Managing your energy consumption could be very challenging predominantly during present electricity tariff and escalation of oil & gas prices. With the increasing of other production cost such as raw material and labour, reducing the energy cost may the only way for the company to remain competitive and stay in the business. This blog discusses all related issues in managing your energy consumption efficiently and in a systematic way.

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Friday, March 4, 2011

Potential Energy Saving Measures in Plastic Manufacturing Plant

the audit was carried out in an integrated plastic resin manufacturing plant. It took about 2-3 weeks to complete the audit. The energy consumed in this plant is thermal (gas)for steam generation) and electricity. . A summary of the energy and cost savings of all the investigated measures is shown in Table 0.3‑1. As shown in the table, total savings in the range of about RM 1,956 thousand or 16.4 percent from current energy cost.

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Table 1: Summary of energy and cost saving measures

The potential reduction of CO2 emissions of all the energy savings measures together is shown in Table 2.

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Table 2: Potential reduction of CO2 emissions

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