Implementation of energy conservation opportunities by small and medium-size manufacturers. Second phase, 1981-1983 EADC program

Technical Report · Wed Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:6512456

Kirsch, F W

This report describes and analyzes the implementation experience of 175 manufacturers with about 1000 energy conservation opportunities (ECOs) recommended to them during the second phase of the 1981 to 1983 EADC program. Overall, the manufacturers implemented, or definitely scheduled for implementation, 748 ECOs that are estimated to conserve about 73% of the conservation and 74% of the savings recommended by the EADCs. To provide an insight on the characteristics of individual ECOs that were in fact implemented is the purpose of this report. To classify the ECOs systematically and permit their analysis, the DIECO system was used (Directory of Industrial Energy Conservation Opportunities, University City Science Center). Applying the DIECO system to the 748 implemented ECOs shows a strong resemblance between what had been recommended and what was implemented. For most of the DIECO major groups, there is less than a 1% difference between recommended and implemented shares of total conservation or savings. The principal differences were in the slightly smaller buildings and grounds group and in the somewhat larger values in the combustion group and in the substitution of alternate fuels for more expensive ones.

• Research Organization: University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-78CS40091
• OSTI ID: 6512456
• Report Number(s): DOE/CS/40091-T9; ON: DE85000482
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AUDITS
BUILDINGS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
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THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES