Saturday, August 18, 2012

Campco cuts dependency on grid power

The Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative Ltd. (Campco) has commissioned one more vapour absorption machine (VAM) at its chocolate factory, Puttur, reducing its dependency on 
grid power further, according to its president Konkodi Padmanabha.

The new VAM has been commissioned to supply energy to produce chilled water for complete requirement of the chocolate plant, he said in a release.

M. Suresh Bhandary, managing director of the cooperative, told The Hindu that the VAM converted steam into energy. Steam was produced using bio-briquettes.

Last year, the factory had commissioned its first VAM for supplying energy to all air-conditioning units at the factory. Commissioning the new VAM reduced dependency of the factory on grid power by 16,000 units a month. The new VAM supplied 1.8 lakh units of power a year.

Mr. Bhandary said that with this, the factory’s dependency on grid power now stood at 8.2 lakh units a year.

He said the total energy requirement of the factory stood at 62 lakh units.

In that, it got 52 lakh units from its two wind mills at Chikkodi and Hoovinahagadali.

The new VAM supplied 1.8 lakh units a year.

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