Electricity Optimisation at CEPT (Part -1)

Anshika Bhatt

Electricity Optimisation At Cept

• Importance of saving electricity

• Observations on campus

• Electricity saving measures

Importance of saving electricity

• Electricity is needed in almost every phase of life now. We all need electricity to live a comfortable life full of amenities.

• Without electricity, world would not have been able to process this much. Almost in all the works electricity is the most important aspect. For example, all the health and educational facilities are governed by electricity also motor mechanics in the garages and engineers in the factory depend on electricity.

• Also all the transportation all over the world is dependent on the electricity.

• In the CEPT University (Ahmedabad), saving electricity is very important as most of the work done by the students, faculty and staff is on electronics such as computers, laptops, mobile phones, tablets,etc.

• Also in the university all of the time all the spaces of the building are working throughout thats needs electric supply for lights, fans, A.C.’s etc.

• CEPT is one of the university that allows the students to work till 12 am in night and sometimes all night and because of it more consumption of electricity takes places. CEPT university also have various events happening frequently in the campus itself which also consumes electricity. Therefore, it is very important to save electricity in the university.

Observations on campus

• In the CEPT University, there are some of the building which has solar panels and some buildings don't have.

• In the university campus, it is observed that in every spaces of the building there are more than five switch boards, more than five fans and tube lights and some of the spaces have air conditioners and projectors too and all of these require much supply of electricity.

• In the campus, there are IT departments and administration departments running which requires more amount of electric supply. Also there are workshops in campus which have huge machines that require a lot amount of electrical supply too.

• In the building of architecture in CEPT, there are industrial fans installed in some of the spaces of the building which runs with help of solar panels installed in the building.

• In the building of Design in CEPT, double glazed glass have been installed which helps in climate control.

• In CEPT university, spaces are separated by tack boards and because of it sometimes air coming from fans are interpreted also lights coming from tube light are hindered by the partitions and because of it more fans and lights are used than require thus, finding a new partition method can be used to save electricity.

• It has been observed that in campus students don't turn off lights and fan even when they are not using the space and because of it wastage of electricity take place.

Electricity saving measures

In CEPT university electricity consumption is more and that is the reason saving electricity plays an very important role. Some of the measures to save electricity are as follows:

• Use of solar equipments and insulations

• Low cost measures in terms of lighting

• Low cost measures in term of heating and cooling

• Rapid payback measures

Use of solar equipments and insulations :-

Some of the measures to save electricity with equipments are as follows:

• Solar panels can be installed in all the buildings of the university which helps in conserving the electricity.

• Double Glazing can be used installed in the majority windows of the all the building in the university.

• Solar boilers can also be installed in the university campus.

• Materials that can extra insulation can also be taken into consideration as it helps to prevent heats entering the space.

Pie Chart

Pie chart shows which energy saving measures are more efficiently and use in much amount. For example solar panels are used the most in compare to others while solar boilers are used least in compared to others.

Low cost measures in terms of lighting :

• Use of sunlight can be maximize. As sunlight is free and very healthy too for human body, therefore using sunlight more is effective way of cost saving in terms of light. For maximum usage of sunlight in the CEPT university window and the opening placement can be in such a way that it allows maximum sunlight and at a same point not direct and harsh sunlight

• More usage of task lighting wherever it is possible As task lights have lesser energy consumption compared to other lights also if it is used carefully and if it is of a good company it lasts more than other lights.

• The administration of the university can implant a regular maintenance of light program where it can be observed that which lights consumes more energy than others, places in the university which requires more lights than other places and visa versa and observation on placing a light in the most effective manner by doing some trials.

Low cost measures in terms of heating and cooling :

• Having trees and vegetation planted around the campus and buildings in the campus can help the building in maintaining the temperature and it also gives fresh air to breath

• In summers, southern sides of opening and windows can be covered by blinds to reduce the excess heat and sunlight.

• The administration of the university can implant a regular maintenance of heating and cooling system where it can be observed that which spaces gets more heat than others and for that which insulation or HVAC can be installed in that place and visa versa.

• Regular checks on the pipelines of the cooling and heating system and if there is any leakage it should be repaired fast.

• In the building of the universities where vents are placed, make sure that it is cleaned and no furniture or paper stacks are around it as more energy is required to distribute air if vents are blocked.

• Rapid payback measures :

• Balance air and water system in the university.

• Insulations and solar equipments can be installed as it gives much amount of payback after a time.

• Energy effective motors that is standard induction motors and geared motors can be used in the university for saving electricity.

• An observation on campus can be done and from which unnecessary installed lighting and heatingcooling appliances can be removed or installed in place where it is more necessary.