TECHNOFABRIC SPA

Sector: Textiles - Section: production of technical and industrial fabrics

Customer company requirement

Technofabric is the world's leading manufacturer of fabrics for technical and industrial uses. Today this company is the reference for innovative and customized solutions in the field of engineered fabrics and the creation of technical fabrics for industrial applications. The Costigliole Saluzzo plants (weaving, R&D and services) and Piasco (specific finishing and surface treatments) are equipped with the most modern equipment and control systems.

The main needs expressed, and verified by Albasystem, were:

reduction of energy costs.
Restructuring of the air conditioning system inside the production process including hot air, cold air and humidity control.
Realization of an intervention that does not have an impact on business management, currently flexible and efficient.
Search for an innovative and grren energy system, which could cover a major share of the energy needs of production.
Development of a flòexible system to manage production discontinuities in an automatic and intelliget way.

Project objective

The objective of the intervention was the energy saving for the company, combined with an improvement in the quality of the air within the production process. To further increase the performance of the process and of the machinery, a careful analysis of the dynamics of production connected to the energy vectors was carried out, both electrical and above all thermal, hot and cold, and then also intervened on the diffusion of air conditioning.

Interventions carried out with the installation of the Aspecindustry system:

Through the "turnkey" contract, Albasystem has completed the following activities with maximum efficiency:

Preliminary analysis and electro-thermal executive project, P&I utilities, 10-year business plan, Full-Risk maintenance contract and realization of all the plants interconnected to the energy system.

Construction of a AspecGen Car Trigenerator of 854 kWe and 379 kWe output in three soundproofed outdoor enclosures, low noise intercooler, drycooler, stainless steel exhaust, oil tanks, computerized emissions abatement system, 600 kW boiler installation and thermal storage from 5000 liters, water treatment and softening system.

Aspecindustry system complete with redundant Hot Stand-by PLC with multi-platform operator interfaces, automatic and intelligent energy management with interconnection of boilers, exchangers, refrigeration units and various utilities.

Trigeneration system with hot and cold air diffusion and humidity control, equipped with 45 very hight efficiency low temperature heaters.

Inside the cogeneration plant and in two sub-boards, the industrial plc computers containing the Aspec software were installed, which intelligently manages the whole energy system of the company, interconnected to the centralized system, in which the sensors programmed for send all information to Aspec.

BENEFITS OBTAINED

95% electricity requirement coverage.

Coverage of the heat requirement is 70% warm and 100% cold.

Improvement of air quality in the production process.

Withdrawal of white certificates from high-efficiency CHP with a fully automed system to remain in the optimal performance curve.

Aspecindustry system completely autonomous and independent, with automatic and intelligent tracking of the point of maximum efficiency of the system.

Full-Service and Full-Risk 24/7 management contract of the whole system with guaranteed performance.

Energy management Aspecindustry releases company personnel from the control of energy systems, as they are controlled directly by Albasystem within the Service contract.