Sustainable laundries need to be fully efficient-from the machine to the workflow and best practices in all areas to utility consumption
Energy saving is the mission
This year, Girbau, whose mission is to reduce emissions and improve laundry efficiency, has been cooperating with industrial supplier SMC to optimize the energy efficiency of its ironing line. It is reported to have achieved outstanding results, allowing customers to save up to 30% in energy consumption and 25% of air consumption.
Girbau equipment adopts the latest energy-saving, recycling and water-utilizing technologies to reduce the water footprint and environmental impact of all washing and drying processes. In this regard, the company cooperated with Tecnolav Sustentable, a laundry shop in Argentina, to expand, enabling it to increase its daily flax throughput from 300 kg to 20 tons. The installation of the Girbau machine was a huge success: the laundry room managed to reduce energy costs and significantly increased the profitability of the business and production data. Overall, water consumption was reduced by 70%, chemicals used in the process were reduced by 30%, gas was reduced by 20%, and steam was reduced by 10%.
In the context of Covid-19, the company is also committed to providing solutions to ensure proper disinfection of linen to protect people's health. That’s why it developed its pioneering DMP (Disinfection Monitoring Package), designed specifically to ensure the sanitation and disinfection of laundries, and formed an alliance with the Swiss company HeiQ to enable Girbau to start offering HeiQ Viroblock to our customers, An anti-viral and anti-bacterial textile technology that has proven its effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus behind Covid-19), designed specifically for industrial laundry facilities in the healthcare, hotel, and food industries.
Finally, the company is making a significant contribution to the circular economy through projects such as Clint, which is the result of the cooperation between Girbau LAB and the Elisava School of Design. Clint is a versatile, recyclable new material made from textile waste left in the dryer filter.
Water heater manufacturer Rinnai recently completed a detailed report stating that if off-site sites switch to using bio-liquefied petroleum gas as the main fuel source for water heating, carbon emissions may be reduced by 81%.
BioLPG is conceptually renewable and sustainable because it is made from a mixture of waste, residue, and sustainably sourced materials. BioLPG can be described as an ecological propane because the chemical composition of this gas is the same as that of LPG, so from a combustion point of view, it is compatible with existing in-situ LPG products.
BioLPG is a by-product of the biodiesel production process. In the manufacturing process, the raw materials go through a series of complex treatments. They combine with hydrogen in a process called hydrogenolysis, which separates and purifies their energy content. During the refining process, various waste gas containing BioLPG will be produced. For every ton of biodiesel, approximately 50 kg of bio-liquefied petroleum gas is produced from this gas stream. This by-product is then purified to make it the same as conventional propane. The carbon factor related to BioLPG used in this report is 0.0487 kgCO2e/kWh.
The Linnaeus report focuses on several off-grid building envelopes that can benefit from high-efficiency LPG water heaters, and compares the carbon footprint from the perspective of energy transition. The focus of the transformation is to achieve carbon savings by switching from oil heating systems to liquefied petroleum gas, and then upgrading liquefied petroleum gas to bio-liquefied petroleum gas.
These applications use hot water-intensive buildings in the off-grid leisure and hospitality industries to model reports.
Report author Chris Goggin said: “This report aims to determine the environmental impact of energy conversion in typical off-grid high-capacity DHW applications. The focus of the energy transition is on the main off-grid energy sources, namely petroleum, LPG, and bio-liquefied petroleum. gas.
"If this energy transition is used to support widespread decarbonization in an off-grid environment, the report aims to identify possible reductions in carbon emissions. The results show that there is potential for widespread decarbonization, while also providing consumers with economic and technical A feasible solution.
'In places where liquefied petroleum gas is already in use, when bio-liquefied petroleum gas conversion is available, the existing water heating technology can still be used in the future. This will make use of existing fuel infrastructure and heating technology, thereby bringing the potential for capital and operating expenditure savings to end users.
An efficient laundry room is a sustainable laundry room, and many companies are seeking expert consultants to achieve this goal. LTC Worldwide was founded by Dr. Richard Neale in the 1990s and has continued to grow and diversify in recent years. For a long time, it has been the leading consulting company in the British laundry industry-as its name implies-providing training, consulting and textile testing services for laundries, laundromat customers and the laundromat supply chain. On behalf of LTC Worldwide, Dr. Neale contributed conventional material solution functions in LCNi.
The evolution gained momentum when the current managing director Steve Anderton joined the company in 2007. Anderton brings a wealth of knowledge in the field of internal laundry (OPL), NVQ, and healthcare to the company.
When Stuart Boyd joined the company in 2011, this evolution continued. Boyd's work in managing laundries in the public and private sectors, providing FE courses, and providing technical services for laundries with detergents brought his extensive knowledge of the industry to LTC.
During the pandemic last year, due to the same challenging economic conditions as most industries, the business had to develop further, which led Boyd and Anderton to decide to move their business to the Jolly Business and Technology Center as this business.
This review led LTC to welcome Robin Highfield to the team. Highfield has accumulated more than 30 years of textile knowledge and experience for many textile suppliers in the field of quality and procurement management.
Although each team member has specific expertise, there is a lot of crossover, and in many cases, in-depth conversations were held on many issues, such as dirty or damaged tablecloths, or the laundromat may have potential for improvement.
Anderton specializes in the implementation of EN14065 laundry processing textiles-biological pollution control system. He is a member of the Middle East Chapter of the TRSA Advisory Board and is the treasurer of the Hospital Linen Service and Laundry Managers Association. Steve is the first contact for OPL Laundromat and EN14065.
At the same time, Boyd is responsible for providing training, education and guidance, as well as providing most of the technical training provided by TSA and customized courses used by many leading money launderers. He also specializes in EN14065, specializing in microbial sampling and extensive experience in healthcare and detergent supply and management. Stuart has extensive experience in most aspects of the laundry industry, which means he is the number one contact for laundry consultation.
Highfield's focus is mainly on textile testing and is providing more and more support for all aspects of LTC both internally and on-site. His recent actions have led to the streamlining of the textile testing system, thereby improving the testing capabilities of the business.