Here
is an opportunity to show your skills on energy management
and earn money.
We invite you to write a technical paper on the issue
given below:
Issue # EE 12
Don’t
waste your time counting peanuts!
Whenever a well paid energy auditor meets a not so well
paid energy manager, I wonder whether both have an allocation
efficient strategy to jointly conduct an energy audit
and to what extent there is a match. By allocation efficiency,
I mean the principle of not going after the peanut opportunities.
Recommending to switch to compact fluorescent lights
(CFL) in the office of a 210 MW power plant is not my
vision of looking at a power plants energy efficiency
performance.
In
case you don’t want to waste your time and
improve your image to know where to start first, two
choices of priority setting are appealing:
1) Establish a priority list of hardware with the highest
energy consumption per year.
2) Establish a priority list of hardware with the highest
R ratio.
R = |
Annual energy consumption |
| Annual hardware depreciation |
In case you prefer 1, you may be missing a point about
allocation efficiency of time and money.
All equipment with a large R has this typical characteristic
that small modifications may result in large percentage
savings in fuel costs. This certainly helps in verification
of cost savings, because verification of 20% energy savings
is easier than proving 1% savings in a permanently changing
environment.
Furthermore once the performance testing of an equipment
with a high ratio R is completed, one may look into junking
and replacing it all together. Hardware with a high R
is usually an investment where you can afford an investment
error. A typical case is a large fan. You may buy a fan
for Rs. One Lakh. A week later a performance test reveals
that the fan is a total mismatch. The recommedation is
to buy a different design costing Rs. 1.2 Lakh. In other
words you have just invested within a week Rs. 2.2 Lakhs.
Nevertheless it is a reversible investment error and
you may save substantial future electricity costs that
are manifold larger than the loss of Rs. 1 Lakh for the
junked wrong selection, because R is large.
We are having a team competition for the most accurate
and complete inventory list concerning R-values. See
attached Excel Spreadsheet for details. We have given,
R new and R old in the Excel sheet to compute the values
of R for the existing and new replacement.
The
three best teams will win Rs.
1,00,000 /- , Rs. 50,000 /-, Rs. 25,000 /- respectively.
Remember a team is larger one, therefore we expect at
least 3 members involved in the exercise. All members
of the team should be named.
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