Improving Energy Performance: A case study in Islamic company (Tulkarem)
Date
2020-11-18
Authors
Sanad Kamal Kamel Jaradat
سند كمال كامل جردات
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Publisher
Al-Quds University
Abstract
The energy sector in Palestine suffers from the lack of electricity supplied to us by the
Israeli occupation. Where the Israeli occupation controls the amount of energy received.
So the industrial sector is also suffering.
Tulkarm suffers greatly from electrical power. Where the electrical energy supplied to the
city was determined by the Israeli occupation. Therefore, Tulkarm municipality
compensated for the shortage in the amount of electricity by adding fuel-powered
generators near the city streets.
Tulkarm is one of the regions with great humidity and high temperature. Therefore,
energy is consumed greatly during the summer period (May - October).
The study for this project aims to reduce energy consumption in the Islamic plant located
in Tulkarm. Where the study is conducted to develop a strategic plan concerned with
reducing the energy consumed in the plant while maintaining the same efficiency and
production quality.
The cost of electric energy consumption is reduced by finding the most consuming
sources of electrical energy in the factory, and from these sources: working to improve the
power factor, improving boilers, and improving the compressor's work. Improving lighting
in the factory . There are also other sources, but we are content to study the most energyconsuming
sources.
It was found through the study that there is a possibility to reduce the electrical energy
costs in the plant by increasing the working efficiency of the lighting system by 81,090
kilowatt hours. Improving the efficiency of the boiler by heating the air entering the boiler
to improve the efficiency of the boiler by 1%, or by controlling the amount of air entering
the boiler to increase the efficiency of the boiler by 0.6%, or by doing a chemical treatment
of the boiler every six months to increase the efficiency by 6%. Improving the work of the
air pump by heating the incoming air as the air heating process reduces the amount of
energy by 3.8 kilowatt hours. Improving the power factor in the factory, where the initial
value was 0.77, to be raised after the proposal to put a capacitor to 0.92. Consequently, no
penalty is imposed on the bill in the sense of reducing the annual bill value as a result of
eliminating the financial penalty resulting from the decrease in the power factor.