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Show roadmap will establish the portfolio of near-, medium- and long-term research, development and deployment activities needed to address the challenges and opportunities identified in the vision. INDUSTRIES OF THE FUTURE AND THE COMBUSTION COMMUNITY The seven industries included in OIT's "Industries of the Future" are highly energy intensive. These industries (chemicals, petroleum refining, iron and steel, aluminum, metal casting, glass, and forest products) consume well over 8 0 % of the total energy used by U.S. manufacturers and produce over 9 0 % of its waste and air emissions. The Industries of the Future derive over 8 5 % of their energy from the combustion of fuels, as illustrated in Exhibit 1. Also shown in this exhibit is the breakout of energy used to produce steam and that used to supply process heat. Clearly, a comprehensive research plan for industrial combustion must include boilers (steam) and furnaces and heaters (process heat). OIT's seven vision industries have made excellent progress in coming up with research agendas; to date, three of the industries (aluminum, forest products and steel) have produced technology roadmaps, while several others (including glass, chemicals, and metal casting) have conducted roadmapping workshops and are in the process of preparing roadmaps. Although some of the R & D needs identified in these roadmaps are related to combustion (as shown in Exhibit 2), the emphasis of the research agendas is on process-related needs specific to the individual industries. It has become apparent, therefore, that generic and cross-cutting combustion R & D needs are not adequately being addressed. This has created the need for OIT to develop a separate vision/roadmap specifically related to combustion. APPROACH The Office of Industrial Technologies will complement the industry-specific technology roadmap efforts with a separate combustion vision and roadmap that will address more fundamental cross-cutting technology needs. While the vision/roadmap methodology to be used for combustion will be the same as used by the seven "Industries of the Future", the "combustion industry" is both smaller and less clearly defined, and a core industry constituency must be identified. The core combustion technology group is expected to consist of equipment manufacturers, industrial users, researchers, and industry associations focused on boilers, furnaces, and combustion research. The structure of the industries and companies that manufacture combustion equipment will help determine the appropriate focus areas for combustion visioning. O n e logical division is to examine boilers and furnaces separately. Boilers are more generic within industry, varying by size, type, system configuration and fuel input. Furnaces have much greater 3 |