CHP
CHP reduces operational costs by €1million for global eye health company
The Edina Group has delivered a new stateoftheart natural gas combined heat and power (CHP) plant to the global contact lenses manufacturer, Bausch + Lomb (B+L), in Waterford City, Ireland. This has saved the company around €1million in annual costs and the CHP plant now supplies 72% of the sites electrical needs and 91% of its thermal energy requirements, reports UKPN.
O
fficially opened on 29th June 2016 by the Mayor of Waterford, Councillor John Cummins and Angelo Conti, Vice President of
Manufacturing, B+L, the CHP plant will supply B+L’s manufacturing facility with 72% of its electricity needs and 91% of its thermal energy requirements, and is recognised as one of the largest projects of its kind in Ireland. Today, the system supplied by Edina provides CO2 savings in excess of 6750 tonnes per annum. The engine output is the equivalent of powering 5,980 homes with its electricity and around 2,105 homes every year with its heating output. The CHP plant is part of B+L’s energy and sustainability strategy to improve its
environmental and social impacts, and reduces the plants operation costs by approx- imately €1million per annum. The CHP facility has an availability of 97.2%. In 2013, Derek O’Connor, Facilities
Engineering and Structural Manager, B+L, led the company to achieve ISO50001 certifica- tion, the first B+L site worldwide to achieve this, by introducing a number of energy reduction projects to include LED lighting, variable speed drives and energy efficient chillers, to name but a few. Phase two of the site’s energy strategy was
to install auto production technologies. Derek O’Connor, recalls, “A number of auto- production technologies were considered such as wind and solar for the site. However,
Bausch + Lomb CHP plant.
"CHP
technology was chosen based on its availability
and return on investment potential.”
Derek
O’Connor, Facilities
Engineering and
Structural Manager, Bausch + Lomb
Heat
Waste Heat Steam Boiler
Recovery skid
CHP technology was chosen based on its availability and return on investment potential. The chosen size and type of CHP was determined in-house and driven by the plant load demand in terms of electrical and thermal usage.” This prestigious and high profile contract
won the attention of a large number of local and international on-site power generation providers. Following an internal competitive tender-
ing and detailed technical analysis process, the contract was awarded to Edina, a lead- ing supplier, installer and maintenance provider for CHP and on-site power generation. Edina were awarded the contract based
on a number of key deciding factors. Firstly, the MWM generator set proposed
was best suited to meet the sites energy needs, offering market leading electrical and thermal efficiency, low operating and service costs and high reliability and availability. Secondly, Edina has an extensive portfo-
lio of delivering successful CHP installations on time and within budget across a number of industry sectors within Ireland and the UK. Lastly, Edina has one of the largest after- sales service teams in Ireland and was able
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