Impact of an Energy Monitoring System on the Energy Efficiency of an Automobile Factory: A Case Study

Tehseen Akhtar, Asif Ur Rehman, Mohsin Jamil and Syed Omer Gilani
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Tehseen Akhtar: Department of Robotics and AI, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Sector H-12, Main Campus, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Asif Ur Rehman: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 240 Prince Phillip Drive, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Canada
Mohsin Jamil: Department of Robotics and AI, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Sector H-12, Main Campus, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Syed Omer Gilani: Department of Robotics and AI, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Sector H-12, Main Campus, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-20

Abstract: Energy-saving strategies cannot be implemented without having detailed and regular power consumption data of a facility. The installation of an energy monitoring and data logging system can help in planning energy efficiency improvement policies by providing daily, monthly, and yearly energy consumption reports and graphs. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the impact of an energy monitoring and management system on the improvement of energy efficiency in the industrial sector of developing countries. This study introduced an energy monitoring and data logging system installed in an automobile factory in Pakistan. Energy consumption data, which also included power quality data, were collected with the help of energy analyzers and transmitted to a centralized supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software for data logging and monitoring purposes. This system was developed by combining Modbus with industrial Ethernet to communicate real-time energy consumption data of the factory to multiple local and remote locations. Monitoring and logging the real-time energy consumption data helped the user to find the significant energy losses inside the factory and to implement various energy conservation policies inside the facility, resulting in energy efficiency improvement. The energy consumption results indicate that the proposed system can help achieve an approximately 8% improvement in energy efficiency.

Keywords: energy monitoring; energy management; energy efficiency; power analysis; energy sector in developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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