Pre Assessment
The pre-assessment form will be provided to the client. This form generally includes:
- Size of Plant and plant layout
- Industry type (NIC code) and process description
- Production levels, units, monetary values, operating hours
- A one-year history of utility bills
- List of major energy-consuming equipment
- Senior Executive in charge of the plant operation
- Plant manager
- Energy manager
- Environmental personnel
- Maintenance personnel
- Analyze the manufacturing process
- Chart and graph utility bills
- Analyze utility bills for trends and errors; establish the unit cost of energy
- Start Plant profile
- Identify key energy systems
- Review design and other technical documentation
- Identify possible energy saving potential recommendations using the IEAC database
- Develop Assessment Strategy
Assessment
- Introduction
- History of the IEAC program, the kick-off meeting
- Distribute case studies, tip sheets
- Description of the manufacturing process and operations
- Is this a typical day?
- Run through the process following the material flow
- Discussion of inventory levels
- Questions about defects, bottlenecks, and waste materials
- Present charts and tables of utility bills
- Plant Tour
- Conduct in the direction of the material flow
- Plant Manager to conduct a tour
- Only one person will ask questions
- Conceptual tour, no data taken
- Meeting room debriefing
- Discuss the process, ask questions
- Develop and plan for the afternoon
- Create specific tasks and divide them into teams
- Review notes and brainstorm
- Develop a list of potential energy-saving opportunities
- Ensure that everyone has clarity of process and potential recommendations
- Refine the List of opportunities to be investigated
- Decide what information needs to be gathered, measured, monitored
- Assign teams to specific tasks
- Make plans to meet at the assigned time and place
- Field Data Gathering (Only in Detailed) **
-Conduct Measurements, monitoring, and diagnostic testing- Motor systems
- Heat processes
- Cooling processes
- Water Use and pumps
- Ventilation
- Compressed Air
- Delivery and distribution systems
** In case of a walk-through Assessment for any of the key details identified, field data to be gathered.
- Closure Meeting
- Discuss findings with management
- The preliminary estimate of potential savings
- List out additional information required
- Prioritize recommendations of analysis
- Communicate on the list identified in the closure meeting
- Send out the mail if required in a specific format
- Follow up over calls and emails to collect maximum data
- Collate the details and classify them as required for the analysis
Post Assessments Activities
- Conduct engineering and financial analysis
- Develop first-order estimates of implementation cost
- Deliver draft report to the client, upload data to IEAC database
- Contents of an IEAC Report
- Executive Summary including a summary of Recommendations
- Plant Description
- Process Description
- Resource Charts and Tables
- Major Energy Consuming Equipment
- Best Practices
- Description of Individual Energy-Saving Recommendations
- Follow-up and finalize Detailed Report
- Call the client within two weeks to get the feedback on the draft and discuss and mutually finalize Final Report
- Submit the Final Report to the client
- Update the data in the IEAC Database
- Follow-up Actions
- Call the client in two weeks to ensure delivery and answer any questions
- Follow up in 2-3 months for the implementation schedule of Recommendations
- Call the client in 6-9 months for implementation data
- Upload data to the IEAC database
- Inquire about the potential for a Case Study of the project(s)