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| Sunday, 18 August 2002 |
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Successful energy managers rewarded for their efforts The Ceylon Tobacco Company engineering manager and his team, Lanka Electricity Company, Royal Fernwood Porcelain Ltd. and a research team led by Upali Daranagama received the SLEMA Awards at the Annual Awards Ceremony of the Sri Lanka Energy Managers Association (SLEMA) held in Colombo recently. The awards, given to companies and individuals who had made outstanding contributions to energy management, were presented by Power and Energy Minister Karu Jayasuriya. For these awards, SLEMA considered the planning, analysis, implementation and monitoring work done to save energy, to ensure that the savings achieved are measurable and sustainable. The Professor Mohan Munasinghe Award was presented to the Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC) team for energy efficiency projects implemented at the CTC factory. The energy forecasting and benchmarking exercise conducted by the team has resulted in the improvement of the power factor of the company's electrical system, leading to substantial savings. The Lanka Electricity Company (LECO) received the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation Award for its efforts to reduce losses in the distribution network. Through systemic analysis and the implementation of several projects, LECO had reduced losses to 6.9 per cent, while also helping the Ceylon Electricity Board reduce losses. LECO's network loss reduction programme had saved an estimated Rs. 65 million and Rs. 132 million in 2000 and 2001 respectively through fuel cost savings. Royal Fernwood Porcelain won a merit certificate for the savings of LP Gas in its factory by recovering the waste heat of the kiln and using it to dry greenware, before the product enters the kiln. The project, which had cost Rs. 2.1 million, was fully paid back within six months. Mr Daranagama's team won the SLEMA Award for the best energy-related study. The systemic in-depth study of the tea withering process carried out by the team had revealed that 30 per cent of the electricity used in the withering fans can be saved. The results of this study have now been implemented in several tea factories. |
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