The optimization process is all about finding ways to reduce your energy consumption, lower your carbon footprint and ultimately reach your sustainability targets. Let Grundfos free up your resources and ensure total peace of mind.
Besides providing energy savings, energy optimization will also improve reliability, lower operating costs and extend the lifetime of both pumps and system.
There is a strong global focus on environmental consciousness and responsibility. As a consequence, governments in most countries are working on reducing energy consumption and consequently their carbon footprint.
Most companies have targets around reducing operating costs, energy consumption and lowering CO₂ emissions. By replacing existing systems with optimized and sustainable solutions, you can fulfil your sustainability targets while supporting the global effort to tackle climate change.
Energy optimization is the process of evaluating relevant pumping systems to identify opportunities for improvements that will reduce energy consumption. In addition to energy savings, Grundfos optimization will ensure peace of mind by also substantially increasing reliability.
The Grundfos Energy Optimization portfolio consists of multiple tools depending on each customer’s needs. From the easily and quickly employed Energy Check to the more advanced and tailored Energy Audit. Common for all tools is that they can tell you how much energy you are able to save in your buildings
The Energy Check is a theoretical approach that uses pump data taken from the nameplate. The flow, head and the pump’s motor power are included along with the age of the pump and its operating hours. The advantage of the Energy Check lies in the quick process of gathering the necessary data to determine the potential savings. If more specific information is required, the Energy Check Advanced is recommended.
The Energy Check Advanced uses actual pump data including the flow, head and the pump’s motor power along with the age of the pump and its operating hours. The data is taken from the customer’s own measuring equipment, Building Management System or from spot measurements. The main advantage is that actual pump-related data is used, thus giving a more precise energy saving potential. It’s a relatively quick process to gather the necessary pump data and calculate the potential savings. If more specific information is required, an Energy Audit is recommended.
In an Energy Audit, measuring equipment is attached to the pump and surrounding pipe work and left to monitor the activities of the pumping system during a relatively short and well-defined period. This data is stored on a data logger and inputted into a diagnostic tool developed by Grundfos, specifically designed to identify excessive energy consumption in any kind of pumping system. The result lets you compare the energy consumed by your present pumping system to that of a more efficient pumping system using the data collected during the monitoring period. The whole system is audited to establish the full energy saving potential.