Energy efficiency potential in refineries

Crude oil refining accounts Energy costs often represent

for 6–8% of all industrial up to 50% of total operating
energy consumption expenditures

Alfa Laval’s contribution

Yearly new installations
Every year, new Alfa Laval plate heat
exchangers prevent 800,000 tonnes
of CO2 and 3.3 TWh of energy
from being produced compared
to traditional technologies. That is
enough energy to heat:
Total installed base
Alfa Laval’s total installed base of
heat exchangers annually reduces
13 million tonnes of CO2 by saving
54 TWh of energy. The energy
generated by:
Service potential
If all refineries regularly serviced
their plate heat exchangers to
optimize heat transfer efficiency,
energy consumption could be
reduced by 60 TWh every year,
saving 13.6 million tonnes of CO2
emissions – the same as:
Imagine if…
...all refineries used plate heat
exchangers from Alfa Laval instead
of traditional technologies. Energy
consumption could be reduced by
23% or 1000 TWh – the same as:

236,000 5,450 44,000 245 million

American homes Wind turbines Flights between Tonnes of CO2,
London – Shanghai Equivalent to Spain
Energy efficiency potential in refrigeration
Plate heat exchanger technology enables a
10% energy reduction compared to shell-
and-tube technology.
Alfa Laval’s contribution
Yearly new installations
Every year, new Alfa Laval plate
heat exchangers save 367 GWh of
electrical power and reduce CO2
by 84,000 tonnes, compared to
traditional technologies. That is the
annual carbon emitted by:
1,000
Heavy trucks
Alfa Laval offers a complete product
range that can handle all types of
natural refrigerants
Total installed base
Alfa Laval’s installed base of heat
exchangers annually saves 5.5 TWh
of energy, while reducing CO2
emissions by 1.25 million tonnes.
This is the equivalent of cooling:
2.5 million
Singaporean homes
Service potential
If all plate heat exchangers in
refrigeration were serviced to
optimize heat transfer efficiency,
energy consumption could be
reduced by 400 GWh per – the
energy generated by:
40
Wind turbines
Imagine if…
...all refrigeration plants used
plate heat exchangers instead
of traditional technology. That
would save 628 GWh of electrical
power every year and reduce CO2
emissions by 144,000 tonnes.
That’s the equivalent of eliminating:
470
Flights between
London – Shanghai
Energy efficiency potential in petrochemicals
The chemical sector accounts for 10%
of all industrial energy consumption
Alfa Laval’s contribution
Yearly new installations
Every year, new Alfa Laval plate
heat exchangers save 900 GWh
of energy and reduce CO2 by
194 000 tonnes, compared to
traditional technologies. This is
the equivalent of heating:
90,000
European homes
Direct CO2 emissions from primary
chemical production represents 7%
of the world’s CO2 emissions
Total installed base
Alfa Laval’s total installed base of
heat exchangers in petrochemical
plants saves 19 TWh of energy
annually, while reducing CO2
emissions by 4.1 million tonnes.
That’s the equivalent of eliminating:
13,300
Flights between
London – Shanghai
Service potential
If all petrochemical plants
regularly serviced their plate
heat exchangers to optimize
heat transfer efficiency, energy
consumption could be reduced by
154 TWh per year – the same as:
32 million
Tonnes of CO2,
Equivalent to Denmark
Imagine if…
...all petrochemical plants used plate
heat exchangers from Alfa Laval
instead of traditional technologies.
Energy consumption could be
reduced by 132 TWh – the same
as saving:
28 million
Tonnes of CO2,
Equivalent to Qingdao, China
Energy efficiency potential in industrial heat pumps
More than 50% of primary energy Industrial heat pumps make it possible to reuse waste heat or
is lost as waste heat natural low temperature heat for space or industrial process heating,
eliminating the need to use fuel-fired boilers for this purpose

Alfa Laval’s contribution

Imagine if…
...all industrial boilers in Europe were replaced with efficient heat pumps.
That would save 100 TWh of energy, the same amount produced by
10,100 wind turbines, or what’s needed to heat 10 million European
homes. It would also reduce emissions by 70%. That is 18 million tonnes
of CO2 every year, or what’s produced by 220,000 heavy trucks.

10,100 220,000
Wind turbines Heavy trucks
Energy efficiency potential in data centers
Data centers are predicted to account for as much More than 35% of a data center’s
as 20% of the world’s energy use by 2025, as well energy consumption comes from
as 7% of the world’s CO2 emissions cooling the servers

Alfa Laval’s contribution

Yearly new installations
Every year, new Alfa Laval plate
heat exchangers enable free
cooling, saving 144 GWh of energy,
and reducing CO2 emissions by
33,000 tonnes. This is the equivalent
of heating:
Total installed base
Annually, Alfa Laval heat exchangers
provide a total of 530 GWh of energy
savings through free cooling in data
centers, reducing CO2 emissions by
120,000 tonnes. This is equivalent to:
Service potential
If all plate heat exchangers in the
data center industry were serviced
to optimize heat transfer efficiency,
energy consumption could be
reduced by 300 GWh per year,
saving 86,000 tonnes of CO2,
– the same as eliminating:
Imagine if…
...by 2030, all data centers utilized
the waste heat from the servers.
That would reduce CO2 emissions
by 680 million tonnes every year,
while saving a combined 3,000 TWh.
This is the equivalent of heating:

10,000 1,400 280 300 million

American homes Heavy trucks Flights between European homes
London – Shanghai
Energy efficiency potential through AHRI in district cooling
AHRI (The Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration AHRI certifies and validates thermal
Institute) administers the only third party performance performance to ensure that heat exchangers
certification program for Plate Heat Exchangers perform according to specifications

Alfa Laval’s contribution

Total installed base
The total installed base of AHRI-certified
Alfa Laval heat exchangers reduces
CO2 emissions by 215,000 tonnes
every year, compared to non-certified
technologies. They also save 459 GWh
of electrical energy, or what’s needed
annually to cool:
Service potential
If all plate heat exchangers in district
cooling were serviced to optimize
heat transfer efficiency, energy
consumption could be reduced
by 5 TWh per year, and 1.2 million
tonnes of CO2 emissions be saved
– the same as:
Imagine if…
... all heat exchangers in district
cooling used AHRI-certified heat
exchangers. That would save
164 TWh of electrical power and
eliminate 80 million tonnes of CO2
emissions, the annual energy
generated by:

210,000 14,400 16,500

Singaporean homes Heavy trucks Wind turbines
Energy efficiency potential in air conditioning
In 2019, space cooling accounted for Alfa Laval’s plate heat exchanger technology can cool
1 Gt of CO2 emissions and nearly 8.5% buildings more efficiently and enable air conditioning
of global electricity consumption systems (chillers) to consume less electrical energy

Alfa Laval’s contribution

Yearly new installations
Every year, hundreds of thousands of new Alfa Laval
plate heat exchangers are installed in air conditioning
systems, reducing CO2 emissions by 196,000 tonnes,
saving 860 GWh of electrical power annually,
compared to traditional solutions, the same amount
needed to cool:
Total installed base
With millions of heat exchangers installed
in air conditioning units, Alfa Laval supports
customers in saving 7.4 TWh of energy every
year, while reducing CO2 emissions by.

400,000 1,700,000
Singaporean homes Tonnes of CO2
Equivalent to Copenhagen
Energy efficiency potential in residential and commercial heat pumps
The building and construction sector accounts A heat pump is four times more efficient than a boiler
for 36% of global energy consumption and for heating residential and commercial buildings,
39% of global CO2 emissions enabling reduced energy consumption

Alfa Laval’s contribution

Yearly new installations
Every year, new Alfa Laval plate
heat exchangers save 300 GWh
of eletrical power and reduce
CO2 emissions by 70,000 tonnes,
compared to traditional technologies.
This the equivalent of heating:
Total installed base
Alfa Laval’s total installed base of
heat exchangers saves 29 TWh of
energy annually, while reducing CO2
emissions by 6.6 million tonnes.
That’s the equivalent of eliminating:
Imagine if…
...all boilers were replaced by heat
pumps. That would save 230 TWh
of energy annually, corresponding
to the total electricity consumption
of Spain. It would also reduce
emissions by:

27,000 24,000 43 million

Chinese homes Flights between Tonnes of CO2,
London – New York Equivalent to Madrid