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CII taskforce for PAT to help sugar industry achieve energy efficiency
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Tuesday, 17 September, 2013, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
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In order to help the sugar industry become world-class in energy efficiency practices and help it embark upon a new work culture and share knowledge and best practices among the firms, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) set up a taskforce for perform, achieve and trade (PAT) practices at the Green Sugar Summit 2013, which took place recently and was co-organised by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency.
The subjects discussed included co-generation systems, co-gen plant auxiliaries, sugar processing, latest developments in upgrades and retro-fits. Gaurav Goel, managing director, Dhampur Sugar Mills Limited, and the chairman of the summit, said that the sugar mills in the northern, southern and western parts of the country already adhere to their own sets of best practices.
“Efforts are being made to encourage peer-to-peer learning and to put the lessons learnt from the experiences of other sugar mills into practice. Some mills have achieved 33% steam consumption on cane and 23-24kWh power per tonne cane crushed, and some have achieved 45% and 32 kWh respectively. In the coming months, the CII taskforce would try to put in place best practices in every mill and help them become more energy efficient and greener,” he said.
K K Chakravarti, energy economist, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, said, “The sugar industry has immense potential to be more energy-efficient and the government should list it among the designated consumers of energy very soon. It will be to the industry's advantage to create energy consumption records, as the baseline targets of energy conservation will be fixed on their latest three-year performance.”
There are eight industries in India that have the status of designated consumers of power. These are power, cement, steel, pulp and paper, caustic soda, aluminum, textiles and sponge iron. For the sugar industry – which is grappling with the twin challenges of rising costs and lower returns – to attain this status, they have to get their act together as far as the conservation and efficient use of energy are concerned.
“Modernisation and an automated online monitoring system would play very important roles in achieving word-class energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness,” Chakravarti stated. He added that management aspects and achieving an International Standards Organisation (ISO) 5001 standard were also important for better efficiency, and urged companies to set energy efficiency targets and make tangible achievements.
Chakravarti added that during the Twelfth Five-year Plan (which commenced in 2012 and will conclude in 2017), the Bureau of Energy Efficiency plans to conduct training programmes for operators. The energy economist stated that these programmes would be practice-oriented, and added that their objective is to ensure that the energy conservation methods were actually put into practice.
In his concluding remarks, S Raghupathy, executive director, CII Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre (CII – Godrej GBC), said the body would institute special energy efficiency awards for sugar mills in 2014, and would also prepare a best practices manual covering international and national best practices for the sugar industry, and establish a green company rating system for the sugar mills.
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