Energy Efficiency Indicators About an Italian Representative Hollow Glass Plant
In recent years, the European Union has actively advocated for decarbonising hard-to-abate industries, including the glass sector. Stakeholders in both glass manufacturing and the research community have collaborated to fulfil ambitious CO<sub>2</sub> emission reduction objectives mandat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2025-03-01
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| Series: | Energies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/7/1737 |
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| Summary: | In recent years, the European Union has actively advocated for decarbonising hard-to-abate industries, including the glass sector. Stakeholders in both glass manufacturing and the research community have collaborated to fulfil ambitious CO<sub>2</sub> emission reduction objectives mandated by Brussels, in several ways. The initial strategic action to be undertaken involves reducing energy consumption through energy efficiency interventions; to achieve this goal, it is essential to be aware of own consumption indicators by comparing them with appropriate performance ones. There are not many updated references connected to real-world cases, nor are indicators specifically tied to individual phases of the production process available. After a brief presentation of the container glass sector, which is the most important subsector, in terms of production capacity in Italy and the EU and its production process, the manuscript describes a real and representative plant of the sector, which has made its data available anonymously. In this way, energy performance indices representative of a typical production of the sector have been defined: they are updated and more detailed than the ones available in the literature. This representation therefore constitutes a case study that is representative of the most common plant configuration in the hollow glass sector in the EU. |
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| ISSN: | 1996-1073 |