Abbas Abbasi - Associated Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Ali Hasanbeigi - Post graduate student, Textile Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Abdorazaghi - Post graduate student, Textile Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Abdollah Hasanabadi - Executive manager of energy division, Shayanik Engineering Company, Tehran, Iran

The Iranian textile industry is one of the oldest industrial sectors in the country. For future planning, it is important to know the current energy index (energy consumption/production) and the energy intensity (cost of energy/energy consumption) in order to estimate future energy consumption for the textile sector. This paper, at the beginning, addresses industrial sub-sector energy consumption in Iran. Then, it highlights the energy saving potential and suggests some energy saving measures suitable for the Iranian textile industry. Finally it presents the experiences of the authors with some textile industry that indicate the energy consumption, energy cost and the relationship between the energy usage and textile production.

Energy Consumption, Energy Optimization, Energy Index, Textile Industry, Iran