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Energy Management and Energy Crisis in Textile Finishing

American Journal of Energy Research, 2014

Textile industry is indeed one of the major energy consumers. Therefore, approaches introducing reduced energy processing of textiles in association with the standard energy management practices would be in obvious demand. Energy management standard is particularly desired for energy-intensive industrial sectors. Textile finishing organizations significantly depends upon the continual energy supply from fiber production to finished fabric. Textile processing areas that heavily consume water and electricity can be significantly improved in terms of reduced energy utilization and minimum energy loses through exercising improved housekeeping and standard management practices. It was perceived that ISO 50001 standard will provide management guideline and approaches to the textile sector organizations leading to an increased efficiency, reduced cost through less energy consumption, and improved energy performance. Any scientific information and data on hot air, heat, steam and processed water recycling available in literature would indeed be beneficial to enhance textile processing and finishing industry in the utilization of energy management policy, performance and efficiency measures, physical structure. The important factors that would be influenced by the energy management standard in textile finishing, ranging over fiber processing, pre-treatments, dyeing, printing, and special effects, are identified for improvement and discussed in this paper.

Energy conservation in the textile industry

1976

Issued as Phase I report, Quarterly progress reports [1-7], Executive summary, Interim report, Monthly reports [1-11], Foreign travel report, and Final reports [1-3], Project no. A-1853 (includes subprojects E-27-642 and E-27-672, School of Textile Engineering)

Potential of Waste Heat Recovery in Textile

2013

Many developing countries, including India, look forward to developing strong integrated textile industries to add value to already-available raw materials. Textile industry is one of the largest industries, which consumes energy in the form of heat. Dyeing and finishing activities are, however, energy-intensive. In many cases, these depend on imported fossil fuels. By turning to heat recovery, significant cost savings can be achieved improving profitability and competitiveness. New technologies are required to recover some percentage of loss of energy. The techniques and technologies of heat recovery from boiler blow down, condensate and waste water are analyzed. Waste heat utilization in the textile industry is gaining vital importance in the Indian textile industry as international legislations are also to come into force in our country. This paper focuses on potential of heat recovery has brought significant cost reduction in textile dyeing and processes. The focus is on steam u...

A Review on Energy Management in Textile Industry

Innovative Energy & Research, 2017

In textile mill, electricity consumption is in increasing trend, due to modernized machines and continuous usage of the equipment's in inefficient operating parameters. Textile sector may be considered as one of the largest industrial sector in India and at the same time it is also one of the oldest sectors in the country. Even after a lot of technological development globally, most of the mills are using the same old technology. The energy cost is around 15%-20% over the production cost and it stands next to raw material cost. Hence now a day's area of focus is towards energy consumption at load end and by optimizing the efficiency of the motor. Although for the last few years process of modernization in textile industries are underway but still the pace is slow. So, in order to include major players of textile sector as well as other energy intensive industries for energy efficiency movement. In this paper, influence of various areas of energy consumption and process of optimisation in textile mill on energy conservation is discussed with practical data.

Energy Efficiency in Textile Industry for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

2020

In this study, research was carried out on how to prevent unnecessary energy in the textile sector, and solutions were presented in this context, identifying the main problems. The textile industry is one of the most beautiful examples in the globalized world. A product is not manufactured in a plant from start to finish, but instead, it is customized to be small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for one task. Energy efficiency is especially important for SMEs to compete with businesses in Asian countries in the market. The purpose of examining the energy sources used in this study under the headings of electricity and thermal energy was to prepare a more detailed report and create a resource that could be used in the sector. As a result of our study, energy savings of up to 60% can be saved by changing most machines and working methods used in the sector with simple customizations or new ones that can be made in machines because of the lack of old or working methods designed to m...

Waste-heat utilization – The sustainable technologies to minimize energy consumption in Bangladesh textile sector

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017

Waste-heat utilization holds great potential for cleaner production by improving energy efficiency, reducing energy usage and enhancing engineering functionality of an industry. Utilization of waste-heat is highly neglected in textile industries of the developing countries. This study quantified the energy and cost saving potential of waste-heat utilization in textile industries with several case studies. It focused on the common waste-heat sources and readily implementable technologies considering both technical and economic aspects. A waste-heat recovery boiler with a capacity of 2.70 t/h ran by hot exhaust from onsite electricity generators was estimated to save annually 15,094 MWh of energy and energy cost of USD 141,280. Installing economizer reduced 4.9% of boiler fuel consumption. Approximately 10% of energy used in stenter-setting machines was saved by installing a heat-exchanger that extracted waste-heat of stenter exhaust to preheat fresh air supplied to stenter operations. A

Energy Conservation Opportunities & GHG Reductions in Textile Cluster

2017

In this study Energy Audits have been done for a cluster of Textile Industries and its outcomes are discussed. The adopted approach & methodology for this study is based on the guidelines of BEE and also scientific approach related to technological, environmental and pollution related aspects. It has been found that energy audit is an important management tool provided Auditor & industry actively & positively participate in Audit exercise. It will not only improve energy performance of industry but also leads to cost as well as GHG reductions. In the study efficiencies of Boiler were evaluated and set of recommendations were suggested to improve the existing Boiler Efficiency. The implementations of suggestions would result in improvement of efficiency in the range of 10 to 17% with monetary benefits in the range of 15 to 42 Lakh per Annum with payback period of less than one year.

Efficient use of water in the textile finishing industry

Identification and exploitation of non-conventional water sources is a priority for many industrial sectors, especially for the textile finishing industry. Therefore a multicriteria integrated and coherent methodology to support the implementation of sustainable water reuse is essential. The methodology conceived within the EU project TOWEF0 (TOWards EFfluent zero) is presented in this paper, together with the tools to carry out all the steps required by its application. A process data collection for technical/economical evaluation in textile companies was performed and integrated with a characterisation of the process effluents in terms of treatability and reusability. Feasibility evaluations of effluents treatment for reuse were performed and reuse tests in textile processes were carried out. These information allowed for the design of optimised water reuse schemes by Water Pinch application, whereas the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) permitted the evaluation and comparison of water ...