Author : Nitin G. Patil, Varsha Karandikar and Suvarna Mane

Now a days industries are looking for higher quality of products with reasonable cost and customer satisfaction. Customer wants high quality of products with minimum cost. To achieve good quality of products with reasonable cost, cost of production has to be optimized. Eliminating various wastages in the industry is one of the measures to optimize. This paper relates to reduce energy wastages in a paperboard manufacturing industry. The aim of this paper is to reduce the cost of production of steam by arresting various energy wastages in the industry. It was found that total 20% of saving has been achieved by identifying and eliminating these wastages.

Keywords: Energy wastages, Steam pressure, Steam Traps, Temperature, Cost optimization, Productivity improvement

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.10, No.4 (July/Aug 2020)