@article{25564,
  keywords = {China Energy Group, Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, International Energy Department, industrial energy efficiency, CO2 emissions, energy audit, Pulp and Paper Industry, pulp and paper, paper mill},
  author = {Lingbo Kong and Lynn K Price and Ali Hasanbeigi and Huanbin Liu and Jigeng Li},
  title = {Potential for reducing paper mill energy use and carbon dioxide emissions through plant-wide energy audits:  A case study in China},
  abstract = {<p>The pulp and paper industry is one of the most energy-intensive industries worldwide. An energy audit is a primary step toward improving energy efficiency at the facility level. This paper describes a plant-wide energy audit aimed at identifying energy conservation and carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) mitigation opportunities at a paper mill in Guangdong province, China. We describe the energy audit methods, relevant Chinese standards, methods of calculating energy and carbon indicators, baseline energy consumption and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions of the audited paper mill, and nine energy-efficiency improvement opportunities identified by the audit. For each of the nine options, we evaluate the energy conservation and associated CO<sub>2</sub> mitigation potential. The total technical energy conservation potential for these nine opportunities is 967.8 terajoules (TJ), and the total CO<sub>2</sub> mitigation potential is equal to 93,453 tonnes CO<sub>2</sub> annually, representing 14.4 percent and 14.7 percent, respectively, of the mill's total energy consumption and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions during the audit period.</p>},
  year = {2013},
  journal = {Applied Energy},
  volume = {102},
  month = {02/2013},
}