Ultrasound World V (2009)

Improving Energy Efficiency in a capital constrained environment Workshop

Workshop Outline:   

1.  What Drives Energy Efficiency
     a.  Plant Reliability
     b.  Process Quality and Yield
     c.  Process Efficiency?

2.  Energy Reduction Case Histories
     a.  5 to 10 % savings from low hanging fruit
              compressed air
              other utilities
              plant reliability
     b.  How to get to 15 to 20 %
     c.  Identifying opportunities in your plant

3.  Low Hanging Fruit – Specific Examples
     a.  Moving form leak detection to leak management
     b.  How much can compressed air really cost?
     c.  How much are your leaking steam traps really costing? 
     d.  Other opportunities

4.  System Wide Analysis
     a.  What is a system audit  
     b.  Energy Audit case studies
              compressed air
              process heat integration
              plant optimisation
     c.  Identifying opportunities in your plant

5.  Operating in a Capital Constrained Environment
     a.  Low Cost Capital Projects
     b.  Making the most of extra market downtime
     c.  Extracting more value from your ultrasonic equipment 

6.  How to justify projects