TESLA Project
Last Thursday July 10th, a Wineries videoconference was held with the main goal of discussing the different tasks that are being developed on the wineries sector under the wp4 so far, mainly the works on the simulation of the wineries process, the handbook about this sector and the successful cases in the wineries sector. Partners from Technical University of Madrid, Évora University, CONFAGRI and Spanish Co-ops took part in these meeting.
ABB, SIEMENS, OMRON, PHILIPS, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, CIRCUTOR, GEA WESTFALIA, PIERALISI, LASIAN, YGNIS, COGEBIO, COPELAND (EMERSON GROUP), FRANCESCA PUMP Enologiche GROUP CIAT, CPC SOLAR, APIPNA and WEG.
For the development of the European project TESLA, is being very useful to have information about technologies related to optimizing and energy consumption savings in the food industry, particularly for the 4 sectors under the project: olive oil mills, animal feed factories, wineries and fruit and vegetables proccesing plants.
Within the framework of the Sustainable Energy Week organized by European Commission, TESLA project will be presented in an event which will be hold in Brussels on 25th of June (COPA-COGECA. Rue de Trèves, 61. 1040 Brussels).
The 2014 edition of Green Week, organized by European Commision, the biggest annual conference on European environment policy, has taken place from 3 to 5 June in Brussels.
The theme has been Circular Economy, Resource Efficiency & Waste. The Circular Economy is the set of processes that try to waste as little as possible with the maximum utilization of the waste field where Agriculture is an important actor.
From the begining of the TESLA Project more than 30 documents have been drafted and uploaded in the web site of the project.
There is a big variety of interesting documents referred to the training about energy audits, an Audit Guide accompanied by several annexes, and so on.
Trained Technicians of the Italian Association of Cooperatives have started the energy audits in three feedstuff plants. The plants are referred to the same cooperative that has different production sites and are part of the 30 companies that will have audited under TESLA Project in Italy.
After this experience, they give us several recommendations about the way of carry out the audits:
Asean Brown and Bovery (ABB) has shown its engagement to TESLA Project in several ways, the least one trough their participation in Best Practices Collection.
The last friday 29th of November were held by ABB in Madrid one interesting meeting about energy efficiency in industry.. ABB employs an staff of 145.000 people worldwide with a global turnover of 39.800 M€
This Blog will show the most recent milestones achieved by TESLA members, for instance the public release of key technical deliverables, the celebration of important meetings for the project, the state of audit work, the workshops that will be held in several European regions, and so on.
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37 technicians from the four cooperatives organizations working under TESLA project have positively evaluated the training courses about energy audits. The training sessions have been made up of three theory classes that have taken place in Lisbon, Madrid, Florence and Paris. After this, they have had the opportunity of practicing the acquired knowledge by the developing of an “in situ” energy audit in a cooperative per country. So, three wineries in Portugal, Spain and Italy respectively, and a fruit and vegetables processing plant in France opened their doors to us to be audited as a pilot.
After its development, as shown in the graph, it is notable that around 70% (67.65%) of participants have overall rated the training as "very...
Last month thanks to HISPATEC and PROYECTA INGENIO, TESLA Project visited three fruit and vegetables processing plants in Almería: Vegacañada S.A., VICASOL I y II S.C.A. and S.A.T. LAS HORTICHUELAS.
The main purpose of this visit was to identify the measures applied by this companies to improve the energy efficiency in their processes. Cooling and cold storage represent a high percentage of the energy consumption (around 50%) therefore important energy efficiency measures are being carried out by these companies.