Scope for Energy Conservation in SRTL Textile Industry

The Textile Industry in India is one of the largest and oldest process industries in terms of number of plants. With an increase in competition and the removal of quota system, most of the Textile process houses were forced to look at cost reduction to survive. In any industry, the three top operating expenses are often found to be energy (both electrical and thermal), labors and materials. If one were to relate to the manageability of the cost or potential cost savings in each of the above components, energy would invariably emerge as a top ranker, and thus energy management function constitutes a strategic area for cost reduction. This paper presents, the thermal energy auditing conducted in SRTL textile industry, in which boiler was tested by direct and indirect method to find the losses and efficiency which help to minimize the energy consumption. To study cooling tower performance and identifying of energy conservation opportunities & propose possible application of renewable energy sources were another major objective of this study. Boiler was tested by IS 8753 in which efficiency found by direct method was 81.98 % and by indirect method was 82.78 %. Loss due to moisture in fuel and heating surface were found 4.87 % and 5.40 % respectively