Smart energy initiative

Emerson Process Management's 'Smart Energy Initiative' is designed to combine the company's industrial energy expertise with advanced energy management technologies. The aim is to enable customers to leverage more renewable fuels, lower energy costs and reduce emissions.

Emerson's Industrial Energy Group will focus on modernising and improving the performance of powerhouses, the onsite utilities that provide steam and electricity to power industrial operations, while improving how the manufacturing process consumes energy. A holistic approach, it is said to ensure efficiency in production of energy, and to reduce waste and inefficiencies where energy is used.

At the heart of Emerson's integrated platform technology is its 'true energy' technology, an innovation for calculating the actual calorific values of fuel sources.

The company's software, combined with field control technologies, enables the powerhouse to interchangably use the most available and affordable renewable or waste fuels to create steam to power their operations.