THE BENEFITS OF TRIGENERATION IN THE SELF-SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF PASTA FOOD

In many industries, where margins are tight, business sustainability increasingly comes through optimizing the resources used in transformation processes. One of the most significant and ever-present factors is energy consumption, where initiatives to reduce consumption are for Barilla structured on the basis of direct impact analysis, indirect impact, defining an organic plan of improvement, and up grade of the assets that participate in the transformation process.
Pivotal point is the focus on Energy Self-Production plants ( Electric and Thermal) that since 2005 has seen Barilla participating in the management of self-production plants, in the sites of Foggia, Parma, Caserta.
More recently, for the Foggia Plant, the analysis and evaluation of Trigeneration ( Electric-Thermal and Refrigeration Energy ) of recent technology has been undertaken, identifying and installing a trigeneration plant with a 4.7MWe Kawasaki turbine, 7MWt HRG and a 1.4MWf York Absorber, which has led to the achievement of very important sustainability results:

1. Reduced environmental impact: -6.9 ktCO2/a compared to energy from the market (-38%)
2.  Increased plant flexibility in case of changes in production volumes as well as several results of improved economic efficiency of the plant.

BIO

SABINO PIUMELLI

Technical Area Manager Barilla Foggia Plant   

- Graduated in Electrical Engineering from Bari Polytechnic University, in 1993.

- In Barilla since 1985, in the Plant Maintenance area of the Foggia plant.

- From 1987 to 1988 he worked in Technical Development Barilla Parma, in Electrical and Automation area, contributing to the birth of the first PLC controller process lines. 

- From 1988 to 1994 he served as Maintenance Manager of the Foggia plant.

- From 1995 to 1998 he held the role of Plant Engineering taking care of Investments on two plants Foggia and Matera.

- From 1999 to 2006 he held the role of Plant Engineering of the Foggia plant, participating in the plant expansion, design and start-up phases of prototype size plants, bringing the Foggia site to have a capacity of 247 thousand tons with equipment and tools from the latest robotic and computer technologies.

- From 2006 to 2024 he plays the role of Technical Area Manager of the Foggia plant, managing the Maintenance part of all production assets, adopting Preventive-Predictive maintenance criteria with structured methods, he also manages all site investments and collaborates with Technical Development Barilla Parma on all strategic functional projects for the site. From 2013 to 2023, it managed in total autonomy electric and thermal energy self-generation plant to fully support support the productive cycles.