Warming events tend to be more extreme, with greater shifts in temperature. The changing and more volatile climatic conditions make industrial cooling systems, chillers and heat pumps work more, consuming more electricity to deliver in particular the required cooling needs.
Energy Efficiency Hub (EEHub) is an independent service and solution provider and trusted adviser to owners and operators of industrial cooling systems, chillers and heat pumps. Over the next years Energy Efficiency Hub will be the leading provider of customized services and solutions to enable our Customers to manage the new climatic reality and the mounting environmental requirements every business is facing.
Knowing that most systems, new and existing, are not running as designed and to their full potential Energy Efficiency Hub together with our Customers can achieve substantial reductions in electricity consumption ranging from 5 – 30%. Ensuring a more optimal running of the installed base reduce electricity consumption, operating costs and enhanced life cycle management. Improved operations and earlier leak detection contribute to a reduction in emissions both CO2 (the carbon footprint) and Green House Gases (GHG) including less environmentally friendly refrigerants, containing among others fluoride.
Energy Efficiency Hub digitalizes and visualizes the information flow by turning data into information and educated decisions. We benchmark the operational performance running 24/7 thermodynamic calculations via our digital service platform, EEHub Digital. Making information visible and comparable over time for all key stakeholders leads to reduction in electricity consumption and emissions on a continuous basis.
Sectors
Data Centers
The world is being digitalized and the need for data processing and storage is rising exponentially. This leads to an exceptional growth in data centers. Data centers require a large amount of reliable 24/7 cooling and the ability to deal with fluctuations in cooling demand. Increasing restrictions on the use of ground water for cooling, the need for reduction of the carbon footprint and minimizing emissions of cooling refrigerants adding to greenhouse gases and fluoride in our environment are mission-critical for data centers. Constrains in the availability of electricity for industrial use and incentives to use electricity off-peak hours pose both an opportunity and a challenge. Optimizing the operation of chillers and cooling systems is a strong incentive to address critical environmental challenges and reduce operational costs.
The successful optimization of data centers requires both innovation and energy efficiency measures. Energy Efficiency Hub (EEHub) is offering innovative solutions to secure, verify and continuously address these challenges turning them into opportunities. Our Customers proudly showcase our solutions to their clients, highlighting their commitment to environmentally responsible and cost-effective data processing and storage while securing more business.
Fresh/Cold Chain
“A decrease in storage temperature from 8°C to 4°C translates to an extended shelf life, potentially reaching weeks for items like milk, ready meals, spreads” (International Institute of Refrigeration - March 2020). Furthermore, the whole fresh / cold chain and in particular the cold storages play a vital role starting with harvesting, storage, processing and transportation of products of great quality and in a timely manner. Each product has different cooling requirements. Harvesting 3,000 metric tons of apples with a temperature of 26°C require certain cooling to reach the optimal storage temperature of 3°C. Processing fresh meat and fish require cooling to be stored and transported either fresh, super cooled or in frozen conditions. The challenge is the same: meeting the required cooling capacity that is in particular impacted by the outside climatic conditions and quantity of products and goods that have to be moved and stored. In general, the need for cooling is increasing 3 to 5 times based on various estimates due to changing climatic conditions and an increase in the population and consumption. Energy Efficiency Hub (EEHub) is perfectly placed to support our Customers throughout the whole fresh / cold chain. Our offering enables our Customers to directly tie the operating performance and the usage of electricity and emission footprint to the flow of products and goods.
Food & Beverage
475 million metric tons of lost food could be saved thanks to refrigeration and could theoretically feed 950 million people a year according to the International Institute of Refrigeration (published March 2020). The Food and Beverage sector, a cornerstone of our existence, has been using industrial refrigeration for over 150 years to enhance our quality of life.
Most manufacturing sites have evolved over time with new cooling requirements, resulting from the addition of manufacturing and storage space and processes. The existing chillers and cooling systems have often not been optimized to meet the additional cooling requirements.
Larger companies in the Food & Beverage sector tend to operate cross-border and with multiple sites - each site having a custom designed cooling system. Energy Efficiency Hub (EEHub) enables the optimization of every cooling system site by site. For our larger multi-site and cross-border Customers, we offer a centralized management approach to ensure energy efficiency, enabled by our digital service platform EEHub Digital.
A mission critical sector saves mission critical energy.
Buildings (Industrial and Office Real Estate / Shopping Malls)
The world faces a looming “cold crunch.” Using air conditioners and electric fans to stay cool accounts for nearly 20% of the total electricity used in buildings around the world today. The International Energy Agency (IEA, 2018) is shining a spotlight on some of the blind spots of energy policy – issues that get little attention but are of crucial importance. The growth in global demand for space cooling is such a blind spot. If left unchecked, energy demand from air conditioners will more than triple by 2050, equal to China’s electricity demand today. The use of heat pumps is an increasing source of cooling and heating in larger buildings including in industrial purpose build facilities. Larger buildings are often managed and supported by in-house or external facility management resources. The tasks of the facility management tend to be many and with a wide scope. Energy Efficiency Hub (EEHub) turns data into information enabling in-house and external resources to make insightful decision and better manage the installed base of chillers, cooling systems and heat pumps. Our digital service platform, EEHub Digital, visualizes key information, parameters and alarms and provides a 24/7 state of the art overview about the energy efficiency performance. We support better planning of maintenance and predictive maintenance. We enable owners and operators to ensure a more optimal lifecycle management.
Maritime - Cruise Industry
The Maritime sector plays a vital role transporting people and essential goods. Navigating diverse climate conditions from very cold to very warm with varying humidity and the physical ship movements, possess challenging requirements to the cooling systems and heat pumps. Combined with the need for well-planned maintenance and repairs during short port stays provide the perfect challenge.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has estimated that the global CO2 emission from the Maritime sector is in the range of 2.5 – 3%. A number of decisions and activities have been undertaken to reduce emissions including mandatory measures to improve the energy efficiency. Improving energy efficiency has a double impact as ships have to carry fuel to generate cooling and heating which further adds to an increase in fuel usage by transporting additional fuel.
Cruise ships pose the most interesting challenge with their need for hotel quality cooling and comfort. Energy Efficiency Hub (EEHub) supported by our digital service platform, EEHub Digital is well placed to help the maritime sector meeting the needs for further reductions in fuel consumption.
The 24/7 real-time remote monitoring through the Service Platform enables early identification of operational issues and supports planning of maintenance and repairs requiring a port stay.
Healthcare
In the healthcare sector, the role of cooling and heat pump systems is pivotal in creating optimal climatic conditions for both patients and personnel. These systems are not only critical to deliver ambient temperatures in facilities but also in areas with stringent requirements, such as cleanrooms, operating rooms, and cold storage facilities for biopharma and other organic materials.
The Cool Coalition estimates that the healthcare sector accounts for 4.4% of global net emissions. A 30% improvement in hospital cooling efficiency could lead to a 5% reduction in the overall carbon footprint of the healthcare sector, whilst lowering operating costs. To put this into perspective, the impact is equivalent to the yearly mitigation achieved by installing 27,400 wind turbines.
Energy Efficiency Hub (EEHub) aligns with the uninterrupted, 24/7 demands of the healthcare sector. EEHub's digital real-time offerings are perfectly suited to meet these needs, ensuring efficient and sustainable solutions.
Biopharma / Pharma
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that, as a result of broken cold-chain, there are more than 1.5 million deaths globally from vaccine-preventable diseases every year - 30% of which are among children under five. WHO estimates that more than 25% of some vaccines may be wasted globally every year because of temperature control and logistics failure.
It is estimated that the cold chain (2-8°C) of the Biopharma sector is growing 7% on an annual basis. One of the key drivers is the fact that a large majority of biotech products require a cold chain. Sales of products which require a cold chain in Biopharma is approximately two (2) to one (1). Special logistics for maintaining quality of temperature for sensitive products is accounting for more than 11% of the logistics spending, estimated to be USD 16 billion (Data from the Biopharma cold chain sourcebook 2016, 2019 and 2020). Pharma has established needs and requirements in particular for cooling and heating in the manufacturing processes including clean rooms. EEHub is well placed in supporting the management and energy efficiency optimization across Biopharma and Pharma. Addressing the precise cooling and heat pump demands of this sector, we specialize in delivering cutting-edge solutions via EEHub Digital tailored to the unique requirements of our Customers helping them to reduce electricity consumption and the carbon footprint.
Industrial Applications & Processes
There is a large variety of needs and requirements for cooling and heat pumps in industrial applications and in particular within process industries. The specific cooling and heating demand varies based on the temperature-sensitive nature of materials, the scale of operations, and the technological requirements in each industry. For chemical processes it is essential to control reaction temperatures, condense gases, or maintain specific conditions for chemical transformations. The same is valid for metal processing across the value chain. In plastic production cooling and heating plays a vital role in processing, especially during molding and extrusion processes, where maintaining specific temperatures is essential for product quality and consistency. Generally, manufacturing processes such as batteries and electronics have temperature requirements that need to be met. Another example is power generation.
Leveraging our experience in our core sectors and our in-house competencies EEHub is able to work with our Customers to establish the needs and requirements to optimize energy efficiency and emission reduction. We aspire to be your strategic partner in achieving cost-effectiveness and meeting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) targets. This is realized via EEHub Digital, our digital platform, and the various offering that EEHub has to support our Customers such as EEHub Connect, EEHub Optimize, EEHub Share and EEHub Advice.
we serve industries with high cooling and heating demand
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