Solwatt is a comprehensive programme designed by Solvay to implement an energy management system on large energy-intensive industrial sites.
The review phase follows two streams:
The technical stream, aiming at documenting in an action plan a minimum of 10% savings through a series of short payback incremental improvements.
The behavioural and management stream, aiming at fostering a lasting culture of energy management and savings on the site, with a detailed structure of KPIs and KAIs.
Building Energy Legislation - Liz Meddings, ArupGo Green
Liz Meddings, Senior Engineer at Arup describes the history of English energy legislation that has lead to the development of the Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) and explains how Arup are meeting the requirements.
EMA Energy Manager’s Guide to Building ControlsEMEX
The control of energy in non-domestic buildings is generally poor, despite the availability of a range of tried and tested systems incorporating both established and innovative technologies. Although the installation of HVAC zone controls, optimising controllers (for Wet Heating Systems) and lighting controls is encouraged by the building codes, their requirements are basic. As a result, specifications are often limited to the minimum requirements, and superior technologies, such as pre-programmed packaged Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) and Demand Control Ventilation (DCV), are ignored.
Building Energy Legislation - Liz Meddings, ArupGo Green
Liz Meddings, Senior Engineer at Arup describes the history of English energy legislation that has lead to the development of the Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) and explains how Arup are meeting the requirements.
EMA Energy Manager’s Guide to Building ControlsEMEX
The control of energy in non-domestic buildings is generally poor, despite the availability of a range of tried and tested systems incorporating both established and innovative technologies. Although the installation of HVAC zone controls, optimising controllers (for Wet Heating Systems) and lighting controls is encouraged by the building codes, their requirements are basic. As a result, specifications are often limited to the minimum requirements, and superior technologies, such as pre-programmed packaged Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) and Demand Control Ventilation (DCV), are ignored.
Unlocking the Innovation Hidden within Today’s Variable-Speed DrivesEMEX
It is more than 40 years since the technology of variable-speed drives (VSDs) entered the market. Yet despite electric motors accounting for some 65 percent of industrial energy consumption, only 5 percent of installed motors are speed controlled. While not all motors are suitable for speed control, there is still a large proportion that could be. Yet when asked what is the most effective way to reduce energy, UK business responded with “change energy supplier”. Without doubt the most effective way to get real energy savings is to install energy efficient motors and VSDs. In this presentation John Guthrie looks at the impact of VSDs on a diverse range of sectors, offering real examples from hospitals and swimming pools to data centres and car parks.
The case studies explain how the projects were completed, look at power consumption before & after, with the resulting significant energy savings together with excellent ROI’s. In addition, further benefits such as improved monitoring and preventative maintenance are also discussed.
Carbeion helps companies track and reduce Fuel, Energy and Water consumption for each of their facilities and assets, including mobile assets like aircrafts and ground transport fleet, calculate the Carbon Emissions resulting from entire operations and then set and monitor carbon footprint reduction targets. Carbeion will enable companies
• Reduce its carbon footprint
• Lower costs by identifying opportunities to eliminate energy waste
• Become green and grow in a sustainable manner
• Help your suppliers and vendors track and reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint thereby reducing your input costs and indirect carbon emissions
• Transparently report consumption data and carbon footprint to various stakeholders including, management, customers & Environmental Protection Agency, etc.
• Improve the public image of your company by being environmentally friendly
• Enable your CFO to understand & manage future emission liabilities & risks associated with regulatory changes like cap & trade as well as increased cost of energy
New regulations requiring facilities to report emissions to the EPA & EU ETS in 2010, would require the usage of a software like Carbeion that can enable facility level Carbon management & reporting in a multi-facility, multi-asset, multi-country, multi-protocol and multi-fuel operation.
This is a training module developed in the European project SESEC. More information and the full training can be found here: www.sesec-training.eu
The SESEC project is designed to address the energy efficiency needs of the EU clothing industry. The Consortium relies on outstanding competences of the partners, spread over 6 countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Belgium) to provide the missing energy efficiency benchmarks and ready-to-use solutions for the large number of SMEs as well as larger companies. The SESEC project has 4 major objectives:
• To develop, test and offer an Energy Efficiency tool for clothing production, made up of guidelines and web-based applications, suitable for SMEs and large companies
• To transfer the project results to the sector, EURATEX members and interested companies
• To offer training and support to companies to implement energy-saving measures considering cost-effectiveness
• To improve opportunities for energy-efficiency for the whole European clothing industry
This is a training module developed in the European project SESEC. More information and the full training can be found here: www.sesec-training.eu
The SESEC project is designed to address the energy efficiency needs of the EU clothing industry. The Consortium relies on outstanding competences of the partners, spread over 6 countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Belgium) to provide the missing energy efficiency benchmarks and ready-to-use solutions for the large number of SMEs as well as larger companies. The SESEC project has 4 major objectives:
• To develop, test and offer an Energy Efficiency tool for clothing production, made up of guidelines and web-based applications, suitable for SMEs and large companies
• To transfer the project results to the sector, EURATEX members and interested companies
• To offer training and support to companies to implement energy-saving measures considering cost-effectiveness
• To improve opportunities for energy-efficiency for the whole European clothing industry
Developing Energy Metrics at the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)Sonya Dekhtyar
Presented at the Rutgers University 9th Annual Public Performance and Measurement Conference. Discusses the development of energy metrics at the CTA from scratch using the EnergyCAP software for utility billing and tracking. Also covers the creation of idling and fuel metrics.
ITM Power (AIM: ITM), the energy storage and clean fuel company, announces its audited results for the
year ended 30 April 2014. The Company currently has £6.550m of projects under contract.
Summary
Commercial Progress in year
- £5.140m of projects under contract at year end
- Won £2.800m contract to supply three refuelling stations in London
- A total of £2.000m refueller build contracts won with Californian Energy Commission
- Thüga Group’s Power-to-Gas plant officially commissioned and operational on schedule
- Successful injection of hydrogen into the German gas grid
- Participation in the UK, US, Swiss and French Hydrogen Infrastructure Programmes
- Optimisation of standard product platforms and reduction in standard product cost
- Partnership with NRM, Germany for Power-to-Gas projects
-Gas network optimisation contract with AMEC and National Grid
Full release here: http://www.itm-power.com/news-item/results-for-the-year-ended-30-april-2014/
Cloud computing is the hottest topic in IT. It is virtually impossible to read a trade publication or
attend an IT conference and not be overwhelmed by discussions of the advantages and benefits
of cloud computing. In spite of all of the interest, there is still considerable confusion and
disagreement within the IT industry about the definition of cloud computing. The Cloud
Computing Journal, for example, published an article that included 21 definitions of cloud
computing. 1
Though there is confusion about the definition, the goal of cloud computing is quite clear – to
achieve an order of magnitude improvement in the cost-effective, elastic provisioning and
delivery of IT services.
Unlocking the Innovation Hidden within Today’s Variable-Speed DrivesEMEX
It is more than 40 years since the technology of variable-speed drives (VSDs) entered the market. Yet despite electric motors accounting for some 65 percent of industrial energy consumption, only 5 percent of installed motors are speed controlled. While not all motors are suitable for speed control, there is still a large proportion that could be. Yet when asked what is the most effective way to reduce energy, UK business responded with “change energy supplier”. Without doubt the most effective way to get real energy savings is to install energy efficient motors and VSDs. In this presentation John Guthrie looks at the impact of VSDs on a diverse range of sectors, offering real examples from hospitals and swimming pools to data centres and car parks.
The case studies explain how the projects were completed, look at power consumption before & after, with the resulting significant energy savings together with excellent ROI’s. In addition, further benefits such as improved monitoring and preventative maintenance are also discussed.
Carbeion helps companies track and reduce Fuel, Energy and Water consumption for each of their facilities and assets, including mobile assets like aircrafts and ground transport fleet, calculate the Carbon Emissions resulting from entire operations and then set and monitor carbon footprint reduction targets. Carbeion will enable companies
• Reduce its carbon footprint
• Lower costs by identifying opportunities to eliminate energy waste
• Become green and grow in a sustainable manner
• Help your suppliers and vendors track and reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint thereby reducing your input costs and indirect carbon emissions
• Transparently report consumption data and carbon footprint to various stakeholders including, management, customers & Environmental Protection Agency, etc.
• Improve the public image of your company by being environmentally friendly
• Enable your CFO to understand & manage future emission liabilities & risks associated with regulatory changes like cap & trade as well as increased cost of energy
New regulations requiring facilities to report emissions to the EPA & EU ETS in 2010, would require the usage of a software like Carbeion that can enable facility level Carbon management & reporting in a multi-facility, multi-asset, multi-country, multi-protocol and multi-fuel operation.
This is a training module developed in the European project SESEC. More information and the full training can be found here: www.sesec-training.eu
The SESEC project is designed to address the energy efficiency needs of the EU clothing industry. The Consortium relies on outstanding competences of the partners, spread over 6 countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Belgium) to provide the missing energy efficiency benchmarks and ready-to-use solutions for the large number of SMEs as well as larger companies. The SESEC project has 4 major objectives:
• To develop, test and offer an Energy Efficiency tool for clothing production, made up of guidelines and web-based applications, suitable for SMEs and large companies
• To transfer the project results to the sector, EURATEX members and interested companies
• To offer training and support to companies to implement energy-saving measures considering cost-effectiveness
• To improve opportunities for energy-efficiency for the whole European clothing industry
This is a training module developed in the European project SESEC. More information and the full training can be found here: www.sesec-training.eu
The SESEC project is designed to address the energy efficiency needs of the EU clothing industry. The Consortium relies on outstanding competences of the partners, spread over 6 countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Belgium) to provide the missing energy efficiency benchmarks and ready-to-use solutions for the large number of SMEs as well as larger companies. The SESEC project has 4 major objectives:
• To develop, test and offer an Energy Efficiency tool for clothing production, made up of guidelines and web-based applications, suitable for SMEs and large companies
• To transfer the project results to the sector, EURATEX members and interested companies
• To offer training and support to companies to implement energy-saving measures considering cost-effectiveness
• To improve opportunities for energy-efficiency for the whole European clothing industry
Developing Energy Metrics at the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)Sonya Dekhtyar
Presented at the Rutgers University 9th Annual Public Performance and Measurement Conference. Discusses the development of energy metrics at the CTA from scratch using the EnergyCAP software for utility billing and tracking. Also covers the creation of idling and fuel metrics.
ITM Power (AIM: ITM), the energy storage and clean fuel company, announces its audited results for the
year ended 30 April 2014. The Company currently has £6.550m of projects under contract.
Summary
Commercial Progress in year
- £5.140m of projects under contract at year end
- Won £2.800m contract to supply three refuelling stations in London
- A total of £2.000m refueller build contracts won with Californian Energy Commission
- Thüga Group’s Power-to-Gas plant officially commissioned and operational on schedule
- Successful injection of hydrogen into the German gas grid
- Participation in the UK, US, Swiss and French Hydrogen Infrastructure Programmes
- Optimisation of standard product platforms and reduction in standard product cost
- Partnership with NRM, Germany for Power-to-Gas projects
-Gas network optimisation contract with AMEC and National Grid
Full release here: http://www.itm-power.com/news-item/results-for-the-year-ended-30-april-2014/
Cloud computing is the hottest topic in IT. It is virtually impossible to read a trade publication or
attend an IT conference and not be overwhelmed by discussions of the advantages and benefits
of cloud computing. In spite of all of the interest, there is still considerable confusion and
disagreement within the IT industry about the definition of cloud computing. The Cloud
Computing Journal, for example, published an article that included 21 definitions of cloud
computing. 1
Though there is confusion about the definition, the goal of cloud computing is quite clear – to
achieve an order of magnitude improvement in the cost-effective, elastic provisioning and
delivery of IT services.
El Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla (SPUS) organiza el 'El día del libro de tu Centro' y visita el día 19 de marzo la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura con el objetivo de acercar la producción bibliográfica de la Universidad de Sevilla al profesorado, alumnado y PAS de este centro.
Describe Ricardo Semler’s leadership style.
What do you think might be the advantages and drawbacks of his style?
What challenges might a radically hands–off leader face?
How could these challenges be addressed
How could future leaders be identified in Semco?
Would leadership training be important to this organization? Discuss.
What could other business learn from Ricardo Semler’s approach to business?
Cuaderno de actividades experimentales para la asignatura de Ciencias II énfasis en Física, para segundo grado de secundaria de Educación Básica.
Las actividades presentadas corresponden al primer bloque
This presentation highlights the types of home buyer assistance programs that are underutilized, yet which are made available to qualified home buyers. Many of those who qualify are not even aware of the fact that they would qualify for such assistance. The type of assistance that is usually made available is far-ranging, from down payment assistance to interest rate breaks to closing cost reduction.
The presentation begins with a layout of housing affordability pressures throughout both Georgia and the United States, with an additional emphasis on the effects that transportation costs have on metropolitan households. This creates a need for “workforce housing” which is interpreted differently from “affordable housing”. The presentation concludes with an illustration of the types of home buyer assistance opportunities that are made available through area MLS with the help of a program developed by Workforce Resource, an Atlanta-based company committed to making such opportunities available to qualified home buyers.
The presentation was made at a consumer conference in Chattanooga in early 2010. The presenters were Rob Chrane, Principal of Workforce Resource, LLC, and Dr. Andy Carswell, Associate Professor at the University Georgia’s Department of Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics.
A pro-bono document on behalf of a man who is single-handedly running recycling collections with his old van in Antigua for grassroots initiative Zero Waste Antigua and Rubber Duck recycling: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rubber-Duck-Recycling
The SEAI Public Sector Programme supports the Irish public sector achieve a national energy efficiency target of 33% by 2020. A 2030 target is being developed. There are 350 public bodies, from small offices, 3rd level, hospitals, charities, local authorities, transport, up to large semi state companies. It also includes 3800 schools. SEAI offers a number of supports, from energy management, to training, networking, innovative capital grants for project development and implementation, and more recently deeper coordination supports at technology and sectoral levels to develop a national project pipeline. Public bodies must report to SEAI annually on their energy performance. They do this on an online system called Monitoring and Reporting (M&R). Over 95% of public bodies reported last year and 62% of schools. This data forms the basis of targets on government departments and their aegis public bodies. The data is being used to develop the project pipeline, identify the gap to target in organisations and planning the projects to close the gap. Collectively the programme supports the implementation of the National Public Sector Energy Efficiency Strategy.
The SEAI Public Sector Programme supports the Irish public sector achieve a national energy efficiency target of 33% by 2020. A 2030 target is being developed. There are 350 public bodies, from small offices, 3rd level, hospitals, charities, local authorities, transport, up to large semi state companies. It also includes 3800 schools. SEAI offers a number of supports, from energy management, to training, networking, innovative capital grants for project development and implementation, and more recently deeper coordination supports at technology and sectoral levels to develop a national project pipeline. Public bodies must report to SEAI annually on their energy performance. They do this on an online system called Monitoring and Reporting (M&R). Over 95% of public bodies reported last year and 62% of schools. This data forms the basis of targets on government departments and their aegis public bodies. The data is being used to develop the project pipeline, identify the gap to target in organisations and planning the projects to close the gap. Collectively the programme supports the implementation of the National Public Sector Energy Efficiency Strategy.
Time to step up performance-based energy efficiency measurement and verificat...Leonardo ENERGY
How can you know for sure the energy you’ve saved through your building renovation? The answer is that you can’t! But, by measuring energy consumption and taking account of other factors, such as the weather and building occupancy, you can make a much better estimate than by simply relying on installers’ claims of effectiveness. This is well understood in industry, where contracts for energy efficiency projects are routinely set up to reward energy service companies for the savings made, based on measurement and verification protocols such as IPMVP. This shifts much of the technical risk of underperformance onto the energy service contractor, aligning incentives and driving better performance. Policy makers in the US have begun to apply these principles to utility-delivered energy efficiency programmes in the buildings sector as part of efforts to drive up performance and provide better value for money for bill payers. The EU now has the opportunity to follow suit.
Paul Hamilton, Schneider Electric: Lean and Clean: Equipping Modern Manufactu...guest3e1229f
On Friday, March 19, Alliance staff and industry experts discussed energy efficiency's role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector.
Paul Hamilton, Schneider Electric: Lean and Clean: Equipping Modern Manufactu...Alliance To Save Energy
On Friday, March 19, Alliance staff and industry experts discussed energy efficiency's role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector. http://ase.org/content/article/detail/6517
Energy efficiency implementation program for state level in MalaysiaZAINI ABDUL WAHAB
Proposed program by MAESCO at a state level in Malaysia for faster results to reduce energy costs through strategic partnership between government and private sectors and facilities owners and ESCOs.
Practical approach with the state government with some interventions and supports from agencies from the federal government.
Financing energy storage - Masterclass By MACQUARIEDavide Bonomi
This presentation was presented at the masterclass session during 11th Energy Storage World Forum in 2018, Berlin.
Financing energy storage - Masterclass by Macqurie focuses on energy markets changes and how they affect corporations:
- Adoption of battery storage
- Typical revenue streams
- Frequency response
- DUoS & TRIADs
- Overlooking UK Capacity Market
If you’d like to get a deep industry insights and learn in person from energy storage professionals, join our next masterclass at https://energystorageforum.com/register
Research Associate Dr Callum Rae discusses
the challenges presented by the growth in the
Energy Centre market, and outlines our alternative
approach to Energy Centre design, which has
successfully been applied to the AECC Energy
Centre project.
As the highly prestigious London Wall Place
project approaches completion of the shell
and core, Director, James O’Byrne reviews the
project and the application of BIM, and discusses
the various benefits on the overall design and
coordination process.
Diesel fuel is now a Category 3 flammable liquid.
Technical Board Director Wyn Turnbull reports
on the impact to diesel storage and use, as the
result of the recent Classification, Labelling and
Packaging of Chemical (CLP) Regulations 2015
which have replaced the now revoked CHIP
Regulations.
Associate Director Paul Scriven provides a brief
overview of the WELL Building Standard and
discusses why and how its popularity is growing.
Finally, Group Director Robert Thorogood discusses
how far standardisation of controls and automation
have developed using the IEC 61850 integration
standard, and what the benefits may bring to the
control of power distribution.
Paul Flatt, Group Chairman and CEO,
Hurley Palmer Flatt.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
2. Energy savings is key for sustainability
2
Source: EEA
Energy efficiency index
of European industry
Source: CEFIC
Greenhouse gas emissions
index of European chemicals
Confidential
3. Executive summary
• Solwatt is a comprehensive programme designed by Solvay to implement an energy
management system on large energy-intensive industrial sites.
• Solwatt complies with the EN16247-1&3 norm and most of the ISO50001:2011 norm.
• The review phase follows two streams:
- The technical stream, aiming at documenting in an action plan a minimum of 10% savings
through a series of short payback incremental improvements.
- The behavioural and management stream, aiming at fostering a lasting culture of energy
management and savings on the site, with a detailed structure of KPIs and KAIs.
• The implementation phase is run as follows:
- KPIs and KAIs are put in place by the site.
- Improvements requiring no capex (« quick wins ») are put in place by the site.
- Improvements requiring capex (« investments ») are put in place jointly with Solvay, who
provides the necessary capital through an operating lease. Savings are then shared between
the site and Solvay over a period of five years for each asset.
• The total programme takes five to eight years to be completed, and during that time
savings are typically shared 70% for the site and 30% for Solvay.
Confidentiel
3
5. Confidential
5
sustainable chemistry
SOLVAY: Building a new
model of
9,940million net sales
29,400employees
117sites
56countries
15Major R&I
centers 2013 figures
25%
17%
Automotive
& aeronautics
11%
Energy
& environment
12%
Agro, feed
& food
10%
Building
&construction
6%
Electrical
& electronics
19%
Industrial
applications
Consumer goods
& healthcare
6. Solvay Energy Services: Best-in-class integrated
energy management
A breakthrough energy efficiency approach
Innovating solutions to finance energy efficiency projects
Transforming access to energy markets
Optimizing & developing energy production
Leverage unmatched track record in CO2 reduction
Developing renewable energies
Confidential
6
€ 800M
PURCHASE OF
ENERGY FOR THE
GROUP
1000MWe
OF COGENERATION
CAPACITY
14 M
CER/ERU
PRODUCTION
CAPACITY / YEAR
300
EMPLOYEES
13 COUNTRIES
7. Transforming access to energy markets
• Direct access to energy
markets
• Own dispatching unit
• Trading
• Demand management
team
• Dispatches 20% of French
gas industrial market
7
Confidential
8. Optimizing and developing energy
production on sites
• Solvay Energy Services manages about 1400 MW of
electricity production assets in Europe. We maximise the
flexibility and reactivity of electricity consumption and
production sites.
• 32 turbines in 6 countries : Argentina, Belgium, France,
Germany, Italy, Spain
• Design, construction,
maintenance and
operation of energy assets
• Internalizing outsource
assets
• Building new assets when
market/subsidies
opportunities
• Managing assets in a pool
to optimize their value
Enhancing natural hedge
8
Confidential
9. Innovating solutions to finance energy
efficiency projects
• Financing vehicle
developed with
and
• Small size projects (€ 5 to
50 m),
with payback period over 3
years
• Allowing quick
deployment
• Accelerating the energy
transition
First project at Solvay’s Rare Earth plant in La Rochelle (France)
(November 2013)
9
Confidential
10. Solwatt key figures*
10
* at end 2014
70 industrial sites
reviewed
2 000 validated short and
medium term actions of which
40% already implemented
9 500 days spent
on industrial sites
3 200 days of
training
25 dedicated engineers, covering
all geographical areas
130 M€ of identified yearly
gains, of which 45 M€ (1/3)
without capex
The sum of all identified
Solwatt actions amounts
to a yearly reduction of
600 000 tonnes of CO2
The Solwatt team has
accumulated 210 years
of industrial experience
Confidential
12. 1
2
2 main
thrusts
Greenhouse gas emissions
Levers: energy efficiency, industrial
processes, clean technologies,
more renewables in energy
production and supply.
Sustainable Portfolio Management
(SPM), at the heart of strategy
Tool for analyzing the product portfolio
and its alignment with the requirements
and opportunities of sustainable
development.
-40%
Reduction of
Group carbon
emissions
intensity by
2025
88%
of the portfolio
analysed in 2015
Group presentation 2016
25/02/2016
Doing business, being responsible
13. To reduce your current fuel bill…
at constant kms driven
Technological gaps vs.
incremental improvements
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You can buy a new, fuel-
efficient car
Reduce gas unit costs
Remodel your car
(change tires, improve
engine…)
Learn how to drive it better
With you current car, you can :
For industrial operations
Technological breakthroughs
• Membrane electrolysis
• Low temperature heat recovery
( ex. ANTARES project of PI) …
Sourcing
Equipment
Operations
Incremental improvements on:
• Switch fuel
• Renegotiate contract
• Switch supplier
• …
• Replace inefficient pieces of
equipment (motors, pumps…)
• Recover energy via heat
integration …
• Review operational parameters
• Tighten operations management
• Change mindsets
• …
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14. A four-step process
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2 to 4 weeks 2 to 4 weeks0 to 10 weeks
Steerco 1 Steerco 2Kick off
1 to 2 months
Screening of the
current situation
Idea
Generation
Off phase Idea validation Action plan Follow-up
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4
Preparation
Screening of the
current situation
Mindset &
Behaviors
Off phase
Definition of
KPIs/KAIs
EMS set up Follow-up
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4
Behaviour and Management Stream
Technical Stream
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Key activities:
Final products:
• Diagnostic: identify losses and improvement areas
• Idea generation and prioritization: run brainstorming sessions
• Idea evaluation: create individual measure cards
• Jointly build the new KPIs structure related to energy and propose their integration in the existing structure
• Master plan: define options to meet potential challenges of the current energy system of the plant
• Short term implementation actions plan (technical + energy management) with associated financial consequences
• KPIs-KAIs structures
15. Success relies on the involvement of the site
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1
2
Full support from site Management up to the highest level
3
4
Involvement of the BU (Industrial, Technical & Process Managers,…) for technical and
political support (including the allocation of CAPEX for the implementation of Solwatt action
plan)
Committed site teams
• Availability of site engineers to Solwatt during the project phase
• WCM / BPMI involved in the project for EnMS workstream
• Participation of operators and shift leaders (during workshops, to answer the
questionnaire, to work on indicators and implement KAIs and quick wins)
Good communication site-wide, before, during and after the project
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16. Objective: reduce energy bill by 10% or more
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1
Create transparency
by delivering an
objective diagnosis of
the situation to identify
energy losses to
focus on
2
Foster creativity of
stakeholders at all levels
of the plant and beyond
by involving them all in
brainstorming sessions
to generate many ideas
to save energy
3
Follow a structured
progressive evaluation
process to filter out ideas
based on feasibility and
payback and build an action
plan for the plant
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17. From idea to asset
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Ideas are generated through
brainstorming sessions. The most
promising are kept as opportunities
Opportunities are screened through
an opportunity matrix and those
retained are validated.
After detailed study, opportunities
become actions without capex or
actions with capex. Actions are
validated and sequenced in an
action plan.
Required capex is provided by
Solvay. Once carried out, an
investment becomes an asset.
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18. 1/3 of savings require no capex
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Split of Savings according to payback
M€/y (%)
(34%)
(30%)
no CAPEX
(36%)
PB <3y
PB <1y
Cumulated CAPEX
Cumulatedsavings
1/3
1/3
1/3
Of savings
with PB >1y
and <3y
Of savings
with PB<1y
Of savings
with
immediate
PB
Illustration: Typical cumulated savings
vs. cumulated CAPEX curve
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19. A transformation project
towards sustainable results
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Rethinking energy
indicators (KPIs)
and reporting tools
and processes
The project of the
site, for the site
and by the site
An action plan aiming at
creating a culture of energy
efficiency in the plant
The project relies on 3
aspects to transform the
way the plant’s
employees see,
consume, manage
energy.
This ensures the
continuous efforts of
the plant to implement
actions and strive for
energy efficiency in their
daily job
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20. A KPI/KAI structure ensures sustainability of
excellence in energy management
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Distance to
excellence
Distance to
excellence
Site
manager
Unit
manager
(JS)
Production
Manager
(JF)
Shift
leader
Operator
Monthly Weekly Daily Shift Continuous
1
2
KAI tracking3
KAI tracking4
KAI5
Site
manager
cockpit
T
Time
Min.
Target
Max.
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Target
good
Target
bad
•3•2•1•3•2•1•3•2•1
Weeks
Target
•9•8•7•6•5•4•3•2•1
Target
bad
•3•2•1
Target
good
•3•2•1•3•2•1•3•2•1•3•2•1•3•2•1•3•2•1
21. KAIs are put in the hands of operators
KAIfor O2 excess and boiler
utilisation rate
function of soda ash load
Illustration: KAI implementation during SOLWATT Torrelavega
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23. If you lease a car…
instead of buying it
Energy Performance Contracts
for faster savings
You can get a better car
faster !
A fixed fee for having the car
available
A variable fee depending on
miles driven
Fuel costs will have no
impact on leasing costs
You will pay :
For industrial operations
Actions requiring capex can be implemented
faster, with immediate savings.
Typical 5-year profit sharing scheme is 70% for
the plant and 30%for Solvay.
Fixed fees
Profit
sharing
Maintenan-
ce and
operations
Costs are split between:
• Paid over 5 years
• Depends on total capex
• Asset is amortized and transferred
after 5 years.
• Paid over 5 years
• Depends on calculated
savings.
• Operation and maintenance is
delegated to plant
• Fee is paid to plant for the service
• Exceptional repair is cost of owner.
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24. Solution
▪ Preheat the condensate at the inlet of CC
with the heat of the liquid at the outlet of CC
(96°C).
▪ Installation of a new heat exchanger.
Impact
Investment: 100 k€ (+200 k€ for DT)
Cost of steam: €15,00/tonne
Steam saving: 2,74 tonne/hour
Yearly savings: 360 k€
Payback: 0,8 year
Current state
▪ Liquid at the outlet of CC is cooled down
with cooling water from 96°C to 35°C.
▪ Condensate at the inlet of CC is warmed up
in the CC from 60°C to 96°C. To ensure a
correct energy
balance a 2-step
flash tank is
required
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Heat exchanger example
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25. Electrical motors example
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Solution
▪ Replace 20 motors
▪ Install 5 new motors with VSD
▪ Install 5 VSDs on existing motors
▪ Replace 4 pumps with smaller models
Impact
Investment: 560 k€
Cost of electricity: P = €58,00/MWh
Savings: (Er - Em) x Tm x P
Er is previous hourly consumption
Em is new hourly consumption
Tm is hours per year
Yearly savings: 919 k€
Payback: 0,6 year
Current state
▪ Overall number of motors > 200 - including
Pumps, fans, mill and conveyor belt drives
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26. The profit sharing principle in an energy
performance contract
• Capex is provided by Solvay.
• Implementation is jointly
managed by the site and
Solvay.
• Profit-sharing is based on
calculated savings and paid
quarterly.
• Asset operation and
maintenance is delegated to
the site against a fee.
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28. Solwatt won the first price in the category “managerial innovation”
at the Global Solvay Innovation Awards last Oct 18 2013
SOLVAY ENERGY SERVICES
25 rue de Clichy – 75009 Paris – France
www.solvay.com
Pascal Guerin
Business Development Director
Tel + 33 426 190 125
Mob +33 642 076 512
pascal.guerin@solvay.com
Laurent Daoud
Senior Expert
Technology & Energy Efficiency
Tel + 33 1 5356 6188
Mob + 33 6 3019 5796
laurent.daoud@solvay.com
Your contacts
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