Cement- Labor-Energy Surveys

The US and Canadian Labor-Energy Input Survey for the years 2000 and 2007 has been added to the green folder in the tub. Tables included for the US cement industry: energy consumption, energy distribution, waste fuel summary, energy distribution chart, etc.

Glass- Recyling

Article: "US glassmakers promote recycling: trade group in three-prong attack to improve glass re-use"

Petroleum- Richmond Refinery

Here's an article about a recent ruling regarding Chevron's proposed Hydrogen Renewal Project at the Richmond refinery:

http://www.ktvu.com/news/19520513/detail.html

And some perspectives from the various parties:

Communities for a Better Environment: http://www.cbecal.org/campaigns/Chevron.html

Chevron: http://www.chevron.com/products/sitelets/richmond/renewal/

New Hold Shelf Materials

We have placed some congressional materials (hearings, etc.) that could be very helpful for Part II on the ENVS 140 hold shelf (the carts near the reserved tables).

Fuel Flexibility Reports

The Department of Energy's Industrial Technology Program website has two reports on fuel and feedstock flexibility. Both reports have information about fuel switching opportunities in the industrial sector, including information on specific industrial equipment (boilers, process heaters, etc.) suitable for fuel switching. I have put the link to these reports in the Part II section of the wiki under the heading "Alternative Energy & Energy Efficiency."

Energy Profiles

The Dept. of Energy has developed profiles for several energy intensive industries. These industries are: Aluminum, Fertilizers (both Nitrogenous and Phosphatic as Agricultural Chemicals), Glass, Paper and Pulp (grouped together as Forest Products), Petroleum Refining, Plastic (chemical industry), and Steel.
This resource is C.3: Industrial Technologies Program: Energy Intensive Industries in your product folders.
To find supplemental information on alternative energy sources from this site, click on the first link under C.3 and then click on "Energy Analysis" in the left sidebar of the resulting page. The report entitled "Energy and Environmental Profile" (of your industry) may be especially useful.

-Jess

Fuel Switchability and other MECS tables

Some of you have already discovered tables 10.1 - 10.13. Go ahead and use these (table 10.10 is probably the most useful table, since it relates to coal). Note that these tables are presented in short tons. You will need to convert these figures to percentages OR use this conversion calculator to obtain BTUs.

This information is also listed in your Product Folder under D.7:
Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey. (See C.1 above for citation information.)

* Online: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/mecs/mecs2002/data02/shelltables.html
o 2002: Fuel Switching — Tables 10.1 thru 10.13.

Fuel Switchability

To find data on fuel switchability for Part I of your Brief, take a look at the MECS data for your product (C.1, 2002 table 5.2 end use). This table shows detail about how the energy is used both in the manufacturing process as well as in running the facility. This will tell you how many BTU's can be (or should be) switched from at least one dirty fuel to a cleaner one. (For example, switching from coal to natural gas).

Essentially, you need to consider how much of the energy used in making your product is derived from a "dirty" energy source.

Part II of your Brief will ask you to estimate the cost of switching to a cleaner fuel, or in other words - purchasing an equivalent amount of energy from a cleaner source. To obtain cost figures use the EIA site at http://www.eia.doe.gov/. You will need to explore this site. For example Natural Gas Prices can be found at http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/ng/ng_pri_sum_dcu_nus_m.htm Be sure to use the figures for Industrial Price to determine the cost per unit.

Pulp: Data Sheet 3 Carbon Dioxide

For everyone doing pulp:

You will need to use D.3.2 to get your figure for Carbon Dioxide. Unfortunately, the data is only available at the 3 digit NAICS level.

Data Sheet 3: Revised Key Posted & Tips

I have posted the revised Answer Key for Data Sheet 3 to the wiki. If we have found a resource that gives product specific data for a given pollutant, I recommend revising your numbers using the new resource to make them more accurate.

I also wanted to share the following tips that are applicable to most products:

Data in D.2/A.1 is given as a rate (generally pounds of pollutant per ton of product produced; but always be sure to check the units).

D.3.2 contains product specific data only for 2002. Data for prior years is given at a 3 digit NAICS level (so incredibly broad).

D.4 contains data only for 2002 and 1998. Data is given in Gg which is equivalent to 1000 metric tons.

Some of the chemicals listed in D.5 might be considered VOCs/TOCs and therefore included in D.1 or D.2/A.1 VOC/TOC data.