Items Tagged with 'energy savings'

The logistics of installing solar in food and beverage facilities aren't simple, but plenty of facilities have successfully installed solar without disruptions.

Industrial heat pumps create more heat energy than the electrical energy they consume, making them efficient and potential replacements for boilers burning petroleum products, decreasing carbon footprints.

Gas-fired heating systems are being replaced by electrification technologies that offer higher efficiency, reduced emissions and improved process control.

What’s not to like about improving sustainability and protecting the environment while saving energy and money—and best of all, no equipment or software expenditures are necessary.

This approach to building systems operations and management can be used at a single site or with a portfolio.

Beverage-grade CO₂ upgrading systems will provide Liberty with an in-house supply of carbonation for beverage production.

Steam, like compressed air, is expensive to generate and easy to waste through leaks and any number of other issues.

According to ABB Electrification’s Energy Insights survey, companies feel that the continuing instability of energy is threatening their profitability and competitiveness.

During the last decade or so, the benefits of aseptic filling technology compared to traditional hot filling techniques have become well known in the food and drink sector. The benefits in terms of product quality have been well documented and discussed.¹ However, the environmental benefits, both in terms of energy consumption and typical lifecycle analysis of this packaging method are less understood.

The problem with a single article describing what’s new in saving energy is that by now we know where most of the energy waste is, and we’ve probably already fixed those issues—picked the low-hanging fruit.