Process Manufacturing

Refining, Upstream/Production, Chemicals,

Petrochemicals, Food Processing, Pulp & Paper

Process manufacturing facilities have energy and utilities objectives of maximizing the value of energy in the plant, reducing the cost of energy per unit manufactured, efficiently operating energy consuming process equipment, recovering waste heat as useful energy, selecting the optimum mix of process equipment, predicting energy commodity requirements and negotiating more favorable energy and utilities supply contracts.

Operational and Strategic Issues:

Challenges: high energy costs; volatile energy prices; complex utility systems that are constantly changing; fragmented/inaccurate information; equipment and systems inefficiencies; poor return on capital; loss of experience when people retire.

Solution: monitor operations and financial performance; bring information together in an actionable form; improve efficiencies and overall site optimization; provide new insights on operations and reduce instrumentation errors; take energy contracts and prices into consideration; monitor and optimize emissions.

Strategic asset planning: identify and evaluate capital projects or operating improvements that reduce energy and utilities costs and consumption.