Several vendors have come together to optimize a transportation route for baggage handling at Copenhagen Airports. The project, which is an experiment in environmental technologies, are funded by Copenhagen Airports, and it will now be used as a showcase for other companies wishing to reduce their energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
Copenhagen Airport approx. 700 conveyor belt for transporting baggage. Most are stored in the cellars below the terminals, but in 2009 chose the airport to get the ribbon energy to light; conveyor belts using much power and is virtually always in operation, though need not always equal. This is obviously great potential for energy savings just by a different management philosophy.
One of the bottlenecks in baggage handling at Copenhagen Airports, the two conveyors between terminals 2 and 3 If one band goes down, there is not enough capacity to get your luggage through on time. Therefore selected project manager in Copenhagen Airports, Carsten Seiler, to launch an upgrade of one band which simultaneously show the world how effective and power efficient, you can carry luggage on conveyor belts.

Testing the market’s technology

‘We wanted to see what the future may bring, using the absolute most energy-efficient solutions. It was also our contribution to COP15, to investigate its own potential for saving energy,’ says Carsten Seiler. He contacted two of the airport’s standard of living running ears: SEW-Eurodrive supplying gear and engines, and Forbo Seigling producing conveyor belts. They were free to bid into the market’s most energy-efficient technology.
Forbo Siegling help with a newly designed conveyor, which was originally developed for the treadmills in gyms. The ribbon is both robust and has a special surface on the underside as the interface to the carrier slide surfaces and with minimal friction.
“We know from other installations at such Post Denmark and companies in the U.S. that such ties can reduce energy consumption significantly. At the airport, we are coming up on 26 percent reduction,” says Frank Vognsen from Forbo Siegling, who delivered the tapes.

Increasing interest in environmental technology

A similar saving could SEW-Eurodrive contribute. By choosing motors, gearboxes and frequency of recent energy saving types (Movigear) could very power savings. A simple and accurate sizing of engine sizes have resulted in a significant reduction in energy – a total reduction of approximately 30 percent compared to the old plant. Sales Engineer Mark Hylsberg have replaced a total of nine engines and older worm:
“This is the first time in Denmark that we have had the opportunity to go as radical approach, as in the project at the airport, but we expect that will happen much in this area. Customers demand increasingly eco-friendly solutions and there are new regulations on the road, which from 2011 will tighten the requirements for motors in general. ”

Demand controlled operation through the facility management

Besides the moving component upgrade is made changes to the governance of the specimens. By use of data from sensors stop bands when there is no baggage.
“Overall, we save now 55 per cent. In addition, the project has resulted in lower heat and less noise, which is a great benefit to employees who work in the basement. The project has shown us and the world that it can be do to save significantly on power consumption. From a purely economic perspective, it would not pay to replace well-functioning, existing bands. But with the import of green technology in the planned new installations, we will continuously reduce energy consumption and costs considerably across the board , “says Carsten Seiler.
Several companies are working in these years to optimize their internal transport systems. Gatwick Airport has such savings up to 45 percent energy consumption alone by switching to better engines and gearboxes, and Coca Cola in Austria has reduced energy consumption on the conveyor belt as much as 75 percent.