Process Industry Energy Analysis
A Process Industry Energy Analysis is a two-stage application of an Industrial Energy Analysis for the energy-intensive process industry. This work focuses on mapping the energy savings possibilities of production processes, which also details the possibilities for saving energy in the industrial service systems and building technology of the facility being audited.A Process Industry Energy Analysis investigates all primary and secondary energy flows and the possibilities for making energy savings. Because the production process is the central part of an energy analysis, the involvement of the facility’s own production and maintenance organizations in the auditing work is particularly important.
The Process Energy Analysis is divided into two stages:
- Stage 1 (Factory audit), aims to investigate the overall use and distribution of energy and to report technological usage and investments that have been detected that demand clear savings possibilities. Stage 1 also reports on the possible needs for complementary analyses detected in the work.
- Stage 2 comprises the separately started complementary analyses proposed in Stage 1.
Choice of industrial energy auditing model
The Process Energy Analysis model is used when the plants annual energy and water costs are over €3 million. According to the Ministry of Employment and the Economy’s (MEE) general guidelines for energy auditing, the following industrial sector auditing models can be chosen depending on the annual costs (without VAT) of the energy and water in the audited facilities.- 0-15,000 €/a – Building Energy Inspection only;
- 15,000-35,000 €/a – Building Energy Audit, Industrial Energy Audit, Industrial Energy Analysis;
- 35,000-1,400,000 €/a – Industrial Energy Audit or Industrial Energy Analysis;
- 1,400,000-3,000,000 €/a – Industrial Energy Audit only;
- Over 3,000,000 €/a – Industrial Energy Analysis or Process Industry Energy Analysis.
