Reduces dependence on foreign fuel supplies

7. Energy Management Program-Basic Layout

8. Principles of Energy Management
(Energy Management Handbook-1.4)
1. Control the costs of Energy Function or Service
provided (not the Btu of Energy)
One Btu of electricity Vs one Btu of Coal or Gas ???

10. 2. Control Energy Functions as a Product Cost.
• Need for evaluation of minimum theoretical energy
expense

11. 3. Control and meter only main energy functions.
• Main energy functions???
• A few functions usually account for majority of the cost.
• Submetering and its role in cost improvements

12. 4. Installing controls to achieve results
• Monitoring is essential at each step
• Logging of important fuel usage
• Behavioral observations of employees directly
involved in management program.