This study focuses on analysing the most energy efficient utility system supply structure in terms of carbon emissions, primary energy efficiency and energy costs. In the German food processing industry, the state-of-the-art technologies in the utility supply structure are a gas fired steam boiler for steam generation and ammonia chillers for chilled water generation. Low investment costs and its durability are attractive for industrial production sites. But, given the ongoing energy transition to renewable energy, ...

Detailed energy monitoring and benchmarking at the individual component level is necessary to increase energy efficiency in complex production systems. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) provides an economical solution for operational state detection and load disaggregation without the need for large-scale use of fine-grained energy meters. Existing supervised NILM approaches require detailed training data including control information about individual devices. Unsupervised approaches, on the other hand, often ...

The food industry is a large energy consumer and most heat demands in food processing are low-temperature. The aim of this study is to develop and simulate innovative retrofits or redesigns that unlock the heat recovery potential of industrial batch sterilisation processes. The case study focuses on the whey cream process, although the method and results apply to similar batch sterilisation processes. The initial situation is compared to energy efficient designs based on “Energy Storage” and “Rescheduling”. Using a ...

Sektorkopplung bedeutet die Verbindung des Elektrizitäts- mit dem Wärme- und Mobilitätssektor. Während der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien (EE) im Strombereich erhebliche Fortschritte, bis zu einem Anteil von über 30 %, erzielt hat, ist im Wärme- (ca. 13 %) und Mobilitätssektor (ca. 5,1 %) der Anteil in den letzten zehn Jahren fast konstant geblieben. Die Elektrifizierung dieser Anwendungsbereiche soll den Anteil an erneuerbarer Energie erhöhen und somit zu einer Reduzierung von Treibhausgasen beitragen. Abbildung ...