Energy Efficiency and Productivity Optimization of Industrial Cleaning Equipment

Abstract

Advanced cleanliness requirements in production are forcing industrial companies to include new cleaning processes into their manufacturing process. Complex cleaning operation procedures can lower process productivity and at the same time are responsible for substantial parts of the overall energy consumption. An optimization of cleaning processes with respect to cleaning duration, energy consumption and efficiency can therefore contribute to cost reduction significantly. This article presents a procedure for real data based assessment of industrial cleaning equipment. Based upon the resulting information of the procedure, productivity ratios and energy consumptions can be determined up to individual cleaning components. This creates the required transparency to derive customized production and energy efficiency optimization measures.

Derivation of Measures for Energy Efficient Machine Design by Evaluating Energy Consumption Data

“…In order to reduce the energy consumption during standby (shown in figure 5) on the one hand a power reduction and on the other hand a time reduction can be applied [12,13]. Evaluating the standby energy consumption of a machine during its runtime it is necessary to differentiate between the time of machining t machining and the time of standby t standby .…”