Energy Efficiency Improvement through Innovative & In-House Energy Saving Schemes in NRL Co-Generation Plant

Abstract

Bhagaban Chandra Haloi, Sirajul Mannan Rajbi, Amarnath Hazarika, Dinesh Brahma

Energy conservation has emerged as one of the major issues in the recent years due to the increasing gap between the ever rising demand & the limited supply of energy. Energy requirement in our country is increasing in a very rapid rate. Conservation and efficient utilization of energy resources is the first and most important step towards narrowing down this gap. The more energy we save today, the more is left for our children tomorrow! Energy is the main driving force of economic growth of a country. Tomorrow’s economic growth depends upon today’s efficient & effective use of energy. Hence, energy conservation & the practical application & creating awareness of energy efficient methods are very much essential for the sustenance & development of a modern economy of the country. Keeping in view the importance of the energy efficiency & conservation, following innovative schemes have been developed in the Power and Utility Department of NRL, which are completely indigenous and in-house. They are developed during trouble shooting of the plant related problems. Also those areas of the plants are identified which has the potential for good amount of energy recovery, which otherwise would have been a loss. Apart from the successful solutions to the problems, they have resulted in the process optimization and hence improving the Energy Efficiency. In this paper, following schemes have been described, which together leads to a monetary savings of approx. 22.51crore rupees per annum.

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