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Issue - 2 September 2008 Project in the News Indian Express July 12th, 2008 Con nA Quarterly Newsletter of the Project - T EEnergy Conservation in Small Sector Tea Processing Units in South India ea EDITORIAL Mr. R.D. Nazeem, I.A.S., Executive Director, Tea Board Dinakaran National Project Director of the Project August 31st, 2008 Welcome back to the second issue of replacing fuel-wood with agricultural information on the project and it has EnConTea. The past three months residue, high calorific value briquettes been planned to add useful resources Did you know ? Announcements have been very eventful and fruitful. can reduce the cost of tea processing (such as articles on energy efficiency) The project has continued to assess by up to Rs.1/kg. However, challenges that can benefit the industry. I invite you Call for Innovators various strategies to bring about exist in ensuring the regular supply of to visit the site and provide your inputs. ÜTea estates in the South, Implementation of energy energy conservation in tea factories. good quality briquettes considering Have you used or are you numbering about 1.2 lakhs, emit efficiency interventions the diverse demands on agricultural Building a reputation for good quality aware of an innovative idea 7.5 lakh tonnes of carbon di-oxide The primary activity undertaken by the residues. The project has collected and environmentally responsible to improve the energy every year [Source - The HINDU, In response to the findings and project during the past three months information on briquette suppliers in production will ensure that the Indian efficiency in tea factories? Sept 9th, 2008] recommendations of the detailed has been the completion of the surrounding regions of Tea Industry will be a model for others to Share it with us and it could energy audits, the project will preliminary energy audits in bought Mettupalayam, and shared this emulate. This project will continue to Ü be featured in the issue of Estimates of domestic tea commence the implementation of leaf and estate factories in Nilgiris information with tea factories. A work towards promoting energy EnConTea comsumption in 2008 is said to be recommendations in few of the tea district and the initiation of detailed laboratory, where buyers can get the conscious practices and hence bring in 802 million kgs, where the per factories. The implementation will be energy audits. The preliminary energy quality of the briquettes and fuel-wood an environmentally responsible image capita consumption would be 701 carried out in partnership with an audits show that there is a huge scope assessed is also being set up. to the tea industry. The response of the grams per head [Source - The ESCO (Energy Service Company) for improvement of energy efficiency industry to the project has been Tea Board] who will be able to guarantee the in tea factories. The audits reveal that Alongside these initiatives, the project extremely encouraging. We welcome Ü energy and fiscal savings resulting 1.45 kg of wood and 0.53 kWh of work is also focusing on your suggestions, comments, and According to the Forest Survey of from adoption of recommendations of electricity are used to produce one kg mainstreaming renewable energy use criticisms and look forward to your India (FSI) report 2005, the forest the audits. The project has already 2 Editorial Team of made tea. Considering these in the tea industry. The project is continued support. cover in Tamilnadu is 23,044 km completed an assessment of suppliers consumption levels as benchmarks of assessing the performance of solar air which is 17.72 % of the of critical equipments (such as motors) energy consumption in tea factories in heating systems that are found in a geographic area. [Source - The and would be sourcing them from Chief Editor the Nilgiris, the project will initially few factories. We shall be initiating Forest Survey of India] reputed firms. The implementation Mr. R.D. Nazeem, I.A.S., assist factories that are using thermal more of such activities in the coming activities are expected to commence Executive Director and electrical resources in excess of months. The project has also in October 2008. Tea Board, Coonoor this benchmark to achieve reductions undertaken assessments of wood using cost effective measures. This consumption patterns in tea factories. INSIDEINSIDE Energy audits in tea factories will mainly be done through detailed It is seen that most factories lack a energy audits that will give specific covered space for storing fuel-wood. Assistant Editors The project will continue to conduct suggestions for reductions in both Open storage of fuel-wood results in 2 Viewpoint detailed energy audits in tea factories. Mr. Ashwini Kumar B.J., TIDE electrical and thermal energy high moisture levels in the wood, and Mr Maheshwari The project has received requisition consumption. In partnership with consequently, lower energy efficiency. Ms. Chitra Narayanswamy, TIDE from factories, and will conduct the recognized energy auditors, detailed Drying sheds limit the amount of Energy Efficient Motors audits for electrical and thermal energy audits have been customized moisture absorbed by wood and also 3 by Narayan Sharma energy use with the assistance of to evaluate energy consumption in allow the wood to dry, thus enabling certified energy auditors and ESCOs. individual tea factories and to offer the realization of the actual calorific Energy consumption in tea solutions to improve energy efficiency. value of the wood. Similarly, ensuring 5 factories in Nilgiris District Towards ensuring effective that the furnace or the hot air by Ashwini Kumar Contact implementation of the generator is properly insulated will recommendations of the detailed also lead to tangible savings in wood 6 Progress Report TIDE Project Office TIDE audits, the project has also contacted usage. Experiments on the effects of Tea Board Zonal Office #19, 9th Cross Road, 6th Main Road various energy service companies good wood storage practices on Shelwood, Coonoor Club Road Malleswaram (ESCOs) and is in the process of reducing wood consumption are being 8 Project in the News Post Box No. 6 Bangalore 560003 developing strategies for providing carried out as part of the project. Coonoor - 643101 Phone: 080 23315656 ESCO services to the tea industry. The project website – EnConTea Phone: 0423 2222090 Fax: 080 23344555 The project’s experiments in tea (www.encontea.org) is now online. e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] factories have clearly shown that The website contains basic (For Internal Circulation Only) 8 1 4. Development of a database of equipment suppliers to tea factories VIEWPOINT Tea factories purchase tea- technical know-how. This database is to Interview with Mr. DP Maheshwari, President, UPASI. processing equipments such as air be updated regularly by the project heaters, dryers, Crush Tear Curl team and made available to the tea (CTC) machines from various factories and the project’s technical 1. How do energy consumption the heaters that were designed tea industry. Specifically, suppliers. A database of equipment advisory committee. Members of the practices vary across different tea earlier, using indirect fire, mass of interventions proposed by the suppliers has been developed with project’s technical advisory committee growing regions of the country? casting (it is a set of cast iron tubes project for savings, which does not the information got from tea factories visited Teakrafts, a manufacturer of tea for indirectly heating of air for call for much initial investment, and UPASI. The objective of the processing equipments and conducted There is a wide variation in the drying tea). To bring in effective would be very popular. Other initiative is to work with the equipment The project team at the premises detailed discussions on the various types of fuels being used in change and save energy, the schemes that have a good cost to suppliers, identify energy efficient of an equipment supplier equipments being supplied to tea various tea growing regions. machines have to be redesigned; benefit ratio towards saving of equipments, and undertake energy efficiency of existing factories, on 22nd August 2008. Starting from South India, where in specific the heaters and energy would also be adopted by collaborative activities to improve the equipments by providing the needed vegetable (agricultural) waste processing machineries consume the tea industry. briquettes and firewood are most maximum fuel energy and must 5. Assessment of wood consumption patterns and wood storage facilities in tea factories commonly used, in West Bengal it be reworked. The CTC consumes 6. As a stepwise approach, how Wood is the primary source of fuel for relating to thermal energy intend to is coal whereas in Assam it is the most electricity because of its should the technologists of TIDE thermal processes in south Indian tea identify and promote energy efficient either gas or coal and in a few odd high Horse Power (H.P.). Work impart their know-how and help tea factories. Project interventions air heaters and dryers. In order to cases LDO (Light Diesel Oil). This has been done in this regard by planters with energy conservation assess the current wood consumption has come about with the TRA (Tea Research Association) practices and use of efficient patterns in tea factories, the project availability of various fuels in and a commercial concern in technologies? conducted a detailed study of the fuel these areas. In South India, over Gurgaon. A 40 H.P. machine has You have already taken the first step wood in use - type of wood used, time, fuels used have changed been developed to do the work of by conducting energy audits in each burning rate (in relation to leaf from Furnace oil to Leco (coal) to three CTC machines that run on of the factories so we can know of loading), wood moisture, excess air Coal and presently to vegetable 100 H.P.