Greater production and lower emissions – Umicore on the way to net zero
The Umicore team at the Jiangmen plant prepared a zero-emission strategy with the audit company, which did not meet its expectations. Umicore asked us, and our engineering team developed a specific path to reduce emissions by 70% within 4 months. Although in our latest projects we focus mainly on designing and implementing energy-saving investments, in this case we used our competencies primarily in consulting activities. The client has already started implementing the strategy we developed and, among others, reduced steam consumption in his plant by 50%.
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Installation of a steam turbine for the production of electricity
In many plants, including in the chemical industry, process heat is generated with the use of steam boilers. Parameters of process steam, upon leaving the boiler, are often adapted to the requirements of the process at the reducing and cooling station. This situation provides an opportunity to assess whether the replacement of reduction and cooling station with the steam turbine equipped with the generator will eliminate the energy losses resulting from the reduction of the parameters of steam, which passes through the reduction station.
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