Leading supplier of insulation saves 13 800 EUR a year
A leading supplier of fire resilient stone wool insulation, commonly used in building construction, industrial plants, and automotive applications, reached out to Atlas Copco to increase the efficiency of their compressor room.
The Challenge
The compressor room consists of two oil-injected screw compressors. One of the units worked on low load, which affected the compressor room's overall operation. In addition, the customer did not have a back-up compressor in case something went wrong
The Solution
The Atlas Copco team conducted an AIRScan audit of the entire compressor room. The findings were compiled in an AIRScan Report, along with an action plan to improve energy savings. We proposed a turnkey solution with a complete redesign of the compressor room.
An Optimizer 4.0 Central Controller was installed to reduce the number of unloaded hours of loaded and unloaded compressors, which optimizes the performance of the compressor room.
The older piping system was replaced with AIRnet as a sustainable quick win.
Pressure sensors, a flow meter and a dew point meter were installed to measure the actual savings. Thanks to SMARTLINK, the customer can stay on track of these savings.
- New filters were installed to minimize pressure drops.
An extra unit was installed as back up.
The Outcome
Via SMARTLINK, we can track the actual savings.
Before installation
After installation
As such, we could conclude that the complete redesign of the compressor room reduced the energy consumption with 91 800 kWh a year, which is equal to 13 800 EUR/year. In addition, we realized a reduction of 427 tons of CO2 emissions per year.
