Industry Partnerships

Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) works in partnership with industry to identify barriers and R&D opportunities in fuel flexibility and accelerate the deployment of fuel-flexible industrial technologies.

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Industrial Fuel Flexibility Workshop

On September 28, 2006, in Washington, DC, ITP and Booz Allen Hamilton conducted a fuel flexibility workshop with attendance from various stakeholder groups. Workshop participants included representatives from the petrochemical, refining, food and beverage, steel and metals, pulp and paper, cement and glass manufacturing industries; as well as representatives from industrial boiler manufacturers, technology providers, energy and waste service providers, the federal government and national laboratories, and developers and financiers.

The workshop provided insights into a number of the working hypotheses formed prior to the workshop about the constraints and opportunities associated with increasing the range of fuels available to industrial users, as well as introduced new and potentially significant ideas as suggested by participants. The workshop also helps DOE prioritize programmatic activities to accelerate fuel flexibility in industry.

The Analysis of Fuel Flexibility Opportunities and Constraints in the U.S. Industrial Sector – DRAFT (PDF 2.3 MB) contains the results of the workshop and Booz Allen Hamilton's analysis to determine if flexible, alternative fuel use in industry, beyond switching from natural gas to petroleum derivatives, presents a sizeable opportunity to reduce the use of natural gas.