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Step by Step Actions to be Taken in Energy Management

From the beginning point of the business world up to now, always same essence exists behind entire the success stories which were bear in mind: If a trouble would have appeared in someplace, absolutely an opportunity also exists there.  Solutions created remedial to the existed problems would become an important and durable worth in time. According to GreenBusiness, the tenet at a premium value, which is being gained nowadays, is developed and developing new techniques for energy saving.

There are huge amount of routine costs which have been leaned to be neglected because of becoming a pattern in course of time. Those can be summarized as expenditures come on account of supplying some technologies which are to provide the sustainability of some certain standards in daily life such as electricity, water and heating. In more general terms, the definition can be made as energy consumption. For years, which its own positive effects such as leveraging factor to the efficiency and economical sustainability are ignored, the subject is started to be considered recently. It is necessary to develop saving studies shifting the consumption to optimum levels in order to sustain economical cycle and future of the world. By improving the creative engineering approaches, significant savings can be acquired in those expenditure items.

On effective management of internal operations, performing a detailed analysis for those expenditures and improving optimization methods is so necessary. GreenBusiness has developed the main roadmap of those studies so as to be applied in entire corporations. That roadmap is consisted of 7 steps which includes energy saving methodologies and techniques. In order to gain high efficiency from all those studies, pilot studies must be carried out in some pre-specified working areas as preparatory work. Thus, probable benefits that would be gained from further studies could be predicted and optimum working orders would be shaped systematically. Below, actions to be taken are explained with the optimum order.

 

Necessary Work Packages to be Substantiated Within the Energy Management Project

 

1. Energy and Exergy Requirment Analysis

The amount of energy consumption rates of present within the company is necessary to be analyzed as the main study. All consumption points of entire types should be determined.

1. Determing the energy consumption points in all working areas inside the company and especially on the production lines must be figured on an embedded analytical zone. 
2. Amount of consumption rates should be founded adherence to seasonal factors and results had better be visualized graphically.
3. Energy consumption levels on business process flows and consumption points are necessary to be confirmed.
4. Reference energy consumption requirements of business process flows must be determined by ideal efficicncy comparisons.
5. Necessary formulation entegrations had better be developed so as to express energy and exergy efficiency rates.
6. Energy and exergy efficiencies of business processes must be calculated for the current state.

2. Work Development Studies

Total efficiency increase and saving potentials must be revealed for the working areas. Optimization stduies derive to added value should be modeled, moreover method approaches for alternative solutions had better be improved.

1. Potential alternative energy resource usage rates on the scope must be analyzed in detailed, necessary project modelings are needed to be drawn in order to benefir those potentials.
2. Process performance evaluation system had better be built up adapted from the relation between consumed unit energy per unit output.
3. Measuring the consumed energy and produced service/good and interpretation of those reults in aspect of energy efficiency must be performed, moreover sample reportings are necessary to constitute.
4. Under the light of current measurements requirements and targets of necessary optimization models would be determined.
5. Based on those gaugings, added value analysis of optimization studies to be performed should be done.

3. Saving Management Solutions Improvement

According to completed business development investigations carried out all working points, necessary solution methods and entegration steps should be designated. In consideraition with potential saving opportunities and requirements detected on analysis optimization engineering must be commited.

1. Necessary investment plans for alternative energy enabling projects must be drawn.
2. Determination of how much amount of benefit can be gained at which point; decision whether it is wothwhile to apply or not must be stated  for each project whose cost-benefit analysis was completed.
3. By carrying out the energy and exergy efficiency measurments, process modelings and reengineering plannings would be substantiated.
4. In accordance with latter step, energy optimization modelings would be created, after sample implementations last versions must be modified due to the necessary revisions.
5. System reengineering plannings nust be adpoted.
6. Practical scientific methods that would provide energy saving and easy to apply must be adopted.

 

4. Feasibility Analysis

Beside the revisions would be made on the system, investments provide saving also must be considered within the scope of the project.  Rationality levels of system intergrations which are to be adopted production areas, advantages and requiremnets should be analyzed with details.

1. Carrying out the feasibility studies of energy saving investments, quantitative added values and probable investment costs must be determined.
2. Simulation modeling studies are necessary to be done for those investments according to alternative cases determined through calculations such as profitability indexes and NPV.
3. According to the simulation results investments, which are worthwhile to execute, are needed to be selected.
4. Payback periods, profitability ratios, long term added values and positive effects to energy performance indicators of those investments, which are selected, must be estimated.
5. It must be determined that in which order and how much scale of those investments would be actualized.

 

5. Contrast Management

It would be a considerably significant step to analyze how effective results are started to be gained and estimate the effectiveness rates in long-term  of entire the revisions and reengineering models. With the comparison of energy consumption rates before and after the change, quantitative analysis is necessary to be done.

1. Current state energy consumption rates and necessary parameter measurements must be completed.
2. Under the light of the measurements, quantitative values of energy performance indicators must be computed.
3. Efficiency increase rates contingent on renewals and added values should be assessed.
4. Acquirements due to results of the project and profits to the company in means of productivity and fiscal should be analyzed.

 

6. Energy Systems Sustainability Management

In order to achieve the company capture the best result in aspect of economy and technology, optimization of cutting-edge technologies must be provided. Most significantly, systems such as combined heat and power, heat pumps, thermal storage and absorption chillers must be hybridized in optimum ratio and  payback periods are necessary to be calculated.

1. According to current state consumption types and amounts technological renovation requirements must be stated.
2. Process flow management of technical improvements should be modeled through detailed analysis.
3. Added value and financial analysis of renovations must be completed in aspect of energy performance indicators.
4. Base on indicators, optimization of system hybridizations must be carried out.

 

7. Final Report

Final reporting must be written consists of benefits gained and roadmap followed. Ongoing studies and current/future added values of those studies must be stated.

1. Gained and probable to be gained benefits through entire the revisions and investments must be analyzed.
2. Consumed energy and totally produced goods/services along that consumption would be compared again according to renewed state. The difference gathered as benefit had better be evaluated.
3. Benefits in means of fiscal and corporate must be acquainted.
4. Energy management policy must be defined through the results.
5. Content of the know-how to be adapted further should be ascertained and explained with details for the continuous improvement.
6. Entire the contents and planning must be reported broadly.