Industrial Assessment Center

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Industrial Assessment Center
Seal of the Department of Energy
Agency overview
Formed	1976
Preceding Agency	Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center
Headquarters	Piscataway, New Jersey
Website	Rutgers

There are 24 Industrial Assessment Centers in the United States. These centers are located at universities across the US, and are funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to spread ideas relating to industrial energy conservation.

The centers conduct research into energy conservation techniques for industrial applications. This is accomplished by performing energy audits or assessments at manufacturers near the particular center. The IAC program has achieved of over $4.5 billion of implemented energy cost savings since its inception.^[1]

History

Industrial Assessment Centers (formerly called the Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center (EADC) program) were created by the Department of Commerce in 1976, and later moved to the DOE. The IAC program is administered through the Industrial Technologies Program under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The Centers were created to help small and medium-sized manufacturing facilities cut back on unnecessary costs from inefficient energy use, ineffective production procedures, excess waste production, and other production-related problems.^[2] Later, according to instructions from DOE, the centers are only required to focus on reducing wasted energy and increasing energy efficiency, but still regularly recommend waste reductions and productivity improvements.

Other benefits

In addition to providing technical support to small to mid-sized manufacturers through energy assessments, the IAC program offers several other important benefits. Apart from the routine energy audits which cover a broad scope of industrial settings and subsystems, the IACs provide technical material and workshops promoting energy efficiency.

IAC Database
Rutgers University maintains a large databases of energy efficiency projects in the industrial sector. The database contains recommendations from every audit completed by an IAC dating back to 1980. As of June 2009, the IAC program had finished 14,000 assessments and made over 106,000 recommendations.^[3] The database is free and open to the public.

IAC Alumni
The IAC program helps train the next generation of energy efficiency engineers. Hundreds of students participate in the program every year,^[4] and over 56% of those students pursue careers in energy or energy efficiency.^[5]

Participating universities

West	Midwest	Mid-Atlantic	Central	North East	South East
Oregon State University San Diego State University San Francisco State University University of Washington	Bradley University Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis Iowa State University University of Dayton University of Illinois at Chicago University of Michigan University of Missouri University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee	Syracuse University Lehigh University West Virginia University	Colorado State University Oklahoma State University Texas A&M University University of Louisiana at Lafayette	University of Delaware University of Massachusetts Amherst	Georgia Institute of Technology Mississippi State University North Carolina State University Tennessee Technological University East Tennessee State University University of Alabama University of Florida University of Miami

References

↑ Nimbalkar, Presentation to the Industrial Energy Technology Conference, May 15, 2009
↑ OSU IAC History
↑ DOE EERE Industrial Assessment Centers Database
↑ IAC Program Metrics
↑ IAC Alumni Fact Sheet

External links

IAC websites:
IAC Field Management Office:
- Rutgers Center for Advanced Energy Systems

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