A Systematic Effort to Promote Best Practices in Industrial Energy Efficiency

Bin Wu and Sanjeev Khanna, Missouri Industrial Assessment Center
Dan Medley and Jimmy Story, Missouri Enterprise

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This paper describes how a systematic effort is being carried out at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU), to promote best practices in industrial energy efficiency and productivity improvements. In particular, it illustrates how the activities of a newly established Missouri Industrial Assessment Center (U.S. Department of Energy, IAC Program) in the MU College of Engineering can be logically integrated with the university, the state agencies, the MU Extension, and the major utilities in the state, to:

Promote best practice in industry by conducting regional outreach seminars.
Utilize the synergy resulting from its partnerships with MU Extension and the MEP (Manufacturing Extension Partnership, U.S. Department of Commerce) program, jointly to offer and deliver a more comprehensive range of business services and solutions to small and medium manufacturers, to help them become Lean in terms of both operational productivity and energy consumption.
Develop a computer-aided energy audit book, and an on-line course as a training and auditing tool for both university students and manufacturing organizations.