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Date of upload - 23 December 2009
Case Studies - Index ; General - Case Studies (8 Mb, pdf format)
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Aluminium
Date of upload - 23 December 2009
India’s Aluminum Industry Productivity, Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emissions


Automobile
Date of upload - 19 October 2009
Eicher Motors, India - Realizing Sustainable Growth
Date of upload - 28 August 2009
AML


Building
Date of upload - 23 December 2009
Design Considerations
EE in buildings
EE in industrial HVAC
Energy Audit of IIT campus
ES COMMERCIAL BUILDING
LEED
Date of upload - 20 October 2009
Developing Energy Efficient Building Envelope (Roof)
The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel Case Study
Grand Hyatt Hotel Case Study
Power & Energy Audit in Commercial Buildings and Corporate Offices
Energy Efficient - Buildings Envelope - From the ECBC Perspective
Date of upload - 19 October 2009
IT Sector - IT-data Centre Energy Efficiency
Energy Conservation Tips in Buildings
Energy Savings in Home Appliances
Energy conservation measures for Commercial Buildings
General - Lighting - Energy Efficient Lighting and Barriers In Its Implementation
Date of upload - 28 August 2009
IT Sector - Dell computers
ECBC article TERI
Holiday Inn Hotel
JJ hospital
Led lighting
MSEB


Cement
01. Coromandel Cement - Company Case Study
02. Coromandel Cement - Improved drying of coal through Insulation and Additional Hot Air Duct from the Coal Mill Furnace
03. Coromandel Cement - Increase of Coal Mill Drying Chamber Lifter Height and Angle
04. Coromandel Cement - Increase of inlet duct diameter of Circulating Air Fan to Reduce Flow Velocity and Pressure Drop
05. Coromandel Cement - Modification of Furnace Grate Bars and Coal Particle Size
06. Coromandel Cement - Prevention of False Air Entry across Coal Mill Circuit
07. Coromandel Cement - Reduction of Motor Size in Limestone Primary Crusher
08. Coromandel Cement - Reduction of Speed of Circulating Air Fan in the Coal Mill through Replacement of AC Motor with DC Motor

Ceramics
01. BFCL - Company case study
02. BFCL - Heat Loss Reduction from Furnace by Insulation, Reduced Operation of Burners and Maintained Sager Sizes
03. BFCL - Heat Recovery from Furnace Exhaust for Reuse in Dryer
04. BFCL - Washing Raw Materials in Cascade Tanks Instead of Using a Hose


Chemical
Date of upload - 28 August 2009
Siflon Drugs
UPL
01. Active Carbon - Improved Steam Efficiency through Insulation, Capacitor Banks and Parallel Mode Steam Connection
02. Active Carbon - Moisture Removal from Raw Material using Hot Air before Entry into Kiln
03. Active Carbon - Preheating of the Combustion Air in the Rotary Kiln with Steam Coils
04. Active Carbon - Replacement of Incandescent Lights with Fluorescent Lights
05. Active Carbon - Case Study
06. Dow Chemical Case study - DUPONT
07. Siflon Drugs - Company case study
08. Siflon Drugs - Increased Solvent Recovery through Installation of Additional Cooling Tower
09. Siflon Drugs - Replacement of Wood Fired Boiler with High Efficiency Coal or Oil Fired Boiler
10. Siflon Drugs - Technology Upgrade: Planetary Cooler, Bucket Elevators, and Crusher/Roller Press


CHP
Date of upload - 23 December 2009
CHP - Biomass


Equipment
Date of upload - 20 October 2009
Air Conditioner - A Packaged Air Conditioners: The Scene in India
Tips for Energy Saving in Industrial Equipments
Pumps - Improving Pumping System Performance
Date of upload - 19 October 2009
Fans - Energy Conservation with PARAG Energy Efficient Axial Flow FRP Fans ; Reference URL - www.paragfans.com
Fans - Fan Engineering ; Reference URL - www.paragfans.com
Fans - Fan Noise & Vibration ; Reference URL - www.paragfans.com
Fans - Owners Manual - For Operation and Maintenance ; Reference URL - www.paragfans.com
Furnace - Energy Savings In Process Furnace Through ESCO
Furnace - Case Study : Investment in Energy Efficient Equipment for Industrial Processes
Pumps - Energy savings in industrial water Pumping Systems
General - Equipment - Operations & Maintenance Savings for Industry

Municipality
Date of upload - 19 October 2009
India Fact Sheet
Watergy Case Study - Karnataka, India
Watergy Case Study - Pune, India
Watergy Case Study - Vishakhapatnam, India
Watergy Case Study - Vizianagaram, India
BEE - Manual for the Development of Municipal Energy Efficiency Projects


Paper
Date of upload - 19 October 2009
L & T Presentation
01. ITC Ltd - Company case study
02. ITC Ltd - Flash Steam Recovery from Boiler Blow Down and Steam Air Heater Condensate
03. ITC Ltd - Increase of Heat Transfer Area in the Blow Heat Recovery System to Improve Heat Recovery
04. ITC Ltd - Lighting improvements: Fluorescent Lights with Electric chokes, Metal halide lamps, Automatic timers, Lighting transformers
05. ITC Ltd - Reduction of Unburnt Coal and Coal fines in Boiler by Installing Fines Separation Mechanism and Low Speed Crusher
06. ITC Ltd - Replacement of Inefficient Vacuum Fans with more Efficient and Higher Capacity Vacuum Fans at Former Machines


Iron & Steel
Date of upload - 23 December 2009
Iron & Steel - Energy Saving Steel Casting Plant
Date of upload - 19 October 2009
Iron & Steel - Case Study
Steel - Carbon Credits
Steel - Reducing water pumping costs
01. India Case Study - Energy efficiency and conservation in steel coil manufacturing units
02. VSP Ltd - Adjust Fan Blades in Cooling Tower at Chilled Water Plant for Winter and Summer Conditions
03. VSP Ltd - Company case study
04. VSP Ltd - Electricity Conservation at Feed Air Compressors of Air Separation Plant
05. VSP Ltd - Optimum Utilization of Field Current in Rolling Mills to Reduce Electricity
06. VSP Ltd - Reduction of Running Cone Crushers at Raw Material Handling Plant
07. VSP Ltd - Rubber Shots Cleaning Technology to Improve Vacuum in Turbo Generator Condenser


Textiles
Date of upload - 20 October 2009
Textile - Air Conditioning for Synthetic Fibre Plants
Date of upload - 19 October 2009
Textile - Energy Audit
Textile - EC ; Reference URL - www.forbesmarshall-inc.com
Textile - treatment dryer
Date of upload - 28 August 2009
Textiles - Cluster of industries 2
Textiles - Cluster of industries
Textiles - Indo Rama

General
Date of upload - 23 December 2009
Dairy - ES in Dairy
EE and DSM
EE_SSI
Energy Auditor Checklist
HeatTransfer
Hotel-Restaurant Tips
IT-Datacentre
IT-ES Data Center
Principles of Heat Transfer
Reducing PF cost
Reducing PF
Power - The Maintenance Manager’s Guide to circuit protection
Refinery - Energy Saving
Date of upload - 20 October 2009
DSM Mahesh Patankar
Energy Savings in Industry
Sugar - Energy Efficiency in Sugar Plant Steam and Power Generation
Date of upload - 19 October 2009
Tips - General-equipment energy efficiency worksheet
General - BIOMASS ; Reference URL - cgpl.iisc.ernet.in
Date of upload - 28 August 2009
Breweries - Charminar
Fertilizer - Oswal
Glass - HNGIL
Petrochemical - SPIC
Power - CUL
Refractory - SEPR
Rice Mill - Nizamabad

Post - June 2003

a.    Aluminium
01. Indian Aluminium Company, Limited
Taloja plant was conceived in late sixties as part of INDAL's plans to expand and develop its integrated activities in Western region, mainly with an idea of catering to the increasing demand of Aluminium products.

b.    Automobiles

01. Hyundai Motor India Limited
HMIL which commenced commercial production in Sept.1998, is the second largest Automobile company in India producing Santro, Accent & Sonata cars.

02. Kinetic Motors Co. Ltd, Pithampur
The company has obtained ISO 9002 certification in the year 1999 and is gearing up for ISO 9001-2000 certification. The company exports a sizable No. of scooters to countries like Sri Lanka, Argentina, Mexico, Columbia etc and has been receiving Export Excellence Award for 8 years in the past.

03. Tata Engineering Jamshedpur
Tata Engineering (Telco) is leading automobile giant in the country having its manufacturing units located at Jamshedpur, Luknow and Pune. Tata Engineering which enjoys nearly 62.5% market share in commercial vehicle sector had a turnover of Rs. 8918 crores during 2001-02. The unit at Jamshedpur which is the mother unit manufactures Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicles from 8 to 40 ton gross vehicle weight.

04. Tata Engineering Pune
Tata Engineering is the flagship company of the Tata group with an annual turnover of approximately Rs.89160 Lakhs in 2001-2002. Its product range covers passenger cars, multi-utility vehicles, light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles for goods and passenger transport.


c.    Cement

01. The Associated Company of Cement
Details of actions taken for reducing energy consumption.

02. Birla Cement Works, Chittorgarh
Birla Cement Works, a unit of M/s.Birla Corporation Limited (previously known as Birla Jute & Industries Limited) was installed in 1967. Birla Corporation Limited is a multifaceted manufacturing concern producing Cement, Jute products, Synthetic yarn, Linoleum, Carbide, Steel Castings, Auto Trims etc. having Regd.Office at Calcutta.

03. Jamul Cement Works
Jamul Cement Works, one of the units of The Associated Cement companies Limited, was set up in the year 1965 with a capacity of 15.8 lakh tonnes. It is the first plant established in the country with the sole aim of utilizing blast furnace slag, a waste product generated in the manufacturing process of steel of Bhilai steel Plant. It can boast as a first plant of its kind to produce 100% PSC right from its inception.

04. Larsen & Toubro Limited- A.P.Cement Works Andhra Pradesh
Details of Energy Conservation Achievements in Year 2001-2002

05. Madras Cements Ltd.
Madras Cements Ltd., was the most ambitious diversification of the Ramco Group which was founded by Sri. P. A. C. Ramasamy Raja, cousin of the then Chief Minister of composite Madras state and later Governor of Orissa. It was incorporated in 1957 and installed first cement plant at R. R. Nagar in the Virudhunagar District, Tamil Nadu. The commercial cement production started in 1961.

06. Saurashtra Cement Limited
Saurashtra Cement Limited is Owned By The Mehta Group of Industries. Mehta Group started Cement Manufacturing Unit with One Kiln in the year 1960 at village Adityana, Ranavav Near Porbander & subsequently added 3 more production lines one after the other to raise Production capacity from 0.22 Million tonnes per annum to 1.2 million tonnes per annum today.

07. Shree Digvijay Cement Company Limited
Shree Digvijay Cement Company Limited was established in the year 1946 and its first kiln of 90,000 Tones/Annum was commissioned in the year 1948. With the passage of time Company kept on upgrading technology and equipment's, In 1984, company installed a Dry process kiln with two string separate line calcinor, and latest 18 MW Diesel generating sets in 1999. Today an ISO 9002 and API quality system certified Company producing more than 11,00,000 Tones of seven types of Cement.

08. Tiles and Technology
An IT-enabled system saves energy and improves productivity and profits in the brick and tile industry in Kerala. This initiative was supported by EMC Kerala. Such state-level action is necessary for the success of the Energy Conservation Act at the national level


d.    Chemicals

01. Atul Limited
Atul Limited is one of the leading manufacturers of over 500 products including agrochemicals, Bulk Chemicals, Bulk drugs & bulk drug intermediates, Cresols & cresol derivatives, Dyes & dye intermediates, Epoxy resins & epoxy hardeners, Formaldehyde, Speciality chemicals and Wood adhesives. Atul Limited ( formerly Atul Products Ltd) was established in 1947 on the banks of river Par in Valsad district of Gujarat 200 km north of Mumbai, stretching over in 1300 acres area.

02. Chemfab Alkalis Limited, Pondicherry
Details of Energy Conservation plans.

03. IFFCO, Phulpur
The HP stripper in Urea plant has been replaced with a stripper having better metallurgy then the earlier on. Since this stripper works under a very corrosive atmosphere thinning of tubes occurs on a regular basis therefore these stroppers have a certain life. The earlier stripper having titarium tubes was installed in 1991 and it had consumed its life. Due to this many operation related problems were being faced. It was causing limitation in increasing the plant load and also due to poor heat transfer steam consumption was high.

04. India Polyfibers Limited
India Polyfibres Limited, situated at Barabanki (U.P), 28 Kms from Lucknow, started commercial production in January, 1987. The Company is engaged in manufacturing of Polyester Staple Fibre, Polyester Tow and Speciality Polyester Fibres with technology from Du Pont, USA. IPL had an installed capacity of 15,000 MT per annum but with its own development programmes, the Company has been able to enhance its capacity to 19400 MT per annum in 1994-95, 22400 in 1997-98 and again to 31046 on 31.3.2002

05. Jubliant Organosys Limited
Jubilant Organosys Limited is a manufacturer of chemicals and chemical products. It was incorporated in the year 1978 under the Companies Act, 1956 .The company is part of Jubilant Corporation, which also includes Jubilant Enpro, Domino's, Jubilant Biosys.


e.    Coal Mines
01. The Singareni Collieries Company Limited
Presentation on the Activities and methods adopted by Singareni Collieries Company Limited on Energy Conservation.

f.    Fertilizers

01. Madras Fertilizers Limited
Madras Fertilizers Limited, a Public Sector Undertaking established in 1966 was largest single stream fertilizer plant to be set-up in 1971 in South India engaged in manufacture and marketing of Urea, Complex Fertilizers and Bio Fertilizers and trading in Agro chemicals.

02. National Fertilizers Limited
National Fertilizers Limited was established on 23rd August 1974 for setting up two fertilizer plants at Bhatinda (Punjab) and Panipat (Haryana) based on partial oxidation of fuel oil. W hen Govt. of India undertook the task of reorganization of fertilizer sector in 1978; the Nangal Unit of Fertilizer Corporation of India was merged with National Fertilizers Limited. Later on NFL executed two numbers gas-based plant at Vijaipur (Madhya Pradesh) on HBJ gas pipeline. National Fertilizers Limited is now operating three fuel oil based plants located at Nangal, Bhatinda and Panipat and two gas based plants, at Vijaipur. The capacity of three fuel oil based plants is; 900 Te/day of Ammonia, and 2*1350 TPD of gas based plant at Vijaipur. 1000 TPD of urea at Nangal, which has been revamped to a capacity of 1448TPD in 2000-01 and 1550 TPD of urea at Bhatinda and Panipat. Capacity of gas-based plant at Vijaipur is 4*1100 TPD of urea. Company at present occupies the position of the largest producer of Nitrogenous fertilizers in the country.

03. Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd., Trombay Unit
Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited, Chembur, a Government of India Undertaking is one of the largest integrated Fertilizer and Industrial chemicals complex in the country. It was incorporated on 6th March'1978 on reorganization of the erst-while Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd. and National Fertilizer Limited.

04. Shriram Fertilisers and Chemicals
Shriram Fertilisers and Chemicals (SFC) is a division of DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd. , a company engaged in the manufacture of Urea, PVC, Caustic Soda, Liquid Chlorine, Hydrochloric Acid, Cement and Textiles Yarn and also marketing of hybrid seeds, DAP and Pesticides . The Shriram Fertilizers & Chemicals complex is located at Kota, Rajasthan. The fertilizer unit was commissioned in February 1969 by Chiyoda Chemical Engineering and Construction Co. of Japan. Installed plant capacities were 450 TPD of Ammonia and 700 TPD of Urea.

05. APR Packaging Limited
APR Packaging Limited Unit Ashti an ISO 9002 company belongs to APR Packaging Ltd., the torch bearer of Thapar Group. The factory located 60 km away from Ballarshah in a small remote village Ashti at Maharashtra state. The unit manufactures Extensible Sack Kraft, other industrial papers and multi-wall sacks for packaging. Commencing commercial production in August 1991, the unit has acquired 9002 in 1995 and stabilised its production with consistent quality products. We are going to acquire the ISO 14001 and also are in the process of implementing the Environmental Management System in our Unit.


g.    Furnaces
01. Big efficiency in small scale-furnace
The utensil-manufacturing cluster in Jagadhri is a shining example of how upgrading technology by the Energy Management Division of National Productivity Council provides an incentive for tapping energy productivity improvements.

h.    HVAC
01. Ramco Systems Ltd.
Ramco is a chennai based software company. Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), sugested a solution to reduce the energy consumption. which was sucessfuly implemented at Ramco Systems. Total investment was Rs. 3.70 Lakhs and payback period is 7 months. Good sucessful case study..

i.    Paper

01. JK Papers Mills
JK Paper Mills an, integrated Pulp & Paper Plant is a dynamic family member of JK Organisation was commissioned in October, 1962 in the backward region of the erstwhile district of Koraput in the State of Orissa with a single Paper Machine of installed capacity 18,000 TPA. In 1970 the first expansion took place by the installation of the 2nd Paper Machine for the manufacture of machine-glazed wrapping and Kraft Paper. In the year 1972 the 3rd Paper Machine was added which presently caters to the increasing and promising segment of the market of Copier grade papers.

02. Star Paper Mills Limited
Star Paper Mills Limited ,an ISO 9001-2000 company , is an integrated pulp & Paper mill having four paper machines producing around 60000 TPA of quality paper. The company has produced 60196MT of finished paper in year 2001-02.The company is managed by the DUNCAN GOENKA group, headed by Shri G.P.Goenka. It has made continuous investment for pollution control, energy conservation, replacement of old & obsolete units for improvement in product quality & increased output.

03. Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited Kagithapuram - Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited, known as TNPL is the largest bagasse, an agricultural residue, based paper unit in India presently having an installed capacity of 1,80,000 tpa of Newsprint and Printing & Writing Paper in various combinations. It is a Government of Tamil Nadu Enterprise commissioned in 1985 and is the pioneer in commercially successful production of Newsprint from bagasse in the entire world. Recognizing the pioneering effort, World Bank had extended a loan of US $ 100 million through IDBI in 1981 and based on its performance, World Bank for the first time directly financed the Company to the tune of US $ 75 Million for its expansion project in 1993 for enhancing capacity from 90,000 tpa to present level.


j.   Petrochemicals

01. Winning strategies for industries through Energy Conservation (IOCL)
   Coal was the major source of energy for mankind before discovery of crude petroleum oil.World in general as well    as developing countries was heavily dependent on coal for their energy requirement. However after discovery of    petroleum, the demand of crude oil went up by leaps and bounds simply because of the reason that petroleum    products have all advantages over coal as a source of energy.

02. Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited
   Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited, formerly Madras Refineries Limited, a government company under section    617 of the companies act, 1956 was commissioned in the year 1969 as a joint venture of National Iranian Oil    Company (NIOC), AMOCO of USA and Government of India. The refinery was designed to process 2.5 MMTPA of    Imported crude oil from Iran, namely Darius Crude of Sulphur content 1.8 - 2.5 % by wt. This refinery was one of the    first lube based refineries in India which provided a wide range of products and lube base stocks. The main    products from the refinery includes LPG, Naphtha, Motor Gasoline, Kerosene, Aviation Turbine Fuel, HSD, LDO,    Lube oil, Furnace oil, Sulfur, and Asphalt. Later in the year 1980,the capacity was raised to 2.8 MMTPA.

03. Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (Baroda Complex)
   Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited with management control by Reliance Petroinvest Co. and one of the    Navaratans established in 1969 by Govt. of India is a leading entity in Corporate circles of India. IPCL has    formulated ambitious expansion plans and is currently considering upgrading and expansion of existing facilities.    IPCL's multi-product portfolio includes Polymers, Synthetic Rubber, Synthetic Fibre & Fibre Intermediates, Solvents,    Industrial Chemicals, Synthetic Resins, Engineering Plastics, Catalysts, Absorbents, Wire and Cable Compounds.    Along with Baroda other two operating complexes are at Nagothane in Maharashtra and Gandhar near Bharuch.

04. Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited Maharashtra Gas Cracker Complex (MGCC)
   The Govt incorporated Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited in March, 1969. Of India, it was, at that moment,    only the second company in the country to be engaged in the manufacture and marketing of the petrochemical    products. IPCL's first Baroda based Aromatics complex was commissioned in 1973. In 2001-2002 Baroda complex    produced 3.94 lakh metric tones of merchant products (104% capacity utilization. IPCL's second petrochemical    complex, based on associated gases on Bombay high was commissioned in 1991 known as Maharashtra Gas Cracker Complex (MGCC) at Naghothane in Raigad district of Maharashtra. MGCC is contemporary on    technology and has produced LLDPE for the first time in India. MGCC complex has achieved the production of 4.35    lakh metric tones of merchant products, resulting in capacity utilization of 102 %.. The contribution of polymers was    87 % , fibre & fibre intermediates was 12 %.


k.   PVC
01. Texxone Pvt. Ltd
The company is having 3 coating lines, each line consuming 100 KVA average with additional 100KVA for other utilities, such as Fuel oil heater, compressors, thermic fluid heater, cooling tower, etc (at operating load condition / Not connected load). Therefore totally 400 KVA at operating condition. But all the above loads are not simultaneously ON for period of time, this loading will vary according to the controller ON/OFF, compressor ON/OFF, T.F.H. ON/OFF etc. So the company reaches the average Maximum Demand (MD) of 346 K.V.A. in our total sanctioned demand of 350 K.V.A.so far.