U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Industrial Technologies Program – BestPractices
Commercial and Emerging Technologies
BestPractices is ready to help your company research and develop innovative technologies that increase efficiency, curb waste and emissions, and improve product quality. Over the past 27 years, ITP has supported approximately 600 separate research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects that have produced more than 170 technologies.
In 2004, successfully commercialized technologies resulted in energy cost savings to industry of 366 trillion Btu, approximately equivalent to $2.06 billion. By supporting research, development, and demonstrations of promising energy efficient technology, BestPractices reduces the risk for companies engaged in innovative R&D. Find out more about new commercialized and emerging technologies.
For the details on ITP's commercialized and emerging technologies, see the following:
Impacts: Industrial Technologies Program Summary of Program Results for CY2006 (PDF 4.8 MB) describes the impact, in energy savings and environmental pollution reduction, of ITP's commercialized and emerging technologies through 2006. Download Adobe Reader.
Energy Technology Solutions: Public-Private Partnerships Transforming Industry (PDF 3.7 MB) provides details on each ITP co-funded energy-efficient technology available in the marketplace today. It also presents details on emerging technologies and other resources to help industry save energy.
BestPractices helps companies engaged in R&D by:
- Working with industry to identify research priorities
- Supporting collaborative RD&D with the eight Energy Intensive Industries: aluminum, chemicals, glass, forest products, metal casting, mining, petroleum, and steel
- Providing technical assistance, system analysis tool training, and information on current and future R&D trends
- Financial assistance for technology demonstrations
In addition to the 170 emerging technologies BestPractices has helped bring to the marketplace, another 142 technologies are expected to be ready for commercialization in the next year or two. Check for new information about emerging technologies solicitations.
Agriculture
Chemicals
- Pressure Swing Adsorption for Product Recovery Forest Products (PDF 316 KB)
- Continuous Digester Control Technology (PDF 1 MB)
Metal Casting
Steel
- Electrochemical De-Zincing of Steel Scrap
- Transfer Rolls for Steel Production (PDF 270 KB)
Crosscutting Technology
- Advanced Turbine System (PDF 219 KB)
- Forced Internal Recirculation Burner (PDF 96 KB)
- In-Situ, Real-Time Measurement of Melt Constituents (PDF 116 KB)
- Solid-State Sensors for Monitoring Hydrogen (PDF 716 KB)
Mining
- Fibrous Monolithic Composites as Wear-Resistant Components (PDF 650 KB)
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Chemicals
- Affinity Ceramic Membranes with CO2 Transport Channels
- Improved Methods for the Production of Polyurethane Foam
- Process Heater Ultra-Low Excess Air Control
- P-Xylene Production with Waste Heat Powered Ammonia Absorption Refrigeration (PDF 170 KB)
Forest Products
- Black Liquor Steam Reforming/Pulsed Combustion (PDF 236 KB)
- Borate Autocausticizing (PDF 1 MB)
- Directed Green Liquor Utilization (D-Glu) Pulping (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Screenable Pressure Sensitive Adhesives (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Surfactant Spray to Improve Flotation Deinking Performance (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Use of Residual Solids from Pulp and Paper Mills for Ready-Mixed Concrete (PDF 1.1 MB)
Glass
- Advanced Oxy-Fuel-Fired Front-End System (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Optimization of On-Line Coating of Float Glass (PDF 93 KB)
Metal Casting
- Lost Foam Casting Quantifier Program (PDF 135 KB)
- RSP Tooling and Rapid Prototyping in Die Casting (PDF 128 KB)
Mining
- High-Temperature Superconductors in Underground Communications (PDF 138 KB)
- Improving Taconite Processing Plant Efficiency
Steel
- High-Quality Iron Nuggets Using a Rotary Hearth Furnace (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Life Improvement of Pot Hardware in Continuous Hot-Dipping Processes (PDF 71 KB)
- Optimization of Post-Combustion in Steelmaking (PDF 103 KB)
- Steel Foam Materials and Structures (PDF 61 KB)
- Submerged Entry Nozzles that Resist Clogging (PDF 67 KB)
Crosscutting
- Carbon Films for Next Generation Rotating Equipment Applications (PDF 1.5 MB)
- Diagnostics and Control of Natural Gas Fired Furnaces via Flame Image Analysis (PDF 589 KB)
- Diode Laser Sensor for Combustion Control (PDF 391 KB)
- Fiber-Optic Sensor for Industrial Process Measurement and Control (PDF 164 KB)
- Hybrid Integrated Model for Gas Metal Arc Welding
- Portable Parallel Beam X-Ray Difraction System (PDF 911 KB)
- High-Efficiency, Ultra-Low-Emmission, Integrated Process Heater System (PDF 292 KB)
- Super Boiler: First Generation Ultra-High Efficiency Firetube Boiler (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Tube Metal Temperature Sensor (PDF 802 KB)
- Ultra-Nanocrystalline Diamond Coatings (UNDC) (PDF 2 MB)
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