Automation Fair 2011
Energy & Environmental Industry Forum
Wednesday, November 16 • 9:00AM to 11:30AM • Room W192AB
In today's business climate, you are confronted by a myriad of challenges linked to energy and environmental issues. You need to find ways to manufacture your goods using fewer natural resources while improving your efficient use of water, compressed air, all types of gas, electricity and steam. At the same time, you need to produce minimal amounts of waste and reduce your emissions while eliminating negative impacts on future production capabilities. During this forum, leading companies and industry experts will demonstrate how they manage these challenges and use information solutions and automation to achieve a competitive advantage.
You Will Learn
- Your peers will provide real-life examples of how they are reacting to industry issues and the business drivers that influence their energy and environmental strategies, and how they're meeting these challenges
Who Should Attend?
The Energy Forum is designed for all levels of management and engineering that have an interest insustainable production, including, but not limited to:- Manufacturing directors
- Energy and sustainability managers
- Plant managers
- Engineering, maintenance and operations
- Engineering and operations managers
- Operational/production managers
Agenda
- How a Carbon Reduction Initiative Can Deliver Energy Savings
and Productivity Improvements
Evan Hand | Director of Engineering for ConAgra Foods with responsibility for Electrical, Instrumentation and Controls
In today's manufacturing environment, it's important to deliver effective projects that reduce a producer's carbon footprint but in an affordable way. Furthermore, when carbon footprint reduction initiatives bring improvements to your processing efficiencies, they offer increased and additional value. Mr. Hand will discuss the process ConAgra Foods is using to implement energy savings initiatives in their Consumer Foods processing facilities. Their approach integrates subject matter expertise in Plant Utilities, Processes, and Operations to discover and deliver savings opportunities in these areas. Mr. Hand will present the goals of the initiative, the method of assessment and the results of the findings as well as the projects that have been implemented. The ConAgra Foods multi-plant assessments and subsequent projects have provided energy savings and productivity improvements with significant payback.
- The New Case for Natural Gas Fired Combined Heat and Power
Steve Poniatowicz | Executive Vice President, Project Execution and Compliance, Energenic
Advances in diagnostic, monitoring and control systems along with robust quantities of natural gas provide a foundation for the reemergence of CHP. The presentation will look at the new forecasts of natural gas quantities available in the United States and what that means to the availability of this once price volatile fuel. Qualities of new CHP systems relating to their thermal efficiencies and environmental impacts relative to existing central plant technology will also be explored. The current state of monitoring and controls for these systems allows users to ascertain real time economic impacts. Lastly, benefits of CHP systems and examples of real world installations will provide attendees the actual savings that can be gained from using CHP.
- Managing Energy Use Campus-wide By Turning Data Into
Actionable Information
George R. Paterson | Utilities Systems Specialist, University of Iowa
The University of Iowa operates its own power and chilled water plants and spends $30M a year on purchased energy. It has established year 2020 goals of using 40 percent renewable energy with no net increase in energy consumption despite campus growth of 250,000 gross square foot per year. This presentation will look at how the university takes more than 100,000 points of live data from the real-time metering of steam, chilled water and electrical, as well as automated plant and building controls information, and turns that data into actionable information to help optimize its use of energy campus-wide. It will explore the university's challenge of bringing together data from many diverse sources into one platform to meet its goals for visualization and analysis of the data, providing meaningful context and to present results via the internet.