Unilever’s ice cream factory, based in Gloucestershire, recently benefited from using the Grundfos Pump Audit to help reduce the power consumption of its existing pumps.
The Pump Audit is simply a check up of your pumps system. It checks the overall efficiency of your current pumps and highlights how much energy you could save by switching to a more efficient pump.
The Pump Audit was completed testing a duty point specific to the sites requirements. The Audit concluded that the existing 37kW pumps were costing more than £16k per annum to operate, once the correct duty had been calculated it was agreed that the replacement pumps would now only need to be rated at 15kW. This meant that a fixed speed pump would have cost less than £7k per annum.
However, Unilever opted to utilise the Grundfos variable speed range of end suction pumps to offer a greater amount of control for the process. The new pumps will increase the savings by a further 20%, with a payback period of only 12 months.
Engineering Technician for Unilever – Grant Burgess commented “The Grundfos Pump Audit helped us to identify the correct pump sizing required to meet our current process conditions. The use of variable speed pumps will give even more savings and leave us with the flexibility to speed up the pump to accommodate any future additions to the process load.”
To find out more about the Grundfos Pump Audit please contact Grundfos Pumps, on 01525 775407 or email ukindustry@grundfos.com
For more information contact Grundfos Pumps, Leighton Buzzard, Beds.
Tel: 01525 850000 Fax: 01525 850011
Email uk-sales@grundfos.com Web: www.grundfos.co.uk
Grundfos Pumps Ltd
- 01525 850000
- grundfosuk@grundfos.com
- http://www.grundfos.com
- Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire LU7 4TL GB
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