In Taiwan, most of the energy relies on imports due to few natural resources. Further more, scientists estimate that crude oil will be depleted within 40 years. A high cost energy era has arrived. Skyrocketing oil prices have a severe negative impact on the cost structure of the Taiwan Power Company (TPC), which has an estimated deficit of NT$70 billion in 2007. TPC has faced a difficult dilemma: whether to raise the electricity rate or become bankrupt. Eventually, the government has to intervene. The Kyoto Protocol was in effect in February 2005. It is expected that the environmental convention of reducing of CO2 will become an international movement following ISO14000. With every one kilowatt hour of electricity is generated by TPC, 638g of CO2 were produced. The products of made-in-Taiwan will not received international approval and will be boycotted by the International market if the energy efficiency of national enterprise is too low.
Air compressor system, which is as important as water and electricity, is popularly used in almost all industries. However, its high energy-consumption and low efficiency system is seldom noticed. The energy cost of air compressor system is about 80% of the total operational cost which includes the electricity costs of all the machinery and lightings. How to improve air compressor efficiency plays an important role in the manufacture¡¦s production cost and its competition against other industries. Facing fierce competition and low profit, the industries must not only continuously innovate and reduce the cost to enhance competition ability for keeping market share, but also increase energy efficiency and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by the green production method meeting the environmental requirement.
The report is the summary of the interviews with many industry leaders who are involved in the air compressor production or the government officials who are in charge of energy-saving promotion. It also combines with the data of actual measurement of the compressor systems to research if the investment willingness of manufacturers is reflected by their operation cost, operation strategy, the risky consideration when facing law and the information getting of compressor energy-saving.
The results of the study are:
Clarify the main factors which influence the investment willingness to compressor energy-saving.
(A) The cost side:
The investment willingness is influenced by the cognition of the leaders of manufacturer unit or business owner to compressor system cost.
(B) The strategy side:
The investment willingness is influenced by the cognition of the leaders of manufacturer unit or business owner to the operation strategy on compressor system.
(C) The legal side:
The investment willingness is influenced by the cognition of the leaders of manufacturer unit or business owner to the legal affection to business.
(D) The information side:
The investment willingness is influenced by getting the information of energy-saving of compressor system.
Finally, the study proposes a feasible project to the industries and the government officials who promote energy saving.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0729108-175315 |
| Date | 29 July 2008 |
| Creators | Yeh, Ching-te |
| Contributors | Alex Kung-Hsiung Chang, Yu-Ping Wang, Ming-Chu Yu, Bih-Shiaw Jaw |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0729108-175315 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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