Compilation of an energy saving handbook for textile cleaning businesses

Project duration: June 2015 to June 2017

  • Measurement of energy and media flows in pilot operations in the laundry industry
  • Analysis and optimisation of laundry businesses
  • Laboratory testing to analyse processes
  • Developing a calculation tool enabling analyses of laundry businesses to be carried out quickly
  • Producing a useable handbook

Funded by the Deutscher Textilreinigungs Verband and supported by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt [German Federal Environmental Foundation]

FKZ (project number): 32093/01-24/2

The research partnership FORENERGY “The energy-flexible factory”

FORENERGY – Developing measures to avoid peak loads in technical systems and to facilitate flexible energy uptake using smart control strategies

Project duration: September 2012 to August 2015

  • The aims are to provide innovative solutions in response to the challenges posed by the energy transition, in the form of an energy-flexible factory:
  • to reduce energy consumption and to equalize peak loads experienced by generating companies
  • to synchronize energy supply and demand by production planning and control
  • to enable short-term load-shifting by generating companies, to stabilize electricity networks

Funding by: Bavarian Research Foundation FKZ: AZ-1023-12

Sustainably enhancing the energy efficiency of laundry businesses

A holistic energy analysis of a laundry business as a potential solution to enable process-integrated energy saving as a means of increasing the energy-efficiency of laundry businesses in a sustainable way

Project duration: September 2012 to August 2015

  • Measuring flows of energy and media in laundry businesses
  • Drawing up an energy balance sheet for those businesses
  • Analysing and optimising the laundry businesses
  • Carrying out follow-up measurements once improvements have been implemented
  • Developing a calculation tool enabling analyses of laundry businesses to be carried out quickly

Funding by: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt [German Federal Environmental Foundation] FKZ (project number): 28612/02