Essay On Energy Auditing

MOTIVATION & BACKGROUND
Energy auditing has proved to be an effective and concrete method to achieve rapid improvements in energy efficiency in buildings and industrial processes. An energy audit detects where and how much energy is consumed in a facility, building or structure. It also helps calculating the efficiency of all building elements and systems that influences energy use. Energy
Audit is defined as “The Verification, Monitoring and Analysis of use of energy including submission of Technical Report containing recommendations for improving energy efficiency with cost benefit, analysis and an action plan to reduce energy consumption”.
While being an intern in an energy auditing company such as ‘ENSPAR Energy Solutions (P) Ltd’ in Bangalore

METHODOLOGY
Energy Audit was basically carried out in 3 stages. They were:
1) Pre-Audit Stage:
➢ A visit to establishment was planned and organized. There we conducted brief meetings and awareness programs with all divisional heads and concerned persons regarding energy audit.
➢ This helped us to define the scope of the energy audit needed to be conducted.
➢ Then an energy audit team was formed and we estimated the budget and the time frame required for this kind of audit.
2) Energy Audit Stage:
➢ Further visits were made to those establishments for detailed surveying, monitoring and also data collection of building information, energy consumption and any other relevant data using audit equipment such as Fluke430 series three-phase power quality analyser, thermal imagers, infrared thermometer, earth ground resistance tester etc.
➢ Selected equipment which were identified as ‘energy guzzlers’ (such as HVAC, motors, compressors etc.) were subjected to further detailed monitoring, trails, experiments etc.
➢ Based on all information gathered, detailed energy audit report with necessary process flow diagrams,