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The cheapest energy is the energy you don’t use. Convinced of this fact, a civil engineering com-pany recently requested expert assistance from the Heavy Fuel Oils Department. Its aim was to deploy a new, more energy-efficient process in its asphalt preparation plants, where the operations involved in mixing bitumen and aggregates require temperatures of 180 °C. The company had decided to invest in installing heat recovery systems that would significantly reduce its energy consumption and CO2 emissions.As a partner of this project, the Heavy Fuel Oils Department is supporting the initiative, which involves investments running to tens of thou-sands of euros in each location. For the company concerned, even this very significant investment will soon pay for itself, given the recurring savings
generated. It also represents a practical environ-mental contribution that creates a positive image of the company to its environmentally-sensitive audiences.Should you have any project like this, please don’t hesitate to consult our experts in the Heavy Fuel Oils Department. They have the ability to answer the most detailed questions, and will advise you on how to choose the best and most appropriate solutions for your facilities.
Total Services• Expert energy eco-effi ciency adviceWhatever form your energy saving project may take, we can help you to evaluate its EEC poten-tial. This analysis may entitle you to investment support.
• An operational diagnostic analysis of your facilitiesWe will provide you with an inspection report based on a diagnostic analysis conducted by an expert appointed by Total. This report will contain recom-mendations tailored to the needs of your location, backed up by detailed costs, the potential gains in terms of reduced consumption, and any investment support available from Total. An indispensable tool to make the right decision. •* Energy Economy Certificates
For more information:http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/-Certifi cats-d-economies-d-energie,188-.html
TOTAL PARTNERS YOUR ECO-SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS
HEAVY FUEL OIL IN YOUR SUGAR?
HEAVY FUEL OIL NEWS e-letter 1 – November 2012
Between 4 and 7 million tonnes of sugar are produced every year in France by three major international cor-porate groups, and it’s no coincidence that all three are customers of the Heavy Fuel Oils Department. Over and above the historic reasons behind these relation-ships (the Grandpuits refinery is located close to areas of sugar beet production and processing), it is the intrinsic qualities of Total’s ADOC very low sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) that attract these manufacturers. The incorporation of a special additive has the effect of preventing vanadosodic deposits that could oth-erwise result from the combustion process. The use of this additive means that production plants have a longer working life, as well as an optimization of their efficiency.
Financial visibilityAnother special feature of this relationship is the extremely competitive contracts that allow sugar manufacturers to benefit from guaranteed prices fixed for the long term. This is an absolutely essential element, since the cost of energy can account for up to 30% of sugar production costs, so the certainty of fixed prices gives these companies valuable financial visibility going forward.In addition to all these benefits, the proximity of the Grandpuits refinery reduces supply logistics costs and ensures prompt availability. That’s a key issue during the crucial ‘heating season’ between October and March every year. And then, of course, there’s the technical support provided by the experts at Total,
especially in the context of the new regulations to be introduced in 2016 under the Large Combustion Plant Directive. •
For more information about ADOC VLS Heavy fuel oilhttp://www.total.fr/pro/fi oul-lourd/produit/fi oul-lourd-tbts-adoc-plus.html
For more information about the sugar industryhttp://www.lesucre.com/faq/industrie-sucriere
Since the Grenelle 2 environmental Act was introduced in France, Total has been supporting its customers in adopting the EEC* scheme. Although not directly concerned, the Heavy Fuel Oils Department of Total advises and supports its industrial customers in their commitment to lowering energy consumption and reducing their environmental footprint.
Do you like to sweeten your morning coffee with a little sugar?… Quench your thirst with a fizzy drink, perhaps?… Did you know that the sweetness you enjoy is partly the result of a special kind of heavy fuel oil supplied by Total to sugar producers?
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Heavy Fuel Oils Department engineers regularly visit customers to conduct two types of analysis: Detailed Technical Diagnostics (DTD) and Regulatory Technical Diagnostics (RTD). Those most recently conducted involved the Heavy Fuel Oils Department acting on behalf of a building materials manufacturing company. The company had been instructed by the Regional Environment, Development and Housing Department (DREAL) to replace storage tanks it believed were obsolete. The investigation involved conducting a series of Detailed Technical Diagnostics as the basis for sizing the new installations and chec-king their compliance with new tank venting and wall thickness standards. The experts from Total also faced some other major challenges in providing these ser-vices, including the need to define regular inspection procedures and address a long list of technical issues
raised by regulatory changes. These included defining protection procedures to be implemented in the event of pollution caused by a filling point spillage during tank filling operations.
Operating in a fast-moving environment of regulatory change, expert DTD or RTD input from the Heavy Fuel Oils Department provides companies with the assurance that they are complying fully with exis-ting standards, at the same time as optimising plant operation. It’s precisely this that explains the suc-cess of our technical teams. By updating technical knowledge bases with state-of-the-art best practice, a DTD analysis can also deliver substantial savings. Recommendations like tank lagging and boiler effi-ciency optimisation can often release substantial room for manoeuvre. Despite the fact that plants
are more closely regulated in Europe than in many other regions, the gains can still be significant, whilst elsewhere in the world they can be much greater. In fact, the optimization outcome achieved from a project to commission a power generating plant in Africa was described by its manager as being worth “several million euros”.So if you have a project you’d like to discuss, please don’t hesitate to consult our experts. They are here to advise and assist you. •
REGULATORY TECHNICAL DIAGNOSTICS
SAFEBOX: A NEW CLICK FOR THE SDSThe European REACH directive requires suppliers and the Heavy Fuel Oils Department to ensure that their customers have actually received the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for each product used. They must be able to show evidence that the SDS has been provided to the customer, and are also required to describe the exposure scenarios specific to the use of the product concerned, to specify the potential risks to human health and the environment, and to detail appro-priate risk reduction methods. Some SDSs can run to more than 100 pages, and the regulation also requires customer companies to be able to prove that they have the appropriate current SDS in their possession.The current procedure of sending SDSs by post is time consuming, often inconvenient, and never compatible with sustainability criteria (paper consumption, deli-very-related CO2 emissions, etc.). In November 2012, the Heavy Fuel Oils Department (in conjunction with our partner Quick-FDS) took a significant step forward in digitisation by offering a no-charge secure
SDS delivery service via the Internet: the SAFEBOX service. The principle is simple, and should allow everyone to save time and work more efficiently.As the customer, you will receive all the necessary data by e-mail. You can sign up to the SAFEBOX ser-vice at QuickFDS, and your registration will provide the necessary proof of SDS receipt. You will then be given secure access details enabling you to use a dedi-cated page containing the currently-applicable SDS in pdf form. The SDS will be updated automatically
after every major amendment for all customers active in the previous year.This innovative service will be offered completely free of charge to all our customers. •
The Heavy Fuel Oils Department offers its customers a regulatory technical diagnostics service. What are the challenges?What are the potential gains?
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Patrick Havil [email protected] Tel.: + 33 (0)1 41 35 38 70Aurélien Boué [email protected] Tel.: +33 (0)6 17 82 32 25
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