Applications for Energy Management Systems
The Energy Management System from EG Energy Controls has paybacks of less than 2 years and a track record proving energy savings from installed equipment. The system can be customized to varying applications and monitoring points. The system can monitor from 3 loads to over 17 loads in one section. This Energy Management System is suitable for small and large applications.
Industrial – Oil Refineries
From extensive evaluations of oil refineries it the major energy consuming processes are crude distillation, followed by the hydrotreater, reforming, and vacuum distillation. This is followed by a number of processes consuming a somewhat similar amount of energy, thermal cracking, catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, alkylate and isomer production.
By monitoring the various types of energy that is used for these processes, energy usage strategies can be identified.
Wireless meters will are placed on the equipment to be monitored. These wireless transmit- ters can provide one second or greater report- ing intervals and use self-contained batteries which can last up to 10 years.
Retail / Commercial – Supermarket
Supermarkets require high amount of electricity in order to maintain product integrity and a pleasant atmosphere. There is huge energy savings to be achieved, up to 7% over the total energy bill.
By being able to monitor each load individually the energy manager can better understand where an abnormal energy usage occurred. Stores can now be compared with each other to see which loads are performing better than others.
National chains can greatly benefit by having a centralized energy management software that collects all data and provides the charts and reports for statistic evaluation.
Maintenance costs can be drastically reduced since the ESS advanced energy management software will pinpoint the problem on the sub load metering devices instantly.
Government – Federal Buildings, Schools, Hospitals
The federal government is the single largest consumer of energy in the United States and in fiscal year of 2008 the US government spent $24.5 billion on energy. Of that $24.5 billion, over $7 billion was spent on energy to operate federal buildings.
Energy monitoring is crucial when it comes to optimizing energy federal buildings. The ESS Energy Management System can monitor energy usage for the overall building as well as it can be configured per floor level.
Each federal building will be connected to a main server which will collect the data and provide easy energy comparison usage for each building. As well, the ESS will alert the energy manager when abnormal energy usage or equipment failure has occurred.
Example sub-loads to monitor: