[PDF] Top 20 Energy consumption and energy efficiency measures in the Portuguese food processing industry

... Abstract: In the present study, simple energy surveys and audits were performed in 60 companies of the processing industry of meat, dairy, horticultural and ... See full document

... Abstract: The consumers’ demands for more traditional, and healthier food products, such as the Mediterranean diet foods, have led to a search for alternatives that may replace synthetic by ... See full document

... (2005), the capacity of equipment that operate in cycles or processes, to produce the expected ...results. In a physical view, the concept of "efficiency" would be ... See full document

... that the main energy resources are the nuclear (47%) and coal (37%), which is a bad thing for the coun- try's energy security through outdated production technolo- gies ... See full document

... – In the last decades companies aligned with the concepts and principles of sustainable development have been seeking to minimize the environmental and social impacts caused by ... See full document

... activities, the difference of the SEC values, suggests different ways in energy ...use. In this case this indicator can be used to assess the potential for energy savings ... See full document

... - In Portugal the meat sector occupies the highest rank within the food industry having its electricity consumption grown at a high pace mainly due to the intense ... See full document

... guarantees the reduction of accidents, occupational diseases, absenteeism and consequently improves the quality of work, resulting in an increase in productivity and greater ... See full document

... nowadays and for future generations, electricity must be used efficiently since it is a scarce resource and have serious repercussions in the environment due to the process of how it is ... See full document

... or the ability to adequately process ...result in using routines or rules of thumb (Simon, ...on the core production process rather than on ways to save energy ...Likewise, in cases ... See full document

... The energy retrofit packages combine 10 solutions for roof, 10 for exterior walls and 10 for ground floor thermal insulation, 11 options for windows replacement and the use of 4 ... See full document

... The main products of the meat industry sector are the cured ...on the results of 2012, these industries produced ...products and corresponding to a turnover of 249.4 million ... See full document

... The food industry is the major manufacturing sector in ...Portugal. In particular, the fruit and vegetable sector with a wide range of products such as vegetable ... See full document

... estimated energy savings for each technology in each sector, intensive deployment of the renewable energy sources and development of the smart grids were identified as pillars of ... See full document

... regarding energy efficiency and renewable energy in India in the next one-to-two ...Despite the impressive amount of policy directed to the issues 6 ... See full document

... Conceptually, the project is divided in three parts: identification of fuel switching candidates, characterization of identified candidates and economic validation of switching ...Physically, ... See full document

... improve the performance of energy efficiency, throughput and delay in WMSN, the authors [35] designed a Multi-hop TDMA Energy-efficient Sleeping MAC (MT-MAC) ...protocol. ... See full document

... by in- come. The second stage entailed selection, with equal probability, of the household addresses to be visited until 16 successful interviews were conducted per ...CEA. In the third ... See full document

... of the process of freezing strawberries placed in boxes using forced air tunnel was ...modification in each stage of the process (pre-cooling, freezing step and sub-cooling) was ... See full document

... explores the energy efficiency associated with economic efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions in terms of their average rate in the study period for the ... See full document