Carbon Neutral Projects
Case Study: Hydro Polymers
Plenty of ‘resins’ for improved energy efficiency
The Client
Hydro Polymers is a fully integrated manufacturer of PVC, and a major supplier to the PVC market in Northern Europe. PVC is the most common thermoplastic and is used in many domestic, medical, commercial and industrial products for example pipes, bottles and window frames.
The Challenge
The organisation, located in Newton Aycliffe, is striving to become carbon neutral and part of this effort involved reducing the energy costs for the production of suspension PVC resin.
The Solution
Kimpton was appointed to design, manufacture and install an acoustic housing unit complete with integrated ventilation to house a CHP (combined heat and power) generator.
The resulting installation meant that the heat produced by the generator, which would usually be spent to atmosphere, could be used to heat the neighbouring process area therefore providing free heat saving tens of thousands of pounds each year.
The CHP unit was installed next to the s-PVC drier so that the heated air from the unit can be used to meet the majority of the thermal demand for drying of resin and at the same time generate electricity to replace bought in electricity.
A subsequent independent noise survey verified noise reductions had
been attenuated from 113Db(A) as to have negligible increase on the existing
plant background noise levels, a noise reduction of 36dB(A).
