Energy efficiency of laundry facilities

Abstract

Services for washing and disinfecting linen and clothes in the modern world are especially popular in other large public enterprises such as hospitals, hostels, hotels, this explains the consolidation of laundries and their reorientation to large volumes of linen. Without a doubt, the laundry process on an industrial scale is a rather costly process. The factor that has a key influence on the cost of production of 1 kilogram of clean dry laundry: the energy (thermal, mechanical and electrical) spent on its production. Since the washing process takes place at high temperatures, it is obvious that heat losses in the washing cycle are quite large and at the moment these losses are simply wasted in enterprises, thereby losing energy, which can potentially bring income, as well as create problems for the environment. In this thesis, a prototype of a highly automated production system is presented, the production process of an enterprise is described, using the simulation of the presented option to calculate the energy efficiency of some production cycles. The aim of the work is to compare several options for systems of energy efficiency systems for washing cycles.