{"id":40657,"date":"2016-11-15T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=40657"},"modified":"2016-11-15T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T23:15:13","slug":"uwms-energy-conservation-program-industry-renewed-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwms-energy-conservation-program-industry-renewed-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"UWM\u2019s energy conservation program for industry renewed through 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With backing from the U.S. Department of Energy, UWM has offered free energy assessments to nearly 100 small and medium-sized industrial companies in the last five years, making recommendations that could save them more than $7.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Department has recently renewed a grant supporting UWM\u2019s Industrial Assessment Center for another five years. The IAC is operated by students in the College of Engineering &amp; Applied Science who devise strategies for industries to improve their\u00a0energy efficiency and reduce utility costs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40658\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40658 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2016\/11\/IAC.renew3-300x200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Carlisle Interconnect Technologies manager Paul Smyczek leads engineering students and faculty member Chris Yuan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, on a tour of the plant as part of an assessment of this manufacturer to help save energy and reduce or recycle waste materials.  Yuan heads the Industrial Assessment Center at UWM, which is funded by the US Department of Energy. It is the largest of the 24 such centers in the nation. It's aim is two-fold -- to help industries and give college students experience in working with industries on energy issues.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two graduate students and Professor Chris Yuan (second from left) get a tour of the CarlisleIT plant from employee Paul Smyczek. (Photo by Alan Magayne-Roshak)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UWM\u2019s center, the only one in Wisconsin, is one of 28 receiving Department of Energy funding through 2021.<\/p>\n<p>An assessment\u2019s recommendations could reduce a plant\u2019s utility bills by anywhere from 5 to 30 percent, depending on which strategies are implemented, said Chris Yuan, a professor of mechanical engineering who heads the center.<\/p>\n<p>If all of the 93 companies assessed in the last five years executed the students\u2019 advice, Yuan added, the annual energy savings would have been 47 million kilowatt hours. The annual reduction of carbon emissions would have been 64,000 tons, equivalent to taking more than 12,000 cars off the road for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Companies that carry out recommendations typically have return on their investment in less than two years, although it could be as short as a few months, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Training students in the growing field of industrial energy-system assessment is another Industrial Assessment Center priority. Since 2012, 33 engineering students have participated and 20 of them have earned the Department of Energy\u2019s certificates on energy assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With backing from the U.S. Department of Energy, UWM has offered free energy assessments to nearly 100 small and medium-sized industrial companies in the last five years, making recommendations that could save them more than $7.7 million. 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