Virat Mahila Jagriti Sammelan and Gayatri Maha Yagya organised by Sausar Saktipeeth in the guideline of Santikunj Haridwara at Sausar from 23/01/2005 to 25/01/2005.

Many organizations have installed their stall in this Sammelan. Raymond Ltd. (Textile Division-Chhindwara) also organized an exhibition named as Urja Saunvardhan Jagriti Abhiyan. The objective of this exhibition was to develop awareness among common man about energy conservation. Second objective of this exhibition was to educate the people for use of energy efficient equipments and to demonstrate a comparison between energy efficient and general electrical equipments on the basis of energy consumption.

The response of this people for this exhibition was very good and positive. People have asked many questions about energy efficient products and their availability.

In this exhibition we have displayed comparison of unit consumption in Copper ballast against Electronics ballast, normal bulb against CFL lamp, 2 W Led lamp against 15 W nigh lamp, Aluminium wounded local make ceiling fan against copper wounded standard make ceiling fan, use of timers, time lag switches, display of posters and slogans on energy conservation (Power, Water and Oil).

We have distributed pamphlets containing electrical consumption data for daily used electrical equipments, information and tips on energy conservation. About 25000 people visited this exhibition.

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Kinetic Motor Company Limited, Pithampur, organized an awareness programme on Energy Conservation methods and techniques on 19/03/2005. The programme was on the guidelines of Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Government of India, Ministry of Power, New Delhi.

In this occasion children of Ideal School Mhowgaon along with teachers visited the factory. Mr. Millind Vaidya – Energy Manager, Mr. Pawan Surana, Mr. Sanjeev Shukla and Mr. Abdul Wali Khan of Energy Conservation Cell and Mr. Vijay Pande, Safety Officer explained about various methods and techniques adopted for Energy Conservation in an interactive meeting before proceeding to factory visit. The students keenly and enthusiastically observed and understood various energy efficient equipments and devices like Energy Efficient lightings, VVVF drives, Energy savers, EE Air Compressors, Intermediate Controller, Translucent Sheets, Timers, etc. Installed for energy conservation.

Children were also explained about efficient utilization of Renewable & Non Renewable Sources of energy & to adopt energy saving methods in their daily life. Students wholeheartedly took oath to start energy conservation practices immediately and assured to spread these messages among their friends and relatives.

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GACL

We also arranged visit of school children of Ranoli High school ( a village school near our Vadodara complex) to educate them on various devices saving energy installed in our plant at Vadodara. (Photographs enclosed) 56 school students visited the plant and took deep interest in devices during plant visits meant for saving energy in 05 March 2005.

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CHENNAI PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED

Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited had organized the visit of students of our neighbourhood schools to our Refinery on 16.03.2005. There were a total of 125 students who had attended the visit. They had been taken around the Refinery especially the areas where the Energy efficient equipments and devices have been installed. Additionally, we had shown a film on Energy Conservation. The main feature of the visit was the arrangement of a lecture by one of our Chief Managers on “Energy Conservation” followed by question and answers. Lunch, & light refreshments were provided to the students.

The response was overwhelming and the feedback from the neighbourhood schools was very positive.

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HINDUSTAN PAPER CORPORATION LIMITED
Nagaon Paper Mill

Training programme on Energy Conservation for Contractor on 09/03/2005 which was conducted by our Manager (Electrical) Shri D Sharan Covering details of classification of Energy; Primary & Secondary energy ; Commercial & Non-commercial energy ; Renewable & Non – Renewable energy ; Energy reserve; Global Energy conservation ; Effect of burning fossil fuel; Energy Conservation etc. The programme was attended by 20 contractors engaging in various departments of the mill.

Awareness campaign on “Energy Savings” among the House wives of ‘D’ Type Quarter and members of Ladies Club on 11-03-2005 at Zoon Beel Club, Kagajnagar, which was conducted by our Sr. Manager (Planning & Development) Shri A K Sharma. The programme was attended by 14 participants and the programme was rated as quite beneficial for their day to day life.

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The housewives are the backbone support of the family, they consume their most of time in the needs and needs of the families member. Certainly, almost housewives are well literate because the unit (ITI Ltd., Mankapur) is a leader in manufacturing of advanced stage value added electronics exchanges, so the employees are well technically experienced some of the housewives are teaching in the local school.

The film show in the context of National Campaign on Energy Conservation_2005 had been organized through Cable T.V. network from 18-03-05 to 25-03-05 three times in day at 10 AM, AT 2 PM, and 6 PM. The duration of film was 30 minutes.

The film contains approaches on focusing the awareness lessons of efficient energy utilization such as minimizing wastage of LPG in kitchens, use of better utensils, which are energy efficient etc.

The film in the form of CD was made available by Energy Conservation Cell through PCRA. The feedbacks are really result oriented in promoting energy efficiency and conservation in domestic use.

HINDUSTAN PAPER CORPORATION LIMITED

Organized interactive meeting and plant visit of school children to our mill. As a part of such activities first batch of 25 school children of class IX & X of HPC High School, Kagajnagar, Morigaon, Assam attended interactive meeting on 19-03-2005 from 9.30 a.m. to 10.15 a.m. followed by refreshment and plant visit from 10.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. During the visit Energy Efficient Equipment & devices installed in our plant have been shown to them for their knowledge. Shri B K Dash, Sr. Plant Engineer (Utilities) has conducted the interactive meeting and guided to the plant visit.

Nagaon Paper Mill is a unit of Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited (A Government of India Enterprise) set-up with the installed capacity of 1 lakh MT per annum writing & printing paper in the North East part of the country. The mill is located at Jagiroad in Morigaon District of Assam State. It is an integrated Pulp & Paper manufacturing unit with captive Caustic Soda/ Chlorine & Di-oxide Plants. In order to ensure uninterrupted supply of power for operations of the plant, a captive power plant of 30 MW capacity has been installed and is in successful operation.

In pursuit of its goal to produce paper of world-class quality at affordable prices, HPC has been continuously modernizing and upgrading its plant and equipment of the mills. After achieving over 100% capacity utilization efforts are afoot to augment the installed capacity of Nagaon Paper Mill by 30%.

In the interactive meeting with HPC High School students (25 Nos.) held on 19.03.2005 at Training Centre, NPM, the following Energy Conservation measured implemented in the mill were discussed and energy efficient equipment and devices installed to conserve energy were shown to them.

A) Electrical system

1. Fitting of VFD in motors (Secondary air fan and F.D. Fan of Coal Fired Boiler)
2. Right sizing of motors (22 kW motor fitting in Re-chipper instead of 110 kW initially)
3. Replacing conventional choke with High Frequency Electronic Ballast)
4. Replacing high wattage HPMW (High Pressure Mercury Vapour) lamp with low wattage Metal Halide/HPSV (High Pressure Sodium Vapour) lamp
5. Using of transparent sheet instead of asbestos sheet for optimum use of natural light (Finishing House)

B) Water system

1. Recovering of water from under flow of the water treatment clarifier by constructing of two numbers settling pits in Water Treatment Plant (WTP). Thus reducing 5000 Kl per day of Intake water
2. Recycling of backwater. (In power Boiler fan bearing cooling water, pumps gland cooling water, Hydrobin decanting water, Air Conditioning cooling outlet water is recycled in cooling tower to reduce fresh water consumption)

C) Waste Heat Recovery system

1. Installation of additional Economizer in Coal Fired Boiler to reduce exhaust flue gas to 170oC from 240oC.
2. Recovery of heat from Blow down steam.

HINDALCO INDUSTRIES LTD.

Organized a workshop on Energy Conservation Awareness Campaign to the School Children on 19th March 2005 involving about 85 students of our Aditya Birla Public School covering following programmes:

(i) Lecture on “Energy”, “Why Energy Conservation in present scenario” and “How to Conserve Energy” supported by live demonstration.
(ii) A quiz competition based on Energy Conservation followed by film show demonstrating various key factors on Energy Conservation.
(iii) The programme was conducted by plant visit of students to those areas where energy efficient equipments are installed.

Further, the undersigned was also present in the above Workshop and directly interacted with the students on the importance of energy conservation. The workshop was very effective and students yielded extensive knowledge about energy conservation and they committed to change their life style to ensure energy conservation.

TUTICORIN ALKALI CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS LIMITED

Arranged for a plant visit for the IX Std students of Geetha Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Anthiparasakthi Nagar, Muthiahpuram, Tuticorin-5 on 19th March 2005 to our factory.

Two days before the programme, a write-up for about 7 pages indicating the importance of Energy Conservation and Healthy Environment was sent to the students to have an idea of the programme to be conducted by us.

About 31 students from the above school along with 21 Trainees recently recruited in our Company under Engineering Subordinate Service Scheme welcomed the gathering and Head-Works of our Company inaugurated the programe.

Lectures on “Energy Conservation and Environmental Aspects” covering the following areas were given viz. Forms of Energy and its classification, Energy Scenario in the World/ India, Tips on Energy Conservation, Functions of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Air Pollution/ Acid Rain, Global Warming. Thereafter, the participants were taken for plant visit. On completion of the plant visit, quiz programme was conducted to the school children and the first best three students were selected and prizes were distributed to them. In the mid of the programme, refreshments were provided to them. On conclusion, lunch were provided to the students in our factory and were dropped at their school premises.

The feed back obtained from the participants indicates that from the above programme, we have cultivated the importance of Energy Conservation and they Healthy Environment at the present context to a greater extent.

Interaction with Ballarpur School Students:

On 1st March 2005 we have organized “BILT Exhibition” on Environment and Energy conservation awareness for near by school children & local people. In this exhibition 16 Schools & 680 school children participated & more than 1000 children observed the event. Mr. Abdul Rehman (Superintendent of Police) was the chief guest.

Following activities were organized in the exhibition.

1. Exhibition by different sections of Ballarpur Ind. Ltd. Unit Ballarpur
2. Science Exhibition by School children. (57 models by 250 children)
3. Painting competition for school children. (328 children participated)
4. Exhibition by Fibre Resource Deptt. (BILT)

Certificates were distributed to all the participants 1st & 2nd prizes along with trophies were given to the students for the best model in Science exhibition & for the best painting.

CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE

In accordance with the action plan indicated in the calendar of event of BEE, the Energy Conservation & Development Division has conducted two in-house energy conservation awareness programmes for the employees of CPRI during March 2005.

The first lecture programme was held on 14th March 2005 for Technicians, Technical Attendants of the Institute at Swayambu Memorial Hall, CPRI, Bangalore. 35 delegates took part in the lecture programme.

The second lecture programme was held on 28th March 2005 for Office Assistants, Personal Assistants and Sr. P.A’s of the Institute. 25 No. of delegates had took part in the lecture programme.

On both the dates, Shri A. Bhaskaran, Director, CPRI, had inaugurated the lecture programme.

Shri M. Siddhartha Bhatt, Joint Director, Shri Nagaraja Rao V. N., Scientific Officer and Shri Rajashekar P. Mandi, Engineering Officer of this Division, delivered lecture through power point presentation highlighting the need for conserving power, Governments Endeavor in this regard and some salient methods and practices that are to be followed in our daily life to conserve power. Some tips were also given to save LPG consumption in the domestic activities.

At the end of the lecture on both days, there was a good interactive session, during which the doubts raised by the delegates were clarified and also some suggestions came from the delegates to improve the lecture programme.

NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY COUNCIL

Conducted a two day training programme on “Managing Energy in Industries” at Hotel Orchid, Vile Parle (E), Mumbai on 16-17 March 2005.

The programme was attended by 23 engineers from different manufacturing, process and service industries. The programme focused on conducting energy audit and identifying energy saving opportunities in thermal and electrical systems. The programme also discussed the salient aspects of EC Act 2001 and the roles and responsibilities of industry for achieving energy efficiency. The broad programme coverage is given below.

• Energy Management
• Energy Conservation Act 2001
• Energy Vs Production
• Efficiency improvement and loss reduction in thermal energy systems
• Plant electrical systems & lighting
• Energy savings in end-use equipments
• Implementing energy conservation & role of ESCOs.

Shri S.B. Sadananda, Director and Shri T.S. Narayanan, Sr. Dy. Director from NPC were the core faculty for the above programme. Guest lectures from equipment manufacturers/ suppliers were also organized covering the following topics.

1. Application of Variable Speed Drives – Siemens Limited
2. Compressed air Management solution – Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Limited
3. Energy optimization in HVAC System – Voltas Ltd.