Cement Energy Environment

58 CASE STUDY: ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (EMS) JK White Cement Works, Gotan is the first White Cement manufacturing factory in India which manufactured White Cement through dry process technology. The Gotan plant was commissioned in 1984 with an initial production capacity of 50,000 TPA. It uses technical expertise from FLSmidth & Co. of Denmark with their State-of-the-art technology of continuous on-line quality monitoring and control About Plant by X-Ray Analyser and PLC Systems, ensuring manufacturing of purest white cement. Over the years, continuous process improvements and modifications have increased the plant’s production capacity to 6,10,000 tons per annum. Presently, the plant is operating at lowest energy levels since its inception. By Sachin Gupta (Head E&I) JK White Cement Works, Gotan Energy is an essential component in supporting of people’s daily lives and a significant economical element in development of country. For a nation to progress economically, the industrial sector has to be constantly encouraged and developed, but as the number of industrial units and industrial sectors increase, energy demand and consumption also increases. The industrial sector is the largest consumer of all the electrical energy that is commercially generated for utilization, and process industries like fertilizer, cement, sugar, textile, aluminium, paper, etc. are extremely energy intensive in nature. To reduce the increasing demand-supply gap, either more industrial energy has to be generated or the existing consumption of energy has to be brought down without any compromise on either product quality or quantity. Along with population upsurge, economic growth and living standards Introduction improvement, the demand and consumption of various energy resources is increasing worldwide. Therefore, many companies, especially energy intensive, are trying to identify the most effective measures to improve energy management in manufacturing processes and to integrate new energy management systems in production management and as a result to improve overall economic efficiency. Energy management system has become an important issue when many utilities around the world find it very difficult to meet energy demands which have led to load shedding and power quality problems. An efficient energy management in residential, commercial and industrial sector can reduce the energy requirements and thus lead to savings in the cost of energy consumed which also has positive impact on environment.