Explorative study on Compressed Air Systems’ energy efficiency in production and use: First steps towards the creation of a benchmarking system for large and energy-intensive industrial firms

Miriam Benedetti, Francesca Bonfa', Ilaria Bertini, Vito Introna and Stefano Ubertini

Applied Energy, 2018, vol. 227, issue C, 436-448

Abstract: Compressed Air Systems (CAS) are one of the most common and energy intensive utilities in industry, representing up to 10% of the industrial energy needs. Thus, they can be considered as one of the main target systems while planning energy efficiency actions implementation in industry. Nevertheless, most of the available benchmarks of energy consumption are based on nominal data, thus referring to the quality of the design, while benchmarks based on measurements under actual operating conditions are not yet available.

Keywords: Energy efficiency; Compressed Air Systems; Directive 2012/27/EU; Energy benchmarking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.07.100

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