Energy for industry

Concentrate on your core business – while we manage power, steam, heating, and cooling

When power, steam, heating, or cooling are available to meet demand at all times, you have the ideal conditions for industrial manufacturing processes in your plant. In addition to greater competitiveness, efficient energy systems and facilities for industrial processes play a key role in decreasing operating costs and emissions. Are you ready for the future?

As an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), our entire portfolio of products and solutions is at your disposal to supply reliable, economical, and environmentally efficient energy – for example with residual gases. Siemens Energy translates our company’s in-depth expertise with industrial processes into fit-for-purpose energy solutions and develops customized end-to-end business models along the entire plant lifecycle. Together we’ll shape the future of industrial energy.

This means that Siemens Energy is also an Original Equipment Consultant (OEC). Analyzing all processes lays the foundation for investigating potential and defining all Siemens Energy manufactured system components. Our comprehensive services – from planning and commissioning to lifecycle services – complement the generation of power, steam, heating, and cooling and power transmission.

Industries According to the International Energy Agency, industry is responsible for approximately 38 percent of total worldwide energy use. This means that a secure, sufficient, and sustainable energy supply is a key factor in the well-being and growth of our societies, while increased efficiency has a positive impact on the competitiveness of nearly all industrial sectors. And for some industries, becoming a prosumer – consuming, producing, and controlling self-generated energy – creates new business opportunities, including feeding excess power and heat into local grids and/or providing grid services.

Energy management for reliable processes

The energy-intensive industries comprising the tissue, board and paper, pulp, graphic papers, and textile segments are preparing for the future. They’ve already taken a leading role in the closed-cycle economy by making optimal use of resources, integrating waste products into processes, optimizing energy requirements, creating self-sufficient energy cycles, and using digitalization tools – but they still need reliable and more environmentally compatible energy supplies.

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Secure and safe energy supply in a competitive market

Reduced costs, greater production flexibility, more efficient processes, and increased plant availability are the factors that drive the players in the chemical industry. No matter what segment – petrochemicals, basic chemicals and intermediaries, specialty and fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, fertilizer, or rubber and other plastics – they typically apply endothermal processes, and that’s where high energy reliability and availability go hand in hand with an increasing demand for energy efficiency. And of course, it must be safe and environment-compatible.

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Efficient production – ensured by an optimized energy system

Extremely high cost and quality pressures and ensuring minimum environmental impact are major challenges for the sugar and ethanol, edible oils and starch, food processing, breweries, and dairy and other beverage markets. This means that their focus is on efficient energy systems. Reliability, eco-transparency, CO2 reduction, and protection of their power supply solutions are just as important as safeguarding the production process.

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Reliable energy with a green focus

With digitalization and the transformation of energy systems, two megatrends are merging to produce manifold interactions. Flexibility and security of supply, high electrical transparency, and grid stability as well as utilizing waste (heat) are the key drivers of maximum uptime and increased efficiency. They’re a priority for buildings and institutions, industrial parks, data centers, and every company that wants to recycle solid, liquid, or gaseous waste into energy.

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Ensure availability – optimize cost structures

Without energy in the form of electricity, heat, steam, cold, or compressed air there’s no industrial production for segments like mining, minerals (concrete, cements), primary metals (smelter), secondary metals and other materials, glass and ceramics, and general manufacturing operations. And without a stable power supply, there’s no competitive process quality and production. With the growing share of renewable energy, the need for grid stability and innovative distribution and storage components is also increasing. Utilizing residual heat and compensating network perturbations play an essential role as well in the reliability and profitability of plants.

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To improve your competitiveness, we work with our customers to co-create an optimal, future-proof energy system that’s grounded in our deep expertise with industrial processes, the energy sector, and business modeling, including financing.

Dr. Stefan Diezinger, Vice President Industrial Business

Fuels and technologies

Grid infeed: Power supply systems in flux

Cost efficiency, grid stability, sustainability, and resource efficiency are the most important requirements for today's energy systems. By using new components, communication technologies, and innovative network concepts, power supply networks are being transformed into highly digital and automated smart infrastructures.

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Biomass: An age-old fuel put to new use

Biomass provides a future-proof source of electricity and contributes to lower CO2 emissions, and the power it produces is more and more economically viable. Biomass plant operators have a number of goals in mind, including ensuring a stable power supply and a financially successful power plant.

Waste to energy (WtE): Taking advantage of a valuable fuel

WtE is the best way to efficiently manage the volume of garbage we produce and be environmentally friendly at the same time. Generating power from waste treatment aims to support a circular economy that eliminates landfilling unprocessed waste.

Solar power: Renewable power generation

Concentrated solar-thermal power plants exploit an inexhaustible source for power production: the sun. When power generation equipment converts solar energy into electricity, it’s not just a free energy source, it’s also completely emission-free.

Combined heat and power: Make the most of your fuel

Climate change, environmental regulations, and fluctuating fuel prices are challenges for nearly all industries. One solution is to maximize energy efficiency. Whether heat is required for industrial processing or the public supply, combined heat and power – or cogeneration – offers a viable and beneficial alternative.

Industrial processes: Understanding the issues

Decarbonization: Moving forward thanks to green solutions

The ecological footprint of power generation can be dramatically improved by reducing or even eliminating the use of fossil fuels. It’s also essential to develop efficient and smart transportation and storage methods for electrical energy from renewables. For many industrial players, sector coupling and better grid flexibility will be crucial to their success.

Reliable energy supply: The Achilles heel of plants and infrastructure

Today's economic success and progress is based on a reliable and secure energy supply. It’s critical for keeping production and infrastructure processes up and running in the event of power failures or other disruptions. Ultimately, the key to efficiency is making power available at all times and places.

Decentralization: New potentials and perspectives

The fast expansion of decentralized energy structures is leading to a diverse energy mix and creating new opportunities for industry and small and medium-sized enterprises. Decentralized local energy systems ensure greater efficiency and a higher degree of security of supply. And new business models can be used to generate supplementary revenue and improve your company's own security of supply.

Efficiency: Strategies for increasing competitiveness

To stay competitive, all energy-intensive industries do everything they can to decrease their expenditures for electricity, heating, and cooling. Way to achieve this range from technologies like highly efficient gas turbines firing flare gas, bio gas, or even hydrogen created from renewables to business models that commercialize excess self-generated electricity.

Understanding our customers is key! With Siemens Energy Original Equipment Consultancy, our customers get just the support they need for a stepwise “green revolution” – in but not limited to heat-driven process industries.

Thomas Tiemeyer, Manager Industrial Business Sales

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How can gas turbine technology make your data center future proof?

More and more data – a challenge for the data center industry, the factories of the 21st century. Captive on-site power generation can play an important role in ensuring maximum uptime and improving the operator's competitiveness. With our gas turbine technology we provide reliable, efficient and sustainable solutions for on-site power generation.

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References Selected examples of successful industrial energy projects

Shanghai Orient Champion Paper on-site power generation

Fiber

Shanghai Orient Champion Paper Co. Ltd.

China

A trailblazer with on-site power generation in China's fiber industry

Challenges: Reliable and future oriented power supply, reduction of CO2 emissions and energy consumption, increased flexibility, minized downtimes, high level of serviceability
Solution: 2x single-shaft SGT-300 gas turbines with a power output of 15.8 MWel (total)
for on-site power generation, accessibility of combustion chambers, flame tubes and ignitors
Customer benefits: Highly reliable power supply as benchmark in Chinese paper industry with 60% CO2 emissions savings through coal-to-gas shift, 24% less energy consumption p.a., 20% savings in electricity costs, opportunity to sell excess power to the grid, additional process steam for dry process

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Mining

Diamantina Power Station Pty Ltd

Australia

One of Australia’s most efficient and ecofriendly Industrial Power Stations

Challenges: High efficiency, low emissions, and part-load capability as well as high availability in start-ups and operation
Solution: 4x SGT-800 Gas Turbine, 2x SST-400 Steam Turbine, 4x Heat-Recovery Steam Generator, SPPA-T3000 Control System, Long Term Service Agreement
Customer benefits: The turnkey power plant solution provides an efficiency well exceeding 50%. The installed base-load capacity of 242 MW is not significantly turned down or with efficiency loss in part load operation. With the highly flexible power station concept, the operator can choose between open and combined cycle operation.

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Food & Beverage

Mitr Phol Bio Power Co., Ltd.

Thailand

Turning waste efficiently into power and steam for Asia’s largest producer of sugar and bio-energy

Challenges: Precision control of temperatures, process steam and electricity, highly efficient production of electricity and high availability in operation
Solution: 2x SST-300 Steam Turbine with 45 MW power output incl. generator, SIMATIC PCS 7 Process Control System, Remote Diagnostic Service
Customer benefits: Mitr Phol increased its efficiency: more electrical power generation with same amount of fuel and increased availability and reliability through early warning notification.

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Chemicals

Oxea GmbH

Germany

15 per cent higher efficiency in production of power and heat in chemical park

Challenges: Replacement of 63 year old radial steam turbine, enhance cost-effectiveness and profitability, increase energy-cycle efficiency
Solution: 2x SST-600 Turbogenerator Set with 45 MW power output incl. lube oil system, high-pressure control oil system control system
Customer benefits: Safe, reliable competitively priced energy supply and a highly reliable production of power and steam 365 days per year are secured. The net plant efficiency increased by 15 per cent. The projects was executed within eleven months.

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Fiber

Energia MK KF, S.A. de C.V.

Grupo Kaltex I Mexico

Power plant reliability increased to 99 per cent, energy costs decreased by 30 per cent

Challenges: Reduce operational costs for energy and steam and improve reliability of power supply to decrease unplanned production facility downtime
Solution: 1x SGT-750 Gas Turbine with >31.7 MW power output and 54 tons of process steam per hour, 1x Power Island incl. Gas Turbine, Heat Recovery Steam Generator, electrical and controls for the plant, and engineering, SIMATIC PCS 7 Process Control System, Long Term Service Agreement
Customer benefits: Investment amortized within three to four years, proven plant reliability of 99 % for higher competitiveness and reduced downtime, 30% reduction of energy costs as well as CO2 emissions using less expensive natural gas.

Fiber

Stora Enso

China

Reliable power supply to ensure uninterrupted fiber manufacturing processes in Beihai Mill

Challenges: Improve reliability of power supply for competitive fiber manufacturing
Solution 1x SST-800 Steam Turbine with 59 MW power output, 1x SGen5-100A-2P Generator, power distribution: power transformers, distribution transformers, harmonic filters, DC systems, emergency power supply, SIMATIC PCS 7 Process Control System, Remote Diagnostic Service
Customer benefits: Proven steam turbine technology reliably supplies power as well as emergency power supply. The project was reliably executed and includes after sales services.

Continuing a succsessful partnership: a new combined cycle power plant gives Evonik a future viable power supply

Siemens Energy will develop and build the highly efficient power plant turnkey project as the general contractor fully financed by Siemens Financial Services and the KfW IPEX-Bank.
Once completed, Marl VII and Marl VI will be able to generate electricity with an overall efficiency of more than 93 percent and a capacity up to 270 megawatts: This is equal to the demand of approximately 750,000 households

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