CONFERENCE
The inaugural 2025 Industrial Sustainability Best Practices in Barcelona, Spain, will convene to share high-impact carbon reduction and water conservation projects available in industrial on-site utilities. Representing 10-40% of total industrial energy consumption, on-site utilities (compressed air, nitrogen generation, blowers, vacuum and HVAC/process cooling) are where industrial-size energy and water conservation project opportunities exist. Manufacturing process safety and quality will also be discussed as it relates to sizing, maintenance and measurement fundamentals.
- Sustainability: Learn to dramatically reduce energy and water consumption in plants through System Assessments.
- High-Quality and Safety: Protect food products or high-tech equipment from contamination. Learn how to set a specification and verify compliance.
- Reliability: Maximize Up-time through proper sizing, system design and monitoring instrumentation.
CONFERENCE TRACKS
Track 1
Energy & Water Efficiency Summit
Vigorous NET ZERO and Energy/Water Conservation goals will focus on compressed air, vacuum and HVAC/Process cooling systems as they can represent 10-40% of the total energy consumption in a plant. Receive industrial-sized, energy/water-saving project ideas and hear success stories of projects delivering up to 50% of annual carbon reduction goals.
- Sizing calculation fundamentals for air compressor/chiller/cooling tower efficiency
- How to identify and track key system efficiency metrics
- System supply strategies for efficiency and turn-down capability
- Demand reduction strategies: lowering pressure and temperature specifications
- Leak detection and repair
- Air-cooled vs. water-cooled calculations including water treatment
- Retrofitting dry and adiabatic chillers
- Reducing make-up water use in cooling towers
- Vacuum pump projects
Track 2
Process Safety & Quality: Sizing, Maintenance & Measurement
How does your SQF/BRC/ISO Quality Management system verify the purity and quality of the compressed air, vacuum, and cooling system, which enters into contact with manufactured products? Quality & Product Safety staff will learn to write specifications, and work with plant maintenance and engineering to verify compliance.
- Where does contact with our process/product occur? Direct or Indirect?
- Potential microbiological contamination of food and pharma products
- Potential production downtime and product spoilage
- Using ISO 8573.1 to write a compressed air quality specification
- Sizing calculation check-list for compressed air purification equipment
- Maintenance procedures and measurement instruments required for specification compliance
- Compressed air condensate drain best practices