Knowledge Center: Helping Process Manufacturers to Go Green

Helping Process Manufacturers to Go Green

Targeting a wide range of energy-intensive process manufacturing facilities, Energy Management Solutions from Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) is a customizable portfolio of new and existing hardware, software and services to help improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

FIn the area of refining and petrochemical production, the solution additionally leverages expertise from Honeywell’s UOP subsidiary, which is a developer and licensor of process technology for refining and petrochemical industry.

The portfolio features the Honeywell Energy Dashboard, which gathers information from various instruments and systems and tracks their energy consumption against dynamic energy targets. Capturing and analyzing this data allows users to understand key energy indicators and how they affect overall energy consumption, and enables users to establish specific goals for reducing energy consumption, costs and the associated GHG emissions, as well as to measure actual performance against those goals.

“Many process manufacturing facilities have grown over time in ways that obscure the connections between operations and energy consumption,” said Harry Forbes, analyst with the ARC Advisory Group firm for manufacturing, energy, and supply chain solutions. “These facilities must have strategies in place to identify and execute energy improvements if they are to ensure profitability and appropriately manage emissions. Through Energy Management Solutions, Honeywell is providing a sound framework for helping manufacturers define and manage these strategies.”

Once energy saving potential has been identified, the Energy Management Solutions portfolio provides customizable hardware, software and services to improve performance, including enhancements to measurement and monitoring, control and optimization, heat recovery, feedstock optimization, advanced process technology, utilities optimization and services to sustain and even improve results over time.

For refining and petrochemical industries, HPS and UOP solutions can reduce energy consumption by up to 25 percent and the associated GHG emissions by up to 320 metric kilotons per year. For other process manufacturing industries like pulp and paper, Energy Management Solutions can help reduce energy consumption by up to 20 percent and associated GHG emissions by up to 44 metric kilotons per year.

“The combination of volatile energy prices and increasingly stringent regulations have made energy efficiency one of the biggest issues the process industries have faced in decades,” said Harsh Chitale, vice president of global marketing and strategy for Honeywell Process Solutions. “With Energy Management Solutions, Honeywell can help manufacturers build a holistic energy management strategy that can reduce energy costs and return those savings back to the bottom line.”