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Corn Milling Industries

Calculations on how we formulated the figure of equivalent cars globally. For the Potential C02 Savings for Mechanical Seal Usage in Industries.
Calculation B  
   
Calculate Pump Time  
2,000 Total Number of Rotating Equipment Per Site
75% Proportion Pumps
1,500 Total Number of Pumps Per Site
90% Utilisation
7,884 Utilisation Hours Per Year Per Pump
11,826,000 Total Pump Utilisation Hours Per Year Per Site
   
Calculate Pump Seal Energy Saving Usage #1  
20% % Plan 32's
300 Plan 32's per site
162 kW per pump seal energy saving plan 32 to 23
0.27 kg CO2 eq per kWh
1,277,208 kWh per pump
344,846 kg CO2 eq per pump
75 cars per pump
383,162,400 kWh per site
103,453,848 kg CO2 eq per site
22,490 cars per site
   
Calculate Pump Seal Energy Saving Usage #2  
10% % Plan 21's
150 Plan 21's per site
40 kW per pump seal energy saving plan 21 to 23
0.27 kg CO2 eq per kWh
315,360 kWh per pump
85,147 kg CO2 eq per pump
18.51 cars per pump
47,304,000 kWh per site
12,772,080 kg CO2 eq per site
2,777 cars per site
   
Calculate Total Energy Savings Per Site  
430,466,400 kWh per site
116,225,928 kg CO2 eq per site
25,267 total number of equivalent cars saving per site
   
Scale Up For Global Usage  
90 global number of sites
38,741,976,000 kWh
10,460,333,520 kg CO2 eq
2,273,986 total number of equivalent cars globally

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Corn Milling Case Studies

Water Savings for South African Corn Miller

  • Water savings

  • Reference: 2644M
  • Savings: ZAR 28,300 in water costs

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Energy Savings for Italian Corn Miller

  • Power conservation

  • Reference: CAR-001
  • Energy saving: €21,000 Annually

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If enough businesses act, together we can slow down or help to prevent Global Warming.

A Summary of Evidence

We estimate that widespread adoption of more climate-friendly policies in industry globally, could have the equivalent impact of taking 630.5 million cars off the roads.

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