Ctg064 laundries industrial energy efficiency

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Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator - Guide to the laundries sector

Each year the UK industrial laundries sector processes approximately 743,651 tonnes of mainly hotel linen and towels, work wear and linen and garments for the health sector across 134 sites. The energy required to process the product is 1,254 GWh, equivalent to emissions of approximately 281,500 tonnes of CO2 per year (tCO2).

Executive summary The Carbon Trust Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator (IEEA) was launched in 2008 with the objective to identify and accelerate the take up of innovations by industry to reduce CO2 emissions. The programme is split into three stages, Investigation and Solution Identification (Stage 1), Implementation (Stage 2) and Replication (Stage 3). This report presents the findings from Stage 1 of the IEEA for the laundries sector. Each year the UK laundries sector processes approximately 743,651 tonnes of mainly hotel linen and towels, work wear and linen and garments for the health sector across 134 sites. To deal with this requires an energy consumption of 1,254 GWh, which equates to emissions of approximately 281,500 tonnes of CO2 per year 1 (tCO2) . The sector has made significant improvements in its energy performance between 2008 and 2010, with an improvement of 7% being made against its Climate Change Agreement targets. The Carbon trust has been working closely with the sector in 2010 and 2011 to understand the energy use in the laundry process and then to identify opportunities capable of making a step change in energy efficiency. The initial engagement and investigation sought to identify potential innovative opportunities across the laundry through the washing, drying and finishing processes. The monitoring strategy was devised to provide understanding of the separate laundry processes and provide an insight to how they were related and what the savings potential was. This programme was supplemented by engaging with the sector and its supply chain to develop a prioritised list of opportunities for carbon reduction. The overall maximum carbon saving potential for the sector through both good practice actions and future innovation is estimated to be 26% or 74,500 tCO2/yr. The good practice element of this, which includes measures that are well documented, mature and can be implemented by the sector without future Carbon Trust intervention, can deliver around 9% carbon savings (26,000 tonnes pa). Other more innovative opportunities offer the remaining carbon saving potential identified (48,000 tonnes pa). The level of carbon savings that are actually achieved will depend on how many measures the sector implements.

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Data supplied by the Textile Services Association for the year to September 2010


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