Emerson Process Management has announced the Smart Energy Initiative, a global programme designed to combine its industrial energy expertise with advanced energy management technologies to enable customers to leverage more renewable fuels, lower energy costs, and reduce emissions.
Emerson’s new Industrial Energy Group will focus on modernising and improving the performance of powerhouses, the onsite utilities that provide steam and electricity to power industrial operations, while also improving how the manufacturing process consumes energy. This holistic approach ensures the greatest efficiency in production of energy, plus reduced waste and inefficiencies where energy is used. Emerson technologies and expertise provide the industry’s only turnkey energy optimisation programme to help refiners, chemical producers and other manufacturers significantly reduce energy costs and emissions.
“With industrial manufacturers consuming an estimated 50% of the world’s energy, combined with rising fossil fuel prices and global mandates for reduced emissions, our customers need more than incremental efficiencies in energy management,” said Steve Sonnenberg, president of Emerson Process Management. “With the Smart Energy Initiative, Emerson is introducing a fundamentally new platform that can change energy economics globally.”
New patent pending innovation
At the heart of Emerson’s integrated technology platform is its True BTU technology, a patent pending innovation for calculating the actual BTU values of fuel sources, which makes reliable energy production predictable and repeatable.
“Our True BTU Combustion Control platform reinvents the current model of combustion management, which has been around since the 1920s and is still in practice today,” said Chip Rennie, director of Industrial Energy for Emerson. “This brings about a reinvention of combustion models, which will make the use of low cost fuels like biomass achievable and sustainable.”
For the first time, Emerson’s proprietary suite of software, combined with field control technologies, enables the powerhouse to interchangeably use the most available and affordable renewable or waste fuels – wood waste, food byproducts, animal waste, or manufacturing byproducts such as petcoke or off-gases – to consistently create steam to power their operations. It also delivers 21st century combustion solutions for greater efficiency and reliability when using waste and other renewable fuels which burn and deliver energy at variable and unpredictable rates.
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