Cutting cost and carbon for chemicals manufacturing
Introduction
One of our chemicals manufacturing clients is behind sustainable, high-performance ingredients and technologies in some of the world’s most successful brands. Providing speciality chemicals for various industries, it is committed to being the most sustainable supplier of innovative ingredients, becoming climate, land and people positive by 2030.
Challenge
On its sustainability journey, our client is aiming to reduce its energy usage to cut both its carbon footprint and the cost of production. To support an informed decision-making process that will reduce energy usage, the company must first know how and where it is using energy.
Solution
Splitting this business-critical project into key stages, starting with the boiler house, we supplied and commissioned a full system including ABB SwirlMaster steam metering, Dresser gas metering with PLUM volume corrector, an interface panel which included the IS barriers for the gas meters and gateway for the cloud system.
Outcome
This comprehensive solution ensures that this chemicals manufacturer has full sight of its utility usage across gas, electricity, steam and water supplies. Our bespoke customer dashboard visualises the full monitoring process using live data to produce interactive graphs which enable the user to isolate specific flow meters and inspect the flow trends in detail. There is also a totaliser showing consumption throughout selected time periods which can be easily interrogated, allowing for on-going data monitoring and analysis.
Testimonial
The client said: “The new steam and gas meters have given us much more confidence in our readings. We are now achieving boiler efficiencies under 100%!
We are hoping to use this to develop a business case for boiler efficiency improvement projects, where we will be able to use the database to validate any savings. We are also working on the next stage of adding more utility meters onto the dashboard to look for inefficiencies and potential savings. This will be a huge help in freeing up valuable maintenance resource as it will remove the need for manual weekly reads.”