Study of industrial energy assessments for different sectors

Over 130 industrial energies, waste and productivity assessments were implemented by The Industrial Assessment Center at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WM-IAC), $11 million of energy and operational savings with about 1100 recommendations were also recommended ever since it was re-established in 2011. This research analyzes the assessments, and the recommendations performed over only 4 years, 2015 to 2018 with respect to their Sectors. The Standard Industrial Code (SIC) and the groups of Energy Efficiency have a hierarchical, top-down structure that begins with general characteristics and narrows down to the specifics. The first two digits of the code represent the major industry sector to which a business belongs. The third and fourth digits describe the sub-classification of the business group and specialization, respectively. All assessments were implemented for small & medium sized facilities that belong to the manufacturing industries with SIC codes ranging from 2000 to 3999. In this research, assessments will be classified based on the SIC codes with recommendations analysis for each classification to get a better idea of what recommendations were suggested in each major industrial sector. Additionally, this research could be considered as a guide for energy engineers and other personnel involved in the energy assessment process. The information investigated can give a better prediction for composing better energy demanding industries and minimizing energy consumption. During these four years, more than 61 assessments were conducted by visiting different manufacturing facilities and analyzing the data gathered and processed.