ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has started a quarterly competition on energy efficiency.
The winners will receive rewards for their suggestions.
For example, there is a way to decrease the volume of reactive electric energy, which costs the company 22 million UAH per year. The creation of a special program that monitors the consumption of the excess energy in the oxygen manufacture alone will save the company 2.6 million UAH per year. The application of the system in other departments will considerably decrease the expenses.
Another example is the decrease of chemically purified water consumption, used to cool down the heat plant machinery. The decrease in consumption by 1.8 million cubic meters per month will let the company save some 4 million UAH per year. (Ukrainian metal)