<p>The wallpaper company Duro Sweden AB, one of the most important Scandinavian</p><p>wallpaper manufacturers, wants to decrease its energy use and costs and make its</p><p>production more environmentally friendly. It implies changes in the key process energy</p><p>use whom consists mainly by drying process using heat production from oil.</p><p>The purpose of this project, studied by the consulting company Sweco Theorells AB,</p><p>is to determine the feasibility of a change in the energy utilisation implemented to the</p><p>most representative process to propose future solutions’ basis on the future energy</p><p>question.</p><p>The company use mainly two kind of energy, electricity with 1055MWh per year and</p><p>oil with 1985MWh per year. The oil power consumption and cost represent respectively</p><p>65% and 73% of the global part.</p><p>Several proposed changes with better energy efficiency are presented : use of district</p><p>heating as a heat source, Infrared Drying, combination, etc; but due to the important</p><p>rebate make by the Swedish government on the oil price, they are not currently viable to</p><p>achieve.</p><p>But the constant rise of the oil price could be sooner a strong incentive to make these</p><p>improvals, strongly environmentaly friendly and power consumption reducer,</p><p>economicaly viable in the long term.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hig-754 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Gil, Arnaud, Raffier, Alex |
| Publisher | University of Gävle, Department of Technology and Built Environment, University of Gävle, Department of Technology and Built Environment |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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