We invited technical papers on issue # EE 06 and received total 29 contributions, of which 3 were very good, 9 good, 12 average and rest were below average.

"Issue # EE 06
Any meaningful impact of an energy manager in a firm depends heavily on his/her ability to organize energy data logging as well as data collection from various departments of the firm not to mention data analysis and aggregation. The energy manager is faced with not so trivial issues such as comprehensiveness of data as well as correctness of data. Validation is as well an issue. Even in so called ISO 900X certified companies, which are supposed to regularly calibrate and repair in line instrumentation, sometimes instrumentation is simply not working. A stunningly simple procedure to make departments accountable for energy consumption is to either internally charge departments for their energy consumption, or even assign consumption ceilings to individual equipment. There are advantages as well as disadvantages making a boiler, or the ceramic tile department, or a motor-fan arrangement into a profit or loss centre. Tell us about your experience with internally charging departments for energy consumption, or any other management schemes to improve on energy accounting in your firm. No technical solutions please!! They are all known to us."

Paper submitted by Mr. Narasimhan Ganesan suggests for an online monitoring system for Energy consumption along with daily production monitoring. This will help company/firm to monitor energy cost for each product and eliminate errors from manual recording and giving transparent data to the management. He has suggested, the individual head of the plant to use their PC, for this purpose, managements needs to be convinced. Mr. Narasimhan has also substantiated with a live case study, we award him first prize.

Paper submitted by Mr. N. M. Majhi suggested a practical approach of energy manager by involvement of real people working in the plant, identifying the gaps through brain storming session, he has also attached a case study confirming the improvement we award him second prize.

The paper submitted by Mr. Manjeet Singh has suggested a preparation of energy balance sheet and emphasizes the need for energy accounting and posed a question that if you cannot measure you cannot control which is correct he has also given a case study, we award him third prize.


The winners are:
(1) Mr. Narasimhan Ganesan   First Prize         (Rs. 5000)
(2) Mr. N. M. Majhi                        Second Prize   (Rs. 3000)
(3) Mr. Manjeet Singh                  Third Prize        (Rs. 2000)

There are two other appreciable papers worth mentioning though no award is given, these are submitted by:
1. Mr. Satya Prakash
2. Mr. P. P. Dhamangaonkar

Congratulations to all the winners! Keep up the good work

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