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Title	Future Industrial Combustion: A Vision of Improved Productivity and Product Quality
Creator	Varga, Gideon M. Jr.
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date	1997
Spatial Coverage	presented at Chicago, Illinois
Abstract	The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) has shifted from a "technology push" focus to an industry "market pull" focus, adopting a strategy termed the "Industries of the Future". As part of this strategy, OIT facilitates a process in which the industries develop for themselves a strategic "vision" of their desired future, and a "technology roadmap" to help achieve this vision. This process enables each industry to identify and prioritize its collective technology needs. OIT's Combustion Program has chosen to use this same "visioning" and "roadmapping" strategy to formulate its future direction and research course. For industrial combustion, three sets of visions and roadmaps will be established, one each for combustion/burners, boilers and furnaces/heaters. By addressing these industry segments, this approach recognizes the close link between heat source and heat sink. Each vision will specify the industry's key technical and market performance targets and discuss the principal technical, market, business, regulatory and societal drivers potentially impacting the future of the industry. In so doing, the visions will set strategic technology objectives and identify the major challenges to be faced. With visions established, each technology roadmap will identify the milestones for achieving the goals articulated in the vision. The roadmap will identify current technologies, technological barriers to achieving the industry's goals, and technology options and pathways that would enable the industry to overcome these barriers. It will list the technical requirements and set technical priorities, thereby establishing a research agenda of prioritized R, D & D needs. In short, the roadmap will establish the portfolio of near-, medium- and long-term research, development and deployment activities to address the challenges and opportunities identified in the vision. Emphasis will be placed on improving efficiency and productivity, the minimization of environmental impact and the enhancement of product quality. Both the vision and the roadmap will be formulated by appropriate individuals from the burner, boiler and furnace communities, with facilitation provided by DOE. This presentation summarizes the approach to vision and roadmap formulation.
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OCR Text	Show Exhibit 1. Industry-Specific Combustion Requirements Energy Inputs (trillion Btus) Industrial Sector Forest Products SIC 26 Chemical SIC 28 Petroleum Refining SIC 29 Glass SIC 3211, 3221, 3229, 3296 Aluminum SIC 3334, 3353 Metal Casting SIC 3321 Steel SIC 3312 Total Inputs of Energy for Heat, Power, and Electricity Generation (a) 2,472 (b) 3,040 2,987 (d) 230 (e) 312 250 (f) 1,569 (g) Boiler fuel (Indirect heating, electrical generation) 2,048 1,518 883 11 4 6 355 Fuel fired directly for Process Heating 149 993 1,872 173 55 168 1,051 Combustion as % of Total Energy, % 90.4 82.6 92.2 80.0 18.9 69.6 89.6 Source unless noted differently in footnotes: Manufacturing Consumption of Energy 1991. December 1994, Energy Information Administration. Data assembled by Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. (a) Includes all energy sources used to produce heat and power and to generate electricity, whether produced offsite or onsite (but not the generation waste). It excludes all energy sources used as raw materials or for other nonfuel purposes. (b) Boiler fuel use includes 1,257 trillion Btus fired by renewable fuels all assumed to be used in boilers. © The Chemical industry figures included 614 trillion Btus fired by alternative fuels (not-natural gas, fuel oil, or coal). This "other" fuel source w a s assumed to be allocated 5 0 % in direct fired applications and 5 0 % in indirect (boiler) applications. (d) Petroleum refining includes 1,869 trillion Btus fired by alternative fuels (nominally by -product fuel waste gas and petroleum coke). This "other" fuel source was assumed to be allocated 7 5 % in direct fired applications and 2 5 % in indirect (boiler) applications. (e) Based on source data for the flat container, and fiberglass sectors. An energy estimate for the pressed and blown sector w a s m a d e by taking a ratio from earlier data assembled by P N L in 1986 and updating to present. (f) Metal casting cuts across SIC codes, an average has been assumed based on data supplied from EIA, American Foundrymen's Association, and the DOE-OIT Metal Casting Vision Study. (g) The steel industry figures include 978 trillion Btus fired by alternative fuels (nominally by product fuels of blast furnace and coke oven gas). This "other" fuel source w a s assumed to be allocated 7 5 % in direct fired applications and 2 5 % in indirect (boiler) applications. 6
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