Energy Efficiency Manual provides readers with proven methods for improving their energy efficiency and reducing their utility costs
Now available from American Technical Publishers, the Energy Efficiency Manual provides readers with proven methods for improving their energy efficiency and reducing their utility costs.
This manual is the most complete resource for finding energy efficiency improvements.
Readers will learn how to save the most energy in all types of businesses, institutions, industrial plants, factories, farms, and homes.
They will learn how to cut their energy costs and protect the environment while improving comfort, safety, and reliability.
The comprehensive step-by-step guide is designed to help the reader manage their activities effectively and with confidence.
The Energy Efficiency Manual organises the entire field of energy efficiency using 400 logically grouped measures, with hundreds of examples and illustrations.
Each measure is a self-contained, hands-on guide to one specific method of saving energy and reducing utility costs.
Each measure supplies the information needed to plan the activity efficiently and accomplish it successfully.
The measures have a standard format that makes it easy to organise them into an optimum efficiency programme for any facility.
The summary section highlights aspects of the measure that place it in perspective within an overall efficiency program, while the text of the measure explains the who, what, where, when, how, and why. Innovative ratings and graphic features for each measure guide the reader quickly to the best efficiency improvements for their particular situation.
These include an economics section that rates the measure in terms of three primary financial criteria: savings potential, cost, and payback period.
The ratings section suggests the priority that the measure deserves in an overall energy conservation program in a typical situation for new facilities, retrofit, or operations and maintenance.
The selection scorecard rates the financial and human factors that are most important for deciding whether to exploit the measure in an application.
The selection scorecard provides scores for savings potential, rate of return, reliability, and ease of initiation.
Each measure also includes a valuable traps and tricks section to alert the reader to factors that threaten success and gives hints for getting it right the first time.
The reader gets tips gained from practical experience that minimise effort, save cost, and help keep the measure effective in the long term.
Important background information for the measures is found in the reference notes section.
Reference notes broaden the reader's knowledge of utility rates, high-efficiency motors, variable-speed drives, refrigerants, lighting technology, energy management computers, people sensors, and many other vital subjects.
The reference notes section supports the measures with additional explanations that may be more basic or more advanced than the working information in the measures.
The reader can also read each reference note by itself for a concise overview of an important energy conservation topic.
Measures are grouped into sections and subsections that correspond to types of energy systems or to energy waste in specific components.
This allows the reader to quickly identify whole groups of measures that may or may not apply to their facility.
The manual is also organised to make it easier to accomplish groups of related measures together.
This avoids duplication of efforts, saves money in contracting, and produces a better overall system.
The Energy Efficiency Manual provides experts with the detail they want and beginners with the information they need.
Anyone who uses energy, pays for utilities, controls energy usage, designs and builds, or is interested in energy and environmental preservation will benefit from this book.
Business owners and managers will learn how to lower their energy bills.
Homeowners will be able to select better appliances and purchase more efficient houses. Architects and engineers will design better buildings. Contractors will be able to avoid expensive mistakes when installing high-efficiency equipment.
The author, Donald Wulfinghoff, is a professional engineer who has developed efficiency programmes for hundreds of facilities.
Thousands have attended his lectures on energy efficiency at industry conferences and seminars.
He provides clear explanations for implementing each measure.
He keeps the language as simple as possible, but explains specialised terms in the places where the reader needs to know them.
Energy conservation is a bigger challenge than most people expect, but the manual breaks it down into easy, manageable steps that bring real results.
Many energy saving techniques are simple, while others require a great deal of specialised knowledge.
The Energy Efficiency Manual sells for £144.00.
