ENERGY FLOWS. Loccioni presents Smart Leaf and Smart Carbon At Ecomondo 2012
Thanks to Smart Leaf and Smart Carbon projects, Loccioni enhances its commitment towards the research of the best solutions for the production, the management and the use of renewable energy thus collecting the challenge of regenerating the non renewable energy production processes.
Planning the smart town, taking care of the environment is mainly dealing with its energy flows, through data acquisition, measurement and communication. Loccioni transforms these data into value, thus optimizing and making such flows smart and performing.
If it is true that energy production from renewable diffused sources is constantly increasing , it may be also true that the one coming from fossil sources will go on implementing the development of our cities and societies. Such processes, despite polluting the environment, can be regenerated and their impact reduced and controlled , by using smart technologies distributed all along the energy flow.
Thanks to Smart Leaf and Smart Carbon projects, Loccioni enhances its commitment towards the research of the best solutions for the production, the management and the use of renewable energy thus collecting the challenge of regenerating the non renewable energy production processes.
Smart Leaf
Leaf Community becomes Smart: the first eco-sustainable Italian community realized by Loccioni in 2008 today becomes the first example of real and working micro-grid. As a matter of fact, two important points so far missing have been developed and implemented: accumulation systems and energy flows smart management.
In partnership with Samsung SDI, Loccioni has developed Firefly energy accumulation system which , installed in the Leaf Community some months ago, is demonstrating how it is possible to reach energy independence. The collaboration and interest of the Korean giant represent an important opportunity not only for Loccioni but also for all Italian players of energy market.
Renewable energy production, efficiency improvement, energy accumulation are not enough to create a smart grid: with myLeaf system – the smart community brain, it is possible to see how buildings energy flows and industrial plants are measured and managed in real time, thus creating the smart connection between production and consumption.
Smart Carbon
In speaking about a Smart City it is often common to refer to an ideal situation, to best practice and excellent ideas but the real city is also composed of elements which are not yet sustainable. Among these, energy production processes from fossil sources, such as carbon, on which we still depend for the 82% at an international level: the real challenge is to work in order to make energy production processes from fossil sources less polluting.
Such processes can be regenerated by monitoring the flows in order to drastically reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere. From this, the Smart Carbon project thanks to which Loccioni fulfils its own commitment in making energy production from fossil fuels more efficient. Through measurement and automation competences carbon emissions of polluting processes are reduced and constantly checked and crucial points of the process optimized to reduce waste and increase competitiveness.
For example in carbon plants Powder and Cineris solutions – developed in collaboration with ENEL – allow to check the quality respectively of coal fines and of unburned ashes, thus improving the quality of combustion and remarkably reducing the dangerous emissions.
Analysing and measuring energy production and consumption flows, both renewable or coming from fossil sources, to guarantee its quality, efficiency and consumptions optimisation: the environmental challenge recalls us on different ways, but converging into the common goal of totally reducing the environmental impact and improving life comfort and quality.
