Guide – Energy Reduction
Minimising your carbon footprint whilst improving your work environment and reducing costs.
Minimising your carbon footprint whilst improving your work environment and reducing costs.
AES energy reduction services deliver a huge multitude of benefits for industrial and manufacturing companies. Our energy reduction services cover four main areas, all of which significantly reduce energy consumption.
Low Energy Lighting
Energy efficient lighting utilises more advanced technologies such as LED, T5 and induction lighting. Not only do these products have a much longer life span (with a much slower Lumen depreciation), they are much more efficient in terms of Lumen per Watt. Plus, they outperform previous commonplace solutions such as incandescent, CFL and halogen bulbs. The latest products utilise an efficient electricity conversion system and reduce the amount of energy wasted on heat.
Voltage Optimisation
Electricity suppliers in the UK are allowed to provide electricity to commercial properties at 230v, with an allowed -5/+10% tolerance. This means that the voltage input into a business can be much higher than is actually required. All equipment is designed to run at the most efficient levels, but poor control over the incoming voltage (and tolerances) can significantly reduce efficiency.
Variable Speed Drives
While some machinery needs to run a fixed speed within a production environment, many motor applications, fans and pumps have different processes. This is where a VSD is beneficial. VSDs convert the incoming electrical supply of fixed frequency and voltage into a variable frequency and voltage output to the motor, with a corresponding change in speed and torque. Most are controlled automatically.
Energy Efficient Motors
A key area where industrial, engineering and manufacturing businesses can realise significant gains in energy reduction is replacing old plant machinery motors with modern, energy efficient motors. Efficiency is very simply the ratio of the mechanical power delivered by a motor to the electrical power supplied. E.g. an 83% efficiency ratio means that a motor is successfully converting 83% of electrical energy into mechanical energy, with 17% being lost – most commonly through heat dissipation.
Guide – Electrical Contracting
Proactive electrical maintenance to minimise production downtime and eliminate inefficiencies
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Guide – Safety Compliance
Ensuring workplaces are safe environments where all staff are protected
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Guide – Energy Reduction
Minimising your carbon footprint whilst improving your work environment and reducing costs.
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Guide – Control & Automation
Modernising production operations to maximise output efficiencies.
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