Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Energy Efficiency Improvement in Community - Scale Whisky Industry

Name: Sakda Sittikruear

keyword: Analytic Hierarchy Process

Abstract: A policymaker always faces a decision-making problem with multiple criteria. Some problems are difficult to decide due to the complexity of the criteria. This research aims to apply the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a powerful decision-making support tool used worldwide for prioritizing energy conservation measures in a selected community-scale whisky factory and its companies. There are 4,595 community-scale whisky producers in Thailand. Most of them are in rural areas and lack engineering knowledge of equipment design and operation. The selected factory underwent an energy audit and was used for demonstration and dissemination. The energy efficiency improvement opportunities consist of 7 measures: insulation for the evaporator, heat recovery from waste water, pre- heating for fermented liquor, high efficiency evaporator, high efficiency condenser, high efficiency stove and air-fuel ratio improvement and waste water treatment for biogas production. All the measures were installations and modifications, except for biogas production due to its very high investment cost but poor returns. An estimate of the conserved energy of the modified unit with proper operation and maintenance such as rate of fuel feed into the stove, control of fuel fed during temperature raising period (before the alcohol is evaporated) and temperature maintenance period (when the alcohol evaporates), and soot removal schedule is 1,094 GJ/year and the avoided CO2 emission is 119 ton/year. The payback period of each measure ranges from 0.36 to more than 15 years. The evaluation of actual conserved energy was slightly lower due to uncontrollable moisture content in fuel and ambient condition and inconsistent behavior of operators. The AHP application showed that the owners had prioritized the high efficiency evaporator measure in the first place and biogas producing in the last one. Most of them focused on saving potential, capital and maintenance cost criteria. The barriers of AHP application in this research are so great due to low collaboration and the AHP methodology for the villagers was not easy.

King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. KMUTT Library

Address: BANGKOK

Email: info.lib@mail.kmutt.ac.th

Name: Athikom Bangviwat

Role: Advisor

Created: 2011

Modified: 2555-11-21

Issued: 2555-11-10

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CallNumber: ๋JGSEE280

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DegreeName: Master of Philosophy

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: Energy Technology

Grantor: King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi

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