In U.S., the Industrial sector has a share of 32% or about 32,321 trillion BTU in energy consumption in 2007. (Source: http://www.eia.gov/) Our Missouri Industrial Assessment Center with a support from U.S. Department of Energy sees the opportunity to introduce this webtools to reduce the energy intensity and carbon emissions and to achieve the goal of energy efficiency.
This webtool is developed to help plant managers, engineers, maintenence crews, and educators to reduce a waste energy in an industrial facility. This tools will help you identify a list of potential energy savings in most common areas found in small to mid-size industrial facility. The first version were modified and included here in this version. More features are introduced. Key features of this webtool are:
1. Task document style - User can browse their interest areas such as Lighting, HVAC, Process heating, Motors, Compressed air.
2. Workable spreadsheet for calculations - Some technical calculation spreadsheet can be downloaded directly from the website.
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The auditing processes can start from the audit flow chart or use the task documents to conduct the audit. The section of list of recommendations is also good place to find details and calculations to justify your savings. The recommendations are categorized by the the processes or equipment.
This web tool is designed to support your exposture to the energy processes or specific equipment in your interest. The task documents is a good start for a learner where you can find reading materials, exercise/examples, simulations, cases, presentations, audio & video, worksheet, links, best practices and link to other resources.