Distrigas Process Advice ®
Higher performance, controlled costs
Massive investments are not always needed to enhance the performance of your thermal installations and reduce natural gas consumption. Sometimes a few simple modifications to your existing equipment are all that is needed in order to make more efficient use of your energy budget.
On the basis of detailed process data gathered by you or us, our experts provide know-how to ensure your machinery's optimum energy use. They listen to your needs and together; we seek solutions for each situation.
What Process Advice can do for you?
- Based on your process data or the findings of Process Metering, we draft a confidential report setting out both capital-intensive and non-capital-intensive solutions for optimizing your specific consumption and enhancing your throughput.
- Your existing facilities from now on score better in terms of specific consumption.
- We calculate whether investments will pay off.
No unnecessary costs
In process optimization, we always strive to optimize your existing installations first. Significant investments are only considered in the second phase. In this way you can lower your consumption without incurring unnecessary costs.
Process Advice - practical example
A European manufacture of gypsum blocks was looking for an energy-efficient way to optimize the drying process at one of its sites.
Pieter-Jan Jordens, Thermal & Metrology Engineer at Distrigas Gas Services: "Based on our metering data, we examined how we could use non-capital-intensive means to make a significant reduction in the consumption while increasing throughput. By combining the customer's expertise in gypsum processes with our expertise in thermal processes, we were able to upgrade existing installations to state-of-the-art status. We tested the results by comparing the upgraded performance of the unit with the performance of a new machine: they were the same. Thanks to the Process Advice, our customer saw its specific energy consumption drop by 20% while increasing its throughput by 12%. In addition to this, the upgrade led to a 20% reduction in CO2 emissions."
We produce:
- Non-capital-intensive technical upgrade proposals (OPEX, MANEX).
- Capital-intensive technical upgrade proposals (CAPEX).
- An estimate of potential savings, feasibility and payback time.
- Advice on operational costs and bottlenecking.
- Suggestions for sustainable process technologies and reducing CO2 emissions.
- Training proposals.
A tailor-made advice
- Are you searching for tailor-made advice to lower your natural gas consumption and to enhance the production capacity of your installations?
- Or a creative way to upgrade existing installations into state-of-the-art?
- Contact your Account Manager or send an e-mail to contact.netherlands
@distrigas.eu
