A partnership for innovative digital solutions to save energy and reduce emissions

Microsoft has partnered up with Alfa Laval to create new innovative and digital solutions that maximize energy efficiency to make sure that heat exchangers run optimally. This can potentially reduce global carbon emissions by up to 2.5 percent. Our heat exchangers play a massive role in limiting global carbon emissions by reducing energy use. More than 40% of the global emission reductions needed by 2040 will come from reducing our energy use*, and heat exchangers can help us do just that. Every year, Alfa Laval instal and service millions of heat exchangers, reducing capacity needs by 100GW.That is enough to prevent 50 million tonnes of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere, or the amount of carbon emitted by Sweden every year. “The heat exchangers play an extremely important part in abating the climate crisis, because they are actually everywhere,” says Madeleine Gilborne, Head of Clean Technologies, and Vice President of the Energy Division at Alfa Laval. We are always looking for new ways to improve and find new innovative solutions.. In partnership with Microsoft we have delivered a new energy saving solution. Our heat exchangers may lose efficiency over time if they are not maintained properly, and this can lead to a significant increase in energy use. Today, up to 2.5% of the world’s CO2 emissions could be prevented if heat exchangers performed optimally and were serviced regularly. If it was easier for our customers to maintain their heat exchangers, less energy would be wasted in this way. By working with Microsoft we have been able to create digital solutions to this problem. For example, Microsoft has developed software that uses a thermal recognition camera and an AI function to detect heat signatures around a heat exchanger. This picture is then immediately uploaded to Alfa Laval’s database, and the software automatically suggests actions from our experts that make sure that the heat exchanger returns to optimal efficiency. This makes it easier for our customers to maintain their heat exchangers themselves, saving them energy, time, and money. “That is the foundation of our partnership - to digitize intelligence,” says Christoffer Sundgren, Senior Industry Executive at Microsoft. To learn more about our work in energy efficiency, tune in to the We Don’t Have Time COP27 broadcast on November 11th. Find the program here: https://wedonthavetime.org/cop27 Read Microsoft’s customer story about this partnership: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1554336748749111219-alfa-laval-discrete-manufacturing-azure-en-sweden *https://www.iea.org/commentaries/how-energy-efficiency-will-power-net-zero-climate-goals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42fATIgI3L8