Brewery saves GBP60,000 in annual energy costs
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Eriks UK product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Mar 17, 2008
A FLIR ThermaCAM P640 was used to study heat and energy loss in the Coors brewery in Burton.
The new Eriks thermography department in Tyseley, Birmingham has helped the Coors brewery in Burton save up to GBP60,000 annually in energy costs.
Coors worked with WEMS (Wyko Electro Mechanical Services) and initiated a survey, using thermal imaging to study the heat and energy loss from diverse areas of its facility.
Taking two days, the survey cost Coors less than GBP1000 and was conducted using a FLIR ThermaCAM P640 and covered boiler houses, overhead pipe work, tank houses, brew house, powder rooms and outside areas across the brewery.
Duncan Webb, Thermography Business Development Manager, said: "Our work with Coors offers a great example of the capability of the thermography department".
"We assess the integrity of a customer's building".
"We look at their pipe work, heating systems, cooling equipment, windows, roofs, lagging, floors and spot areas of inefficiency".
"We then offer hard figures which show directly the costs incurred by different types of heat loss and present the customer with recommendations, a budget quotation for repair work and offer a follow-up survey to confirm that the work has solved the relevant problems".
Once the survey was complete a simple report was generated for Coors' Energy Manager, including digital photographs alongside thermographic images highlighting 'hot spots'.
Alongside this WEMS also provided an easy to use power loss calculation, the total power loss is a combination of the loss through convection and radiation.
The power emitted from a pipe is calculated and as the price of electricity per kW/h for Coors is known then the cost to heat the surrounding air can be determined.
This report highlighted an enormous range of potential savings for the brewery from GBP288 per annum for a minor loss up to GBP21,000 per annum for some outside pipework.
The report identified potential savings of around GBP60,000, although to achieve this saving the brewery would have to invest in some repair work, all of which can be done through WEMS.
As a result of the thermographic survey several steam leaks were also identified which were not taken account of in the total power loss calculations.
As even a 1/4in hole can cost over GBP200 per week.
Eliminating these types of leak could provide further savings which are not included in main report.
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