The director and assistant director became qualified specialists in the Process Heating Assessment Scoping Tool and the Steam System Scoping Tool, respectively. The assistant director was the Executive Director of the International Energy Technology Conference held annually. During the period of the contract, the director served on the Texas Industries of the Future (IOF) Refining and Chemicals Committee, which oversaw the showcases in 20.
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The Texas A&M University IAC pioneered the presentation of air pollution information in reports, and includes NOx and CO2 reductions due to energy savings in all reports. We visited five ESA overflow clients during FY 06. Serving clients well and promptly has been a priority. During the contract period our average time between site visit and report submittal averaged 46 days and decreased from 48 days in 2003 to 44 days in 2006. Cost savings recommended were $12.3 million and implemented savings were $5.7 million or 47%. Almost 800 (798) projects were recommended to manufacturers, and they accomplished two-thirds of the projects. Each manufacturer subsequently was surveyed, and based on these surveys reportedly implemented 79% of the more » electricity savings and 36% of the natural gas savings for an overall energy savings of 48% of recommended. Recommended annual energy savings for manufacturers were 37,400,000 kWh (127,600 MMBtu-site basis) of electricity and 309,000 MCF (309,000 MMBtu) of natural gas. The Texas A&M University Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) visited 96 manufacturing plants and spent 101 days in those plants during the contract period from August 9, 2002, through November 30, 2006. Energy equivalent to over 75,000 barrels of oil was conserved. This project benefited the public by assisting manufacturing plants in the United States to save costly energy resources and become more profitable. The national offshore wind turbine blade research facility developed in the project has been used to support the technical and training tasks planned in the program to accomplish their goals, and it is a national asset which is available for used by domestic and international researchers in the wind energy arena.
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These students and researchers are now employed by the wind industry, national labs and universities to support the US and international wind energy industry. The educational program have trained many graduate and undergraduate students and post-doctoral level researchers to learn critical science and engineering of wind energy production systems through graduate-level courses and research, and participating in various projects in center’s large multi-disciplinary research. The results of the research advance current understanding of many important scientific issues and provide technical information for solving future large wind turbines with advanced design, composite materials, integrated manufacturing, and structural reliability and integrity. To achieve the goals of the project, the following technical tasks were planned and executed during the period from Apto Octoat the University of Houston: (1) Basic research on large offshore wind turbine systems (2) Applied research on innovative wind turbine rotors for large offshore wind energy systems (3) Integration of offshore wind-turbine design, advanced materials and manufacturing technologies (4) Integrity and reliability of large offshore wind turbine blades and scaled model testing (5) Education and training of graduate and undergraduate students and post- doctoral researchers (6) Development of a national offshore wind turbine blade research facility The research program addresses both basic science and engineering of current and future large wind turbine systems, especially offshore wind turbines, for MW-scale power generation. The goals of the project are to: (1) establish a sound scientific/technical knowledge base of solutions to critical science and engineering issues for developing future MW-scale large wind energy production systems, (2) develop a state-of-the-art wind rotor blade research facility at the University of Houston, and (3) through multi-disciplinary research, introducing technology innovations on advanced wind-turbine materials, processing/manufacturing more » technology, design and simulation, testing and reliability assessment methods related to future wind turbine systems for cost-effective production of offshore wind energy. The DOE-supported project objectives are to: establish a national wind energy center (NWEC) at University of Houston and conduct research to address critical science and engineering issues for the development of future large MW-scale wind energy production systems, especially offshore wind turbines.