Analyzing Facility Energy Use: A Balancing Act

Authors

  • Klaus-Dieter E. Pawlik Energy Consultant
  • Lynne C. Capehart JD Energy Consultant
  • Barney L. Capehart Ph.D., CEM University of Florida

Abstract

When you do an energy audit, you must have a good understand-
ing of how the energy is used by a facility to make sure that your
energy efficiency recommendations are accurate and appropriate. You
must know what equipment uses energy, how much energy it uses
and how much energy it uses as a proportion of the total energy used
at the facility. You can do this by monitoring the energy use of all the
major pieces of equipment, but this is quite expensive and time-con-
suming. In this article, Part I, we discuss an alternative way for you to
estimate the energy use by developing an ENERGY BALANCE. This
method is particularly helpful if you have limited time to gather the
energy use data.

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Author Biographies

Klaus-Dieter E. Pawlik , Energy Consultant

Klaus Pawlik is a consultant with Accenture, working in the utilities industry. He is the author of the Solution Manual which accompanies the Guide to Energy Management, Third Edition. Additionally, Klaus spoke on the topic of ÒAnalyzing Facility Energy UseÑA Balancing ActÓ at the World Energy Engineering Congress 2000. He holds a master of business administration and a bachelor of science in industrial and systems engineering, graduating with highest honors from the University of Florida.

While at the University of Florida, Klaus worked in the Industrial Assessment Center, leading teams of undergraduate and graduate students performing energy and waste minimization, audits and providing productivity improvement assessments for manufacturing facilities.

Additionally, for two years, he assisted Dr. Barney Capehart with teaching industrial energy management.

Before attending the University of Florida, Klaus served six years in the United States Navy, where he worked as an electrical operator on nuclear power plants. For two of those years, he served as an instructor training personnel on the electrical operations for nuclear power plants.

Lynne C. Capehart, JD Energy Consultant

Lynne C. Capehart, BS, JD, is a consultant in energy policy and energy efficiency, and resides in Gainesville, FL. She received a BS with highest honors in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma, and a JD with honors from the University of Florida College of Law. She is coauthor of FloridaÕs Electric Future: Building Plentiful Supplies with Conservation; the co-author of numerous papers on PURPA and cogeneration policies; and the co-author of numerous papers on commercial and industrial energy efficiency. She was project coordinator for the University of Florida Industrial Assessment Center from 1992 to 1999. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Phi Sigma.

Barney L. Capehart, Ph.D., CEM University of Florida

Barney L. Capehart, Ph.D., CEM, is a professor emeritus of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. He has broad experience in the commercial/industrial sector having served as the founding director of the University of Florida Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center/Industrial Assessment Center from 1990 to 1999. He personally conducted more than 100 audits of industrial and manufacturing facilities, and has helped students conduct audits of hundreds of office buildings, small businesses, government facilities, and apartment complexes. He regularly taught a University of Florida course on energy management, and currently teaches energy management seminars around the country for the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE). He is a Fellow of IEEE, IIE and AAAS, and a member of the Hall of Fame of AEE. He is the co-author of Guide to Energy Management, author of the chapter on energy management for the Handbook of Industrial Engineering, and wrote the chapter on energy auditing for the Energy Management Handbook.

References

Capehart, Barney L. and Capehart, Lynne C. “Improving Industrial

Energy Audit Analyses,” Proceedings of the ACEEE Energy Effi-

ciency in Industry Conference, Grand Island NY, Summer 1995.

MotorMaster and the Motor Challenge, http://

mm3.energy.wsu.edu/mmplus

Capehart, Barney, “Equipment Load Factors, Use Factors and Di-

versity Factors as well as a General Discussion of Energy Audit

Procedures,” http://www.ise.ufl.edu/capehart/papers/

diversity.doc, 2000.

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Published

2023-09-30

How to Cite

Pawlik , K.-D. E. ., Capehart, L. C. ., & Capehart, B. L. . (2023). Analyzing Facility Energy Use: A Balancing Act . Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment, 21(2), 8–33. Retrieved from https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/SPEE/article/view/20393

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2001: Vol 21 Iss 2 2001-2002

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Articles