ELAH-DUFOUR SPA

Sector: Confectionery - Section: production of confectionery and chocolate products

Customer company requirement

Elah-Dufour Spa The Elah Dufour Novi Group is a historic Piedmont confectionery food company, a market leader in the premium product range. It produces, using local raw materials, hazelnuts from the Langhe and cocoa of the highest quality, with the aim of always offering exclusively the highest quality standards.

Express needs:

reduce energy costs.
Perform an intevention with innovative technologies able to last over time.
Flexibility aimed at supporting the future development of the company.
Realization of an autonomous system that does not take away precious time from those involved in production and product quality.

Project objective

After carefully analyzing the production process of the company, which uses a large amount of electricity and hot water, Albasystem proposes the installation of a 1400 kW electric cogeneration unit, located outside the plat in a soundproof container, complete field installation of probes and sensors connected to the Aspecindustry integrated control system to manage, in real time, on the basis of user-defined settings, the generation of electrothermal energy in the correct quantity, in order to maintain a constant self-production situation and total self-consumption.

Interventions carried out with the installation of the Aspecindustry system:

"Turnkey" contract including:

drafting of the (preliminary and executive) electrothermal and energy automation project, able to achieve the objectives and performance envisaged in the business plan phase and to respect the return time of the investment calculated in less than three years.

Complete construction of the customized cogenerator in soundproofed container made up of an American Cummins engine with an electric power of 1400 kW, alternator, heatsink, chimney with fume elimination and NOx with urea, totally silent, electrical and hydraulic systems.

Writing of Aspecindustry customized management software and its commissioning.

Management of the whole bureaucratic process of requesting environmental permits.

Service assistance plan for engine, management and future bureaucracy, contant monitoring of system performance remotely.

BENEFITS OBTAINED

Electricity requirement coverage 80% approx. Coverage of the heat requirement (hot water) 55% approx.

Total energy saving of primary consumption of electricity and hot water for the production process.

Very competitive cost of the system, thanks to integrated and total internal vertical construction of the entire cogeneration system.

High level of engine and component performance, chosen to guarantee the highest quality and durability of the entire cogeneration group.

Flexible and open system, always implementable and perfectly integrable with renewable energy systems such as photovoltaic or biomass but also with energy accumulators (specifically with rotating mass technology).

Intelligent and automated management of use and control of the cogenerator and of the enitire system.

Possibility to use Aspecindustry in automatic mode, and therefore autonomous, but also in manual and semiautomatic mode, even remotely.

Release, by service contract, from all the costs of management system maintenance and alarm 24/7.

Total respect of emissions even more restrictive as those of the Piedmont region.

High efficiency CAR cogenerator with consequent withdrawal of the white certificates managed by Albasystem on behalf of the customer, thus obtaining the maximum economic advantage.