EU SUSTAINABLE ENERGY WEEK
Geert Hees - Group Energy Director
Brussels, 21 June 2012
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Smurfit Kappa Group at a glanceToday we are in 31 countries with 332 facilities
Employees 38,000
Turnover €7 billion
Output (tonnes million) 12
Paper & Board mills 38
Packaging plants 225
Other operations 69
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Challenges we and our industry face
Availability of wood and recovered paper Increase energy efficiency
Preserve fresh waterDecrease use of fossil fuels
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Boundaries
Energy
Water
Air emissions
Water discharge
Evaporation
Paper Mill
Sustainable Mill Project
How does an ideal (realistic) mill from a sustainable point of view would look like?
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Sustainable Mill Project
1. Description of the most sustainable, realistic situation per mill
based on proven technology
2. Overview of the ‘gap’ between the current and the
‘most-sustainable’ situation
Including per item an estimate of:
- investment costs
- sustainable benefits
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Key Performing Indicators on Energy at Smurfit Kappa
1. Lowest specific usage of energy at the mill
Specific electricity usage
Specific heat usage
Efficiency on energy conversion (boiler house)
2. Highest possible level of high efficient heat and power generation
Use as much as possible CHP
KPI is percentage of cogeneration
3. Lowest possible specific level of fossil CO2 emissions
specific direct fossil CO2 emission
specific indirect fossil CO2 emission
KPI is ratio biogenic to fossil CO2 emission
Sustainable Mill Project
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Sustainable Mill Project
Smurfit Kappa Paper Production Technology (PPT) Group is the linking
pin between the operations to:
Determine proven technology
Re-engineering of existing process steps
Calculations based on several basis weight papers and quality of paper
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Sustainable Mill Project
Some examples of energy reductions steps
Steam Usage
Reduction options
Extended Nip Press
Alternative sizing in the size press
Increased dew point in dryer hood
Heat recovery in the hood exhaust air for increasing stock temperature in the head box
Heat recovery from hood exhaust for building heating
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Sustainable Mill Project
Electricity Usage
Reduction options
Internal benchmarking stock preparations
Internal benchmarking on vacuum systems
Re think the use of vacuum systems
Efficient boilers house
To convert the existing biogas from waste water treatment plant into heat
Increase the level of cogeneration
Waste heat recovery
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Sustainable Mill Project
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Sustanable level recycled EU mills
Current situation Sustianable mill
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Energy Efficiency
is a journey not a destination
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