White Paper n°2: From energy performance to environmental performance
Energy performance is now a prerequisite. It is high time to go further and talk about environmental performance.
This is the subject of our new White Paper entitled:
“From Energy Performance to Environmental Performance”
We provide you with all the steps to follow and the necessary tools to succeed in your environmental performance.
The drafting of this White Paper was made possible thanks to the Dametis experts
Julian Aristizabal
Co-founder, CEO
Gregory Pain
International Business Developer
Guillaume Lecore
Director of Services
and to other experts in environmental efficiency:
Mathias Welschbillig
Expert in the field of environmental issues
Olivier Barrault
President of ATEE Grand Ouest & CEO of Elodys International
Table of Contents
II. And to go further, Dametis offers environmental management, not just energy management
> Chapter 2 – Water Management
I. Water is a precious resource for companies
II. Water management or Cleaning in Place (CIP)
III. Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)
> Chapter 3 – Material Management
Chapter 1: Energy Management
I. What is energy management?
• Energy management, an essential implementation
Energy is invisible, omnipresent, and essential to a company. Electricity, gas, fuel oil, and coal are primary energy carriers; compressed air, steam, hot water, cold water, chilled water, and any cooling liquid are secondary carriers.
In a factory, energy, through these primary and/or secondary carriers, allows the transformation from one carrier to another and the transformations related to processes. Energy management is simply the ability to manage this energy.
Thus, Toshiba trusted Dametis to improve its energy consumption at its Dieppe site.
• Energy efficiency: a goal and an asset to achieve for the climate and consumers
Energy represents between 1 and 5% of companies’ expenses. The impact is secondary. However, it is a crucial issue. “The subject of energy has become a priority for consumers due to the environmental challenge,” reminds Julian Aristizabal, CEO and founder of the start-up Dametis.
The Energy Transition Agency also emphasizes that energy performance is “a key element of tomorrow’s industry performance.”
Certainly, solutions exist to address energy consumption. On the one hand, there are green energies and, on the other hand, the carbon offset market which is reflected, for example, in low-carbon labels such as the Verified Carbon Standard or the Gold Standard. However, green energies do not yet have enough production capacity. Furthermore, there are not enough projects to offset carbon emissions. “The National Low-Carbon Strategy (SNBC) foresees a compensation of around 100 MTCO2 eq/year in 2050 in French territory. Today, we emit approximately 430 MTCO2 eq/year in France.”
• Energy management, an essential implementation
These are individually compared to similar and optimized blocks. This allows to identify where improvements can be made. Dametis’ clients have achieved energy savings of 5 to 20%, on average. Ouest France, in a March 2021 article titled “Dametis reconciles industry and ecology”, mentions a company that reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 62%.
Optimizing the use of energy is a crucial step for a company. However, Dametis offers more advanced possibilities with environmental management.
II. To go beyond energy performance in industry, Dametis offers environmental performance management
• Energy management facing its limits
The role of companies is significant. In 2019, industry accounted for 19% of CO2 emissions worldwide and 13% in France. That same year was described by L’Express as the “year of climate awareness.” Indeed, climate change has become a crucial issue for 94% of French people and a top priority for 47% of them, according to a survey conducted by Ipsos for Le Parisien in 2022.
• Imagine the factory of tomorrow
• The energy mix or the consumption of environmentally friendly energy
“Today, the French energy mix still depends on fossil fuels for over 60% of its composition. To achieve its climate goals, France must decarbonize its mix and replace fossil sources with electricity,” notes the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
There are several renewable energies:
– **Solar thermal** produces heat from solar radiation. This energy is “still relatively unknown in the industrial sector,” as highlighted by the Agency for Ecological Transition. “Yet, it is a renewable heat solution suitable for integration into a variety of heat-consuming processes. About 30% of the industry’s heat needs involve temperatures below 140°C and can be addressed by solar thermal.”
– **Photovoltaics** is the conversion of solar energy into electrical energy. This energy has been rapidly expanding in France since 2009, reaching a production of 13.6 TWh in 2014. This growth is expected to continue due to the competitiveness of this renewable energy source.
– **Biomass** is energy produced by the heat generated from the combustion of organic matter, such as wood, plants, agricultural or organic waste. Biomass is “the main source of renewable energy in France,” as highlighted by the Ministry of Ecological Transition. “It accounts for over 55% of final energy production and significantly contributes to reducing our consumption of fossil fuels.”
– **Methanization** is a process that allows the production of biogas and digestate from organic materials, such as food waste or industrial waste. Biogas can be turned into biomethane, while digestate can be used as a fertilizer. Producing biomethane offers numerous environmental and local benefits. Methanization also plays a role in waste management, including treating food waste, urban sewage sludge, and some industrial effluents.
– **Green hydrogen**: Green hydrogen is hydrogen produced from a renewable energy source. Engie sees it as “one of the future levers to accelerate the transition to carbon neutrality.” In October 2021, Les Échos reported that “green hydrogen is poised to become a leading alternative energy source.”
• Energy management facing its limits
Knowing about green energies is one thing. Another is knowing which ones to use, how, in what mix, and understanding how this fits into an industrial energy performance objective.
For this, Dametis has several steps during its intervention:
1. Understanding how the factory operates. Dametis collects data from the factory and defines an ideal factory with the lowest achievable environmental impact. “This includes an objective of maintaining performance levels over time and reducing consumption,” points out Julian Aristizabal. “At the same time, we are electrifying processes because it is easier to decarbonize electricity than gas.”
2. Presenting the action plan to the industrialist. “It is the industrialist who chooses where to focus our intervention,” explains Dametis’ CEO.
3. The energy mix. “It is easier to decarbonize an optimized consumption,” says Julian Aristizabal. This mix comes into play after the step aimed at achieving the minimum environmental impact and is proposed based on the site. Thus, “we will more easily propose a mix including methanization for a food processing company because it has organic waste. If a company is located in an area with abundant wood resources, we will propose a wood biomass heating system,” he explains.
Each factory is unique. The solution, specified and developed by Dametis’ experts, is tailored to each industrial site.
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