The effective on-line use of personal computers in conjunction with DCS for enhanced product quality and energy efficiency

Energy represents fifteen per cent of the production costs associated with paper manufacture. In 1989 UK Paper´s New Thames Mill, the UK´s largest producer of high quality printing/photocopying paper, undertook a number of energy related studies using Brighton Polytechnic´s Control and Dynamics Research Department for technical support. The authors detail work carried out to ascertain the extent to which a number of quality and process parameters affect steam consumption in the dryer section of the paper machine (J. Grant et al., 1978). A number of energy reduction strategies are then proposed and discussed