MODERN TECHNOLOGY FOR CLEANER AIR

Monday, 20.02.2023.

At the award ceremony regarding the new green transition solutions, organized by UNDP in partnership with the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia, on February 20, 2023 in Belgrade, awards were presented to HBIS Serbia and other companies that proposed the best solutions for green transformation of Serbian economy, addressing the innovation challenges within the project "EU Green Agenda in Serbia". The award was accepted by Executive Director for Technical Support Zhao Kaixing on behalf of the company.

General Manager for Environmental Protection Ljubica Drake says that the company HBIS GROUP Serbia applied for funds from the EU for the first time last year through the project led by UNDP. “We have entered the competition with 4 projects, two out of which entered the acceleration process, that is, second round. A project that was immediately approved because it was ready for funding was the continuous meter alarms, which are located on the transmitters that require it. Alarms imply sound and light signalling when reaching a certain level of concentration of powdery substances in the air, and for that project, the funds we received were invested in the installation of alarm systems in the New Sinter Plant. This is the first time that the EU donation project includes the private sector, and we are the first company that received EU funds through UNDP for the implementation of projects in the field of environmental protection."

This system for continuous data collection and data processing will enable better control and management of production processes in order to reduce emissions of dust into the air. A system (Programmable Logical Controller - PLC) that will continuously process data from the 8 installed meters was introduced. Data are processed in real time, so production employees will be able to adequately react and adjust production processes in situations where legal limits may be exceeded. Additional value of this idea is that the average daily values of measured emissions from 3 meters of the New Sinter Plant will be available to the public and published every day on the company's website. Additionally, this system can be applied by other companies that have the obligation to continuously measure how many polluting particles they emit into the air, for example cement factories and thermal power plants.