Powerful energy complexes are used to serve industrial, agricultural and construction companies. Almost 80% of all energy produced in the country is consumed by businesses. It is the costs of heat and electricity that are becoming one of the main items of expenditure.
They can be reduced by introducing energy saving technologies into the company. They involve the improvement of equipment, as well as the use of high-precision instrumentation. The instrumentation is always chosen taking into account the specificities of the industrial plant. Therefore, for enterprises of the heat, energy and oil industries, devices with a higher degree of protection against external influences are used.
Folk ways to save money: main directions
The main technological activities include:
- Replacement of equipment with energy-saving ones, from lamps to heat exchangers and variable frequency motors.
- Increased productivity in the power generation process: for example, installation of condensing equipment.
- Launch of projects on "ecological" alternative energies (sun, water, wind).
- Monitoring of consumed resources and start-up of control systems.
The research conducted and the statistical data collected state that 90% of energy losses are associated with irrational consumption, but only up to 10% is lost in the transport and transmission process. Therefore, the main directions in energy saving technologies are associated precisely with the optimization of the use of heat and electricity. All these 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 technical measures implemented that effectively reduce the amount of energy consumed, both hot and electric. They are expensive and time-consuming, may require significant investment early on, but deliver good results (and tangible monetary savings). Such events include:
- installation of measurement units, flow meters - allows you to identify implicit losses and reduce costs by 20-30%;
- installation of small boiler rooms for needs, away 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 objects operating without constant load;
- installation of starter relays for lamps and replacement of obsolete lamps with energy-saving ones;
- obtain energy from the processing of secondary raw materials directly in production (thus reducing the cost by almost 4 times);
- thermal insulation of the room;
- installation and launch of solar panels;
- use of organic fuel in boiler rooms.
Also, do not forget about the scheduled inspection and repair of all pipelines, cable networks and other elements of engineering systems, which reduce losses. In addition, gas, water and electricity supply systems must be equipped with modern regulators and highly sensitive metering devices. These are the activities that are actively implemented in modern enterprises.
If we talk about the latest developments in energy saving, these include vortex heat exchangers, heat exchangers in ventilation systems (with an additional coolant or type of radiator), solar panels and solar collectors. The most advanced technologies are too expensive for mass use. The only exceptions are LED lighting and the launch of rotating wind turbines.