DOE Invests $30 Million in Energy-Efficient R&D.The Dept. of Energy's Office of Industrial Technology (DOE-OIT) plans to invest $30 million over 3 years in 75 new energy-saving industrial partnerships, including projects to benefit metalcasters. DOE-OIT will share the cost of most of these projects with universities, research institutions, more than 150 private companies and national laboratories. The National Industrial Competitiveness through Energy, Environment, and Economics (NICE3) program is a cost-sharing project to promote energy efficiency, clean production, and economic competitiveness in industry. The grant program provides funding to state and industry partnerships (large and small business) for projects that develop and demonstrate advances in energy efficiency and clean production technologies. As part of the NICE3 Program, the following projects were approved: * "Improvement of the Lost Foam Casting Process;" New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Energy Research and Development Authority, Albany, New York For other uses, see Albany. Albany is the capital of the State of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany lies 136 miles (219 km) north of New York City, and slightly to the south of the juncture of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers. , and General Motors Corp., Pontiac, Michigan; funding: $525,000; * Commercial Demonstration of an Improved Magnesium Thixomolding Process;" Michigan Energy Div., Lansing, Michigan, and Thixomat, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan  “Ann Arbor” redirects here. For other uses, see Ann Arbor (disambiguation). Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. ; funding: $484,000. The Inventions and Innovation (I&I) program provides financial assistance at two levels (up to $40,000 or up to $200,000) for conducting early development and establishing technical performance of innovative, energy saving ideas and inventions. The following projects were approved in the I&I Program: * "Lost Foam Casting Quantifier (logic) quantifier - An operator in predicate logic specifying for which values of a variable a formula is true. Universally quantified means "for all values" (written with an inverted A, LaTeX \forall) and existentially quantified means "there exists some value" (written with a Program;" Industrial Analytics Corp., Oak Ridge, Tennessee Oak Ridge is an incorporated city in Anderson and Roane Counties in East Tennessee, about 25 miles northwest of Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 27,387 people at the 2000 census. ; funding: $110,100; * "Cupola cupola /cu·po·la/ (koo´pah-lah) cupula. cu·po·la n. A cup-shaped or domelike structure. cupola cupula. Furnace Computer Process Model;" S. Katz Assoc., Inc., Oakland, Michigan; funding: $200,000; * Development of a High-Frequency Eddy-Current Separator;" EMPS EMPS European Workshop on Mobile/Personal Satcoms EMPS Electric Model Plane Stuff EMPS Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator EMPS Electronic Media Production Service EMPS Equipment Monitoring and Performance Station EMPS Emergency Mobilization Preparedness Board Corp., Salt Lake City; funding: $199,000. As part of DOE-OIT's Best Practices initiative, aluminum caster Amcast, Wapakoneta, Ohio, was one of seven companies to receive funding for a plant-wide assessment to identify potential energy savings. Based on the assessment, improvements in electrical, lighting, motordrive, compressed air and process heating systems were identified. Once these suggestions are implemented, the foundry expects to save $600,000 annually. |
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