Savings from Process Improvement Measures.

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Status

• Review verdict: revise
• Reusable as written: no
• Issues found: citation_risk, third_party_text
• Reviewer note: References a specific U.S. DOE program that may be outdated or renamed. Requires updating the reference to current DOE resources or removing the specific program name to ensure generic usability.

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Savings from Process Improvement Measures. Analysis of savings from process improvements, including changes to process equipment, is inherently project-specific. Because of the specificity of such processes, analyzing the processes through simulations is generally not feasible. Rather, we rely on engineering analysis of the process affected by the improvements. Major factors in our engineering analysis of process savings are operating schedules and load factors. Information on these factors is developed through short-term monitoring of the affected equipment. Monitoring is done after the process change, and the data gathered on operating hours and load factors are used in engineering analysis to define “before” conditions for the analysis of savings. Where appropriate, we use a specialized analysis tool available from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program. These tools include the following:

Applicability

• Section: technical_approach (corpus label other)
• Scope: evergreen_candidate
• Observed documents: 5
• Years: 2014 to 2022
• Issuers: NIPSCO: An affiliate of NiSource Corporate Services Company (“Owner”).;NiSource Corporate Services Company (“NiSource”)
• Program types: commercial_industrial;demand_response;low_income;multifamily;portfolio;residential;small_business
• Jurisdictions: Arkansas;Indiana;Louisiana

Sources

• [F001667, paragraph:816]
• [F012483, paragraph:532]
• [F023850, paragraph:552]
• [F024491, paragraph:592]
• [F029166, paragraph:612]