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Energy Assessment Helps Kaiser Aluminum Save Energy and Improve Productivity; DOE Software Adopted as Standard for Analyzing Plant Process Heating Systems Company-Wide

  • Rachel McKinzie Sullivan

    Research output: NLRBrochure

    Abstract

    This case study describes how the Kaiser Aluminum plant in Sherman, Texas, achieved annual savings of $360,000 and 45,000 MMBtu, and improved furnace energy intensity by 11.1% after receiving a DOE Save Energy Now energy assessment and implementing recommendations to improve the efficiency of its process heating system.
    Original languageAmerican English
    PublisherNational Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
    Number of pages4
    StatePublished - 2008

    NLR Publication Number

    • NREL/BR-840-42782

    Other Report Number

    • DOE/GO-102008-2561

    Keywords

    • aluminum
    • aluminum extrusion plant
    • case study
    • DOE
    • industrial energy efficiency
    • industrial technologies program (ITP)
    • Kaiser
    • Kaiser Aluminum
    • plant assessments
    • process heating system efficiency
    • save energy now
    • Texas

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