A Way of Executives to know the Energy Saving
The methods of energy saving in industrial sectors can do them and receive feedbacks in short term. If you have good measures and managements you can save energy between 5-30% without any effecting the quantity and quality of the existing products. But they will affect to reduce the investment costs and help the overall of national economics, too.
The main factor to affect the efficient energy managements is the "Top Managements" who have assigned the policies and goals clearly and compactly. They have set a direct responsible person and monitored and evaluated continuously so the energy saving will obtain successfulness. The successfulness of energy saving hasn't only depended on the top management or employer, but also they have concluded many lower level managements or staffs under the same goals and proceeding methods. These concepts are like the same as the Quality Control of production process with team work of staffs of every department.
Proceeding Method on Preparing the Energy Management of Executive
They must to begin from the policy of top management and set a committee to respond and bring them to practice. They will start from collecting, studying and analyzing the related data and their results will consider to design the goals and plans of energy saving. And that they will come to the collecting step of techniques and pay back investment costs and will set the action plan and practice them to meet successfully. After that they will be evaluated for revising and finding the new solving methods.
1. Clearance Policy from Top Management: is the most importance and essentialness to begin any project as like a key to success. If the executive will support so the low level staffs will see them importantly, too and ready to the top management or employer, but also they have cooperative work. There are proceeding methods such as to fix the principle policy to assign every employers to held to practice and as a important subject must to proceed which should contain in the agenda of executive level meeting every time, to promote many activities to proceed to save energy and to be one of the normal duty of employee nothing special work.
Preparing the meeting of middle management and staffs to support them for emphasizing the main policy more clearly and request the cooperation of lower level staffs to give data to the energy saving committee. And the meeting gives them to explain the data of energy consumption, production capital, target and among of saving, and supporting the financing and man power to the energy committee.
2. Setting the Energy Committee: it has related to the efficient improvement of energy consumption in any level of production process to reduce energy requirement and has controlled the policy and operations of energy using with using the energy as stepping such as the Co-generation system to produce the electricity and heating in the same time to reduce the electricity purchasing from the Electricity Authority.
The management of these large level activities needs to have a direct responsible committee or team to proceed since target setting, proceeding control until monitoring and evaluation so the proceedings have done smoothly, continuously and successfully. But the one business will has the Energy Management Committee [EMC] or not, it has depended on size of business, amount of energy consumption and the ratio of energy values and total capital cost of production. The characteristic of EMC forming has a form such as the committee which considered from the most any energy consumption departments and from the representative of many departments. A chairman was selected by the member voting who has coordinated within EMS and has commanded directly from the company executive. The committee of each department might to set each subcommittee of department to help the activities of energy saving which they close to daily working like the 05 activities, It should set the policy about the time meeting of EMS and subcommittees and recorded EMS meeting and prepare a minute to propose the executive and the other hand the subcommittees prepared a minute to propose an EMS, too.
3. Collection and Analysis of Energy Consumption: to know the situation of energy consumption exactly such as which type of using, different quantity of energy consumption in many parts and energy costs. In addition it can inspect the drawbacks of energy using to improve them, the energy losses without getting any benefits for planning the improvement and increasing efficiency of energy using.
The corrected survey and analysis of energy consumption need some kind measured equipment such as thermometer, pressure gauge and flow rate meter, etc or from the recorders such as bill of electricity, oil and other fuels, etc. The analyzed results had been presented to the diagram clearly and easily to understand to follow to compare the next time.
In addition from the present data, we should collect the data of energy consumption at the past time, too. They were founded that in the past situation how to use energy and how much the energy losses or saving and use them to be the way to improve in the future time and baseline to compare in the next time. This information had been presented in form of the identification of energy consumption in many energy forms with energy values since the past time until present time. The energy consumption curve with relating to the amount of production, this curve is very useful to indicate the problems of energy using such as more higher than the past time in the same production, etc.
4. Setting the Goal and Project: it should help to be efficient energy saving. The good goal has come from understanding in the situation and potential of energy using, existing machines and equipments, agency and staffs including being activities with relating energy. The setting of goal can make 4 methods such as 1) an abstract goal such as our factory must to be an excellent energy saving, 2) a specific goal such as using the heat recovery with pay back period 3 years, 3) a perfect goal such as we must to save X energy unit per production unit and 4) a related goal such as we must to save energy in 2007 about 20%.
5. Collection and Selection of Suitable Energy Saving Project: it is a brainstorming from many operation departments and persons to try to activate everyone to cooperate to propose the improving project of energy saving. And we identified these ideas with feasible evaluating and suitability in field both of technique and financing. The selection of high potential project with setting the detail action plan for each steps.
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