Process Energy
ARTISTA provides multidisciplinary consulting services and understands the value of adopting an integrated approach that includes process, energy, climate and cost perspectives to effectively identify the best process energy solutions.
As a capital, energy-intensive industry and one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases, the process industry faces several challenges. These can have major impact on corporate earnings and the industry’s ability to remain competitive, namely due to energy consumption and waste streams, raw materials, water scarcity and carbon emissions, with energy spend being one of the largest cost items incurred.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s International Energy Outlook 2016 Reference case, in 2012 the industrial sector consumed 54% of the world’s total delivered energy. From 2012 to 2040, the global industrial sector’s energy use is expected to increase annually by approximately 1.2%, from 222 quadrillion to 309 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu).
How we generate energy today and, more importantly, in the future is a key issue of our time. Pivotal are the solutions that are energy-efficient, renewable, and produce fewer or no greenhouse gas emissions.
As industrial and energy companies worldwide seek ways to maintain optimal system processes and plant performance while planning and supporting all aspects of global sustainability improvements, process energy can act as the solution to counter the challenges faced. Process energy plays a key role in terms of improvements in the usage of assets, efficient industry and energy processes, and in the effective use of renewable energy sources and resources such as energy, water and raw materials to help eliminate or reduce operational and energy inefficiencies, and decrease total operating costs. These factors, especially when combined, deliver benefits that can generate profits, increase competitiveness, manage risks to the environment, reduce carbon footprints from production, and attain operational excellence.
Sustainable energy technologies that convert raw sources into renewable supply, such as with thermal energy conversion of biomass and waste streams through combustion or gasification for the generation of power and heat, are also important energy-efficient solutions that can supply electricity and heat to facilities as well as provide environmental and economic benefits.
Deep Process Expertise and Tailored Solutions
ARTISTA provides multidisciplinary consulting services and capabilities, and understands the value of adopting an integrated approach that incorporates process, energy, climate and cost perspectives to effectively identify the best process energy solutions. We offer comprehensive expertise in all areas of process energy, including:
We can work on projects in the majority of industrial sectors including food and beverage, biotech and pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, chemical, and manufacturing sectors, including automotive, requiring a vast array of skills to meet our clients’ demands and goals. Our process energy specialists can impart overall and specific knowledge on your operation’s energy use and waste streams and, through our resource efficiency programs, identify where and how cost savings of up to 20-25% can be attained with only small investments.
We also offer a broad range of skills and cutting-edge expertise within thermal energy conversion for companies in the energy and industrial sectors, as well as technical responsibility and support in complete project implementations.
How We Help Clients Reduce Energy Consumption, Increase Energy Savings and Contribute to Greater Sustainability
Wherever the location or whatever the industry, by listening to and partnering with our clients we’ve been able to tap into their challenges and needs. We’ve helped them understand the roots of their business hurdles—be it current, imminent or even anticipating the unforeseeable—guided them in seizing valuable opportunities, and provided actionable insights and innovative solutions to resolve their problems and help grow their business while increasing energy efficiencies and reducing the impact on the environment.
Global Market Demands Require Effective Decision-Making and Process Energy Skills
Evolving energy demands and market conditions call for strategic thinking and decision-making, and specialist process energy competencies. We can provide clients with solutions to their business problems, help identify opportunities, make key decisions, and select the right investments that deliver the greatest impact toward sustainability improvements. We can also build on client collaborations and partnerships throughout the project process — from early conceptual studies to permitting and environmental impact assessments and all the way through to the solution or basic and detailed design of the plant, including an array of disciplines such as process consulting, automation, and electrical, mechanical and structural engineering.