AN ENERGY AUDIT IN A TEA MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY AT NORTH BENGAL, INDIA

Abstract

Growing concerns about rising energy bills due to high energy consumption and its adverse environmental impacts vis-à-vis stringent environment protection act (EPA) has forced many industries to carry out energy audit. The energy audit helps identify the opportunities to reduce energy bills keeping production amount and quality same or, even better and thereby, conserve environment. In the present paper focus is given on energy audit plan for a medium scale tea manufacturing industry having its own garden located at Jalpaiguri area of North Bengal, which is the northern part of West Bengal, India. By executing the audit, amount of energy usage by the machineries and production processes are determined and analyzed. Finally somesuitable recommendations are suggested to bring down overall energy use. Keywords: