MAINA PANETTONI SPA

Sector: Confectionary - Section: production of bakery products, panettone and doves.

Customer company requirement

Among the first Italian leaders of the confectionery industry, specializing in bakery products such as Christmas panettone and Easter doves, as well as other sector references, Maina S.p.a. has requested the intervention of Albasystem to achieve a significant reduction in energy costs and to reduce CO₂ emissions.

The main needs expressed, and verified by Albasystem were:

reduction of production management costs.
optimization of the processes of use of electrothermal energy, water and steam in order to reduce costs while maximizing yield.
guarantee of energy continuity especially for the steam part given by the simultaneous presence of a gas-fired cogenerator and gas-fired boilers that integrated with Aspecindustry.

Project objective

The preliminary analysis made it possible to validate the Aspecindustry system for the integration of new and old thermal generation systems in a 24/24h environment, 7/7 days. The self-production of entirely self-consumed electric power and the reorganization of heat generation sources allows a substantial reduction in total energy costs and emissions.

Interventions carried out with the installation of the Aspecindustry system:

Analysis of the production process for the identification of situations in which to perform the conversion of steam systems in water systems.

Implementation of an automatic and intelligent management system for all energy processes in real time.

Optimization of management and use of energy on a seasonal basis, creating a flexible system able to automatically and intelligently follow the oscillating curve of energy demands, always guaranteeing continuity and maximum efficiency.

These interventions have been made possible:

dismantling part of the old steam boilers in favor of new smaller and more efficient boilers placed in parallel to a special cogenerator with own steam production.

positioning the Aspecindustry control panel inside the existing control unit, togeter with the probes, pumps and actuators necessary for the automatic management of the energy demand of the production process in real time, with the heat sink positioned on the outside of the control unit.

plant executed entirely within the existing thermal power plant with the optimization of the space and creation of supporting metal infrastructures without the execution of masonry works and without downtime.

BENEFITS OBTAINED

Electricity requirement coverage 65%. Coverage of heat requirement 27%.

Great total energy savings in economic terms compared to a traditional system.

Greater control of production energy costs.

Integration of the Aspecindustry system with the existing generator sets to achieve total continuity.

Independent, local or remote control system.

Automatic and intelligent management of the system.

Labor force savings for the control of the thermal power plant and the production process.

Stable and tested system with back-up guarantee given by the boilers for the thermal part, from the network and from the generators for the electrical part.

Open Industry 4.0 system able to dialogue with other systems and automatic processes for information transfer and automatic machine control.

Withdrawal of the white certificates given by the high efficiency CAR cogenerator with automatic heat loss control.

Total respect of emissionns Piedomont Region.

Access to the Piedmont Energy POR.