Customers’ progress toward sustainability and productivity goals will be accelerated thanks to Ecolab and Siemens’ recently established strategic cooperation.
Together, the businesses are introducing Climate Intelligence, powered by ECOLAB3DTM and Siemens gPROMS, a novel solution that enables users to virtually model various scenarios involving their water and energy systems in order to find opportunities for water and energy savings while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Ecolab, the world leader in water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services, and Siemens, the world leader in digital twin technology, automation, and digitalization, combine their distinct capabilities to create Climate Intelligence.
Together, Ecolab’s ECOLAB3D analytics platform, a worldwide array of solutions and breakthrough digital twin technology from Siemens can assist industrial firms in taking significant steps toward decarbonization through more effective, less energy-intensive operations.
Traditional utility systems are a source of significant greenhouse gas emissions, as water requires substantial energy to heat, cool, move and treat.
By improving water efficiency using new dynamic insights from Climate Intelligence, companies can drive emission reductions and preserve system reliability all at the same time.
According to Darrell Brown, president and chief operating officer of Ecolab, “water transports a considerable proportion of production plant energy—typically 33% up to 75%—so the chance to cut emissions through more efficient operations is essential.”
There has never been a greater need for energy conservation as global climate and energy concerns emerge.
Customers may use the combined Climate Intelligence expertise of Ecolab and Siemens to help them achieve their challenging cost, energy and environmental goals.
Costas Pantelides, CEO of Siemens Process Systems Engineering, a Siemens Digital Industries company, said, “Siemens is thrilled to be cooperating with Ecolab on this big endeavor to make sustainability more accessible and affordable across the entire spectrum of the process industries.”
Our method has been demonstrated to cut annual CO2 emissions by tens of thousands of tonnes for a typical plant while generating considerable energy cost reductions with no extra capital expenditure, using high-fidelity process models in conjunction with real-time plant data.
With this cutting-edge expertise and Ecolab’s sizable global footprint in the process industry, we want to significantly advance the sector’s sustainability objectives.
Demonstrating early results
Early tests of Climate Intelligence have produced notable outcomes.
In one instance involving a refinery in Latin America, Siemens and Ecolab’s Nalco Water division collaborated to lessen the carbon impact connected with each barrel of manufactured product.
The refinery was able to maintain or enhance production while cutting water use by up to 1,000,000 cubic meters and CO2 emissions by up to 38,000 metric tonnes yearly thanks to Climate Intelligence’s assistance.
Climate Intelligence is a component of Ecolab and Siemens’ overarching plans to assist companies all over the world make rapid strides toward challenging climate targets.
Customers of Ecolab were able to save 45 trillion BTUs of energy and 3.6 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2021.
By lowering greenhouse gas emissions by 6 million metric tonnes annually by 2030, Ecolab hopes to assist its clients in becoming completely carbon neutral.
Siemens was one of the first significant industrial companies in the world to make the commitment to achieve climate neutrality by 2030 six years ago.
Siemens has since decreased its CO2 emissions by more than halving.
Additionally, in fiscal 2021, Siemens’ clients were able to cut their CO2 emissions by 87.5 million metric tonnes.
Source: Ecolab
