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Luftmeister GmbH from Kirchzarten is this year's winner of the Baden-Württemberg Environmental Technology Award in the MSR/Industry 4.0 category.

Every two years, DENEFF, the umbrella organisation of German energy efficiency networks, organises a very special competition called “Perpetuum”. Here, the latest technologies that make a strong, convincing contribution to energy efficiency compete with each other.

Air energy meters in air conditioning systems at Merck

Author: Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. (TU) Jens Amberg, CEO Luftmeister GmbH

Fréderic Yvorel is responsible for energy efficiency at the French Martillac plant of the Darmstadt-based pharmaceutical group Merck. This high-tech site, also known as “Merck Biodevelopment”, develops biotechnological manufacturing processes at the highest level. Numerous clean rooms ensure suitable conditions.

The first of these, at the beginning of September, is the
Frankfurt Energy Efficiency Fair, the professional forum for industrial
energy management. Energy advisers, planning consultants, and energy
officers will be able to see how Luftmeister has extended energy
management to cover the important subjects of ambient air and process
air, including the measurement of heat flows; analysis and optimisation
of heat recovery systems; showing evidence of savings; and much else
besides.

The prize will be awarded at the “Interclima” trade fair in Paris, 6-10 November 2017.

At Biotest, Europe's biggest producer of blood plasma, a lot of large air-conditioning units serve a large number of cleanrooms. Luftmeister GmbH has installed nine measuring stations for continual monitoring of the flow of air from outside, so that it is now possible to make sure that there is always enough air flowing into the cleanrooms. At the same time it is also possible to maximise the recycling of air – with considerable savings on heating. 

Now available after years of preparation: Since January, the VDI 2077 Guideline 4 has been available as a “green paper”, which means that the use of the important medium, ambient air, can now be metered. In many situations it is now obligatory to calculate the costs of air conditioning on the basis of the volume of air used.