The Process Industries—The Potential for Increasing Energy Efficiency Through Innovation

Abstract

Innovative measures to improve the energy efficiency of industrial processes are being stimulated by the Energy Efficiency Demonstration Scheme of the Energy Efficiency Office. Nearly 200 projects relevant to the process industries have already been mounted covering a whole range of energy-saving technologies. Replications of the demonstrations now total nearly 500, with energy savings reaching ½ million tonnes of coal equivalent per year. Provided the lessons of the failures as well as the successes are learnt, then when the complete programme of over 300 projects has been promoted in collaboration with the equipment supply industries, savings of 7 million tonnes of coal equivalent per year should be achieved, worth £½ billion per year to the process industries.