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Addressing Energy Management as An Approach to Achieving Carbon Neutrality and Reducing Harmful Emissions A Course at UoB Reviews the Roadmap to Rationalizing Energy Use in Industrial Facilities
Sakhir – University of Bahrain (Yasmeen Khalaf)
12 September 2023
A course at the University of Bahrain (UoB) reviewed the roadmap to rationalizing energy use in industrial facilities, stressing the importance of energy management as an approach to achieving carbon neutrality.
The Center for Community Service and Continuing Education, in cooperation with the Department of Chemical Engineering at the College of Engineering at UoB, organized a specialized course on energy management strategies and achieving carbon neutrality, in which a number of specialists from GBF Bahrain for the Manufacture of Polyester Membranes, Enerflex Oil and Gas Services Company, and Tatweer Petroleum Company participated.
The course, which was recently held at the University over three consecutive days under the title: “Energy Management Strategies and Achieving Carbon Neutrality,” presented by the associate professor of chemical engineering, Dr. Mohammed Ali Bin Shams, and Eng. Ali Salman Baba from the Trasheed Energy Company (an energy management consultancy and renewable energy services company).
The course focused on three main axes: principles of energy management, the roadmap for energy efficiency, and energy management as an approach to achieving carbon neutrality. This is done by supporting scientific and engineering principles with real energy audits and projects implemented on the ground for renewable energy sources.
Moreover, the course addressed the concept of carbon neutrality, the role of energy management in reducing carbon emissions in their three different scopes, which local energy companies and others have recently begun to announce, and the efforts of the Kingdom of Bahrain in monitoring, measuring, and reporting on greenhouse gases, and explaining new related concepts such as carbon credit, carbon stocks, and carbon compensation.
The lecturers highlighted the importance of energy management for industrial facilities, methods for analyzing their consumption patterns, and the economics of energy management. While participants learned about energy audit mechanisms and important and common sources of energy consumption in industrial facilities. The most popular practices applied to finance energy efficiency projects and solar photovoltaic energy systems were brought to light, as one of the most promising solutions for the Kingdom of Bahrain, in addition to flexible and available financing methods.
Concluding the course, the Vice President for Community Service and Alumni Affairs, Dr. Mohammed Saleh Al-Ansari, honored the lecturers and participants in the course.
