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Increased energy efficiency in a Swedish iron foundry through use of discrete event simulation

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Petter Solding,

Patrik ThollanderAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

Pages 1971 - 1976

Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

Abstract

There is a long lasting debate concerning the rapidly increasing energy prices in Sweden. For industry the prices has increased by roughly 100 percent the last 5 years. This situation has resulted in an extensive energy research and the work of this paper is part of that development. The paper presents a methodology to analyze and reduce the energy use within energy-intensive companies where the Swedish foundries are the main targets. The methodology is tested on a Swedish iron foundry. The paper shows that using specially built simulation models companies can lower their energy costs by planning the production in a more efficient way. The methodology described helps breaking down energy parameters into groups and gives examples of how the simulation model can be built to take energy use into consideration.

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

December 2006

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ISBN:1424405017

Editors:
L. Felipe Perrone
Bucknell University
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Barry G. Lawson
University of Richmond
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Jason Liu
Colorado School of Mines
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Frederick P. Wieland
Sensis Corporation
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David Nicol
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Richard Fujimoto
College of Computing, Georgia Tech

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Arinez JBiller SLyons KLeong SShao GLee BMichaloski JMessina EMadhavan R(2010)Benchmarking production system, process energy, and facility energy performance using a systems approachProceedings of the 10th Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop10.1145/2377576.2377593(88-96)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2010
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