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 | | DALKIA AND RHODIA CLEAN UP WITH ENERGY SAVINGS | | | Dalkia | | 22/08/2008 | | | Market leading Energy Services and Facilities Management Company Dalkia has formed a new agreement with global speciality chemicals company Rhodia to provide energy management to its Leeds site, continuing a partnership first established over 24 years ago.
Dalkia will design and install new burners and a duplex water softening system to serve the steam plant vital for Rhodia’s production. The contract also encompasses fuel supply, and the management of feed water treatment and the high and low pressure steam raising plants, enabling cost control, ensuring availability of utilities and maximising energy efficiency. In order to ensure high service levels and support production, the service is continually monitored and measured against KPIs. The new components of this contract build on the long-term development of the plant by Dalkia, over the 24 year history of the company’s relationship with Rhodia.
This long-standing contract has seen an extended process of upgrading taking place at the Leeds site, beginning when Dalkia initially replaced the plant’s heavy oil boiler with what at the time was a much more economical coal-fired boiler. As the contract progressed, a gas and oil-burning boiler superseded the coal plant, and in turn was replaced by a more environmentally sound high-pressure gas boiler. This equipment has remained in operation until this most recent contract extension, and will now benefit from more efficient electrically controlled burners.
The plant manufactures surfactants, ingredients that provide washing ‘power’ by combining with dirt and enabling it to be removed by water. As well as applications in shampoos and shower gels, surfactants are used in anti-static agents, computer components, and safety equipment and to increase production rates in oil wells. Rhodia also manufactures biocides to remove bacteria from swimming pools at its Leeds site.
Rhodia has committed to sustainable development, and “is convinced that its activities and future cannot be disassociated from its responsibilities toward all its stakeholders.” One of the major steps towards fulfilling these responsibilities for environmentally aware companies is to ensure that their production facilities are running as efficiently as possibly, as Dalkia’s Energy Services Director, Mike Sewell explains:
“Ensuring that a site’s plant is running to optimum efficiency makes sense from a financial and an ecological point of view. Reducing the amount of energy consumed and therefore the emissions from the plant are of the utmost importance. Our aim at Dalkia is to establish this efficiency for our customers, letting them focus on the production elements of their plants.” | |
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