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

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    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
    Number of pages4
    StatePublished - 2008

    NREL 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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