Powerful energy complexes are used to serve industrial, agricultural and construction companies. Almost 80% of all energy produced in the country is consumed by enterprises. Heat and electricity costs are becoming one of the main cost items.
They can be reduced by introducing energy-saving technologies in the enterprise. They involve improved equipment as well as the use of high-precision equipment. Measuring instruments are always selected taking into account the specifics of the industrial facility. So, for enterprises in the heat and oil industry are used devices with an increased degree of protection against external influences.
Popular ways to save money: basic guidelines
The main technological activities include:
- Replacement of equipment with energy-saving ones, ranging from lamps to heat exchangers and variable frequency motors.
- Increased productivity in the energy production process: for example, installation of condensing equipment.
- Launch of projects for "ecological" alternative energy (sun, water, wind).
- Monitoring of the spent resources and start of control systems.
Studies and collected statistics claim that 90% of energy losses are related to irrational consumption, but only up to 10% are lost in the process of transportation and transmission. Therefore, the main directions in energy saving technologies are related to the optimization of the use of heat and electricity. All such activities have their own payback period: specialists can easily calculate the economic feasibility of implementing certain processes or purchasing new equipment.
Technical activities
It is the implemented technical measures that effectively reduce the amount of energy consumed, both heat and electricity. They are expensive and time consuming, may require significant investment in the early stages, but provide good results (and tangible cash savings). Such events include:
- installation of measuring units, flow meters: allows you to identify implicit losses and reduce costs by 20-30%;
- installation of small boiler rooms for needs, remote from the central highway, areas: helps to eliminate heat loss during transportation;
- introduction of a frequency control system for electric motors in ventilation, pumping systems, for other sites operating without constant load;
- installation of starting relays for lamps and replacement of obsolete lamps with energy-saving ones;
- obtaining energy by processing secondary raw materials directly in production (thus reducing its costs by almost 4 times);
- thermal insulation of the room;
- installation and commissioning of solar panels;
- use of fossil fuels in boiler rooms.
Also, do not forget about the planned inspection and repair of all pipelines, cable networks and other elements of engineering systems, which reduces losses. In addition, gas, water and power supply systems must be equipped with modern highly sensitive regulators and measuring devices. These are the activities that are actively applied in modern enterprises.
If we talk about the latest energy-saving developments, they include vortex heat generators, heat exchangers in ventilation systems (with an additional type of coolant or radiator), solar panels and solar collectors. Most modern technologies are too expensive for mass use. The only exceptions are LED lighting and the commissioning of rotary wind turbines.