ITF, ELGI Join Hands For Energy Conservation

Machinery and Technology

ITF, ELGI Join Hands For Energy Conservation

Energy conservation has become a focus for textile mills given the rising energy cost. Interestingly, the most expensive component in the total cost of compressed air is energy, says Anvar Jay Varadaraj, Head Marketing & Corporate Communications, Elgi Equipments.

To demonstrate the real savings on energy, the Coimbatore-based air compressor manufacturing major Elgi Equipments Ltd has joined hands with Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF) and designed a comprehensive programme on air audit.

The programme includes information session for owners and managers on the compressed air best practices, practical training sessions for maintenance engineers and air audit programmes that help recognise cost savings. Varadaraj said under the Elgi-ITF programme, air audits were conducted across 130 textile mills in the South over the past 12 months. The annual savings worked out to Rs 14 crore with an average compressed air energy cost reduction of 43%.

Air Alert warning

The company has recently launched a service Air Alert, a free of cost, sim-based data transmission service that will monitor the compressor's critical parameters to ensure optimum energy consumption and compressor failure prevention. Varadaraj said Elgi is committed to 500 air-alert equipped machines by the end of this calendar year. "We have to date, inserted the air-alert sim in the (Elgi) compressors owned by 21 members of the Federation.