Huge energy complexes are used to serve industrial, agricultural and construction businesses. Almost 80% of all energy produced in the country is consumed by businesses. The cost of heat and electricity is becoming one of the main expenditure items.
These can be reduced by introducing energy-saving technologies in the business. This includes repairing equipment as well as using high-precision instruments. The instruments are always selected taking into account the specifics of the industrial facility. So they give companies in the heat, electricity and oil industries more protection against external influences.
Popular methods of saving: main directions
The main technological activities are:
- Replacement of equipment with energy-saving devices, from lamps to heat exchangers and variable frequency motors
- Increased productivity in the power generation process: for example, the installation of condensing equipment.
- Launch of "ecological" alternative energy projects (solar, water, wind).
- Monitoring of consumed resources and setting up control systems.
The research carried out and the statistics collected claim that 90% of energy loss is precisely due to irrational consumption, but only up to 10% is lost during transport and transmission. Therefore, the main directions of energy-saving technologies are precisely related to the optimization of heat and electricity consumption. Each such activity has its own payback period: professionals can easily calculate the economic feasibility of implementing certain processes or purchasing new equipment.
Technical activity
The technical measures implemented effectively reduce the amount of energy consumed, both hot and electric. They are costly and time consuming, may require significant investment in the initial phase, but provide good results (and tangible monetary savings). Such events include:
- installation of measuring units, flow meters: allows identification of implicit losses and reduction of costs by 20-30%;
- installation of small boiler houses for needs, away from the central highway, areas: helps to eliminate heat loss during transport;
- introduction of a frequency control system for electric motors in ventilation and pumping systems for other objects operating without constant load;
- installation of starting relays for lamps and replacement of obsolete lamps with energy-saving lamps;
- obtaining energy through direct processing of secondary raw materials in production (thus reducing its cost by almost four times);
- thermal insulation of the room;
- installation and introduction of solar panels;
- use of fossil fuels in boiler houses.
Also, don’t forget to have scheduled inspections and repairs on all piping, cabling, and other components in your engineering systems, which reduces losses. In addition, gas, water and electricity supply systems must be equipped with modern, highly sensitive regulators and measuring devices. These activities are actively implemented in modern businesses.
If we talk about the latest energy saving developments, these include vortex type heat generators, heat exchangers for ventilation systems (with additional coolant or radiator), solar panels and solar collectors. Most advanced technologies are too expensive for mass use. The only exceptions are LED lighting and the introduction of rotating wind turbines.