The company SIPA – BINDI is a food company that produces desserts for catering, with a production plant on the outskirts of Milan, in San Giuliano Milanese. BINDI is a leading company in the sector in Italy, with a strong presence also at an international level.

The BINDI plant occupies a total area of 30,000 square meters.
The plant’s annual energy requirements are 14,366 MWh of electricity and 14,644 MWh of thermal energy in the form of hot water.
The company’s main needs were:

• Define the degree of energy efficiency of the systems present
• Investigate the causes and extent of energy waste
• Define the energy efficiency measures to be proposed

From the energy audit carried out, the following energy efficiency interventions were identified:

• Installation of LED lighting within a section of the plant
• Replacement of electric motors
• Heat recovery, in the form of hot water from the air compressors, to be integrated into the domestic hot water circuit

By upgrading the energy efficiency of the plant, with a view to obtaining a significant benefit, a trigeneration plant will be installed with an electrical power of 1.2 MWe, a thermal power of 1.187 MWt and a cooling capacity of 0.442 MWf, entirely absorbed by the production cycles.

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