Green WIN demonstrated how smarter management of pumps and other operating elements can optimise energy consumption, reduce carbon emissions, and provide a better service overall. Efficient resource management brings significant economic and environmental benefits by reducing costs and energy consumption.
We realised quite early that we were unlikely to affect significant changes in pump manufacture. Green WIN complemented work going on in the rest of the pumping industry and we could make recommendations, help make some small improvements happen and get/keep the ball rolling.
The emission reductions and electrical power reduction the project shows (and evidences by site) should be impressive enough to encourage a wider roll out in our own organisations. Other organisations should be encouraged to look at this Green WIN evidence and consider making similar improvements to their pumping regimes.
3.01. Number of adopted or applied low carbon technologies
We were targeted with achieving 5 ‘trialled re-configurations of pumping equipment systems and processes’ at 11 locations. This was achieved and our reports set out detailed description of the following.
PUMP CONTROL SYSTEMS (STARTS)
SCADA / AUTOMATION
SMART PUMP TECHNOLOGY (CONTROLS & PUMPS)
LIÈGE TESTING AND OVERARCHING OPTIMISATION
VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES (VSD’S)
Please click here to see the report “PMO 3.01 5 x improved low carb techs x (final)”.
CO26. No. of Enterprises co-operating with research institutions
We were targeted with engaging with 36 organisations working with SME's to champion and promote greener technologies, processes and systems. We achieved 27.
Information about the companies involved and many others from the ‘pump industry’ can be found in the Directory on the Green Pumping Toolkit area of the NIWE website. https://waterwayseurope.com/greenwin-directory/
CO34. Estimated Annual decrease of GHG
We were targeted with achieving a 65 tonnes p.a. reduction in CO2 emissions from re-configurations of pumping equipment systems and processes at our 11 trial site locations. We achieved 200 tonnes p.a.The Green WIN Trial Site Audit Summary Reportconcluded that “Implementation of the scope of works based on the recommendations from Phase 1 is estimated to reduce emissions by approximately 200 tonnes CO2 equivalent (CO2e) per annum based on 2021 emission factors. This comfortably exceeds the original target of 65 tonnes equivalent per annum.”
