Fan Regulation Documents in AMCA Online Repository

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Rev: August30, 2012

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Document Index / Title / Year / Author / Notes
1 / The United States Industrial Electric Motor Systems Market Opportunities Assessment / First - 1998; Again-2002 with minor changes / Xenergy / Foundational report on energy efficiency opportunities for fans in industrial systems. Over 380 pages. See Tables E-2, E-6; Figures 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, Table 2-8,
2 / The United States Industrial Electric Motor Systems Market Opportunities Assessment: Key Results / 1998 / Mitchell Rosenberg, Xenergy, et. al. / Selected pages from the Document 0. Pages are numbered based on publication in a conference proceedings, so they start at 617. Important pages are 620, 623, 626, 628.
3 / Fan and Pump Systems: The Untapped Energy Savings / 1998 / Ingo Bensch, Energy Center of Wisconsin / Analysis of industrial energy efficiency rebate programs. Important pages are 736-738.
4 / Fan and Pump Systems: Markets and Programs / 2002 / Neal Elliott, Steven Nadel, ACEEE / Industrial fan-efficiency opportunities. Important pages 1-6. Links to Document 5 (Figure 4).
5 / Realizing Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Industrial Fan and Pump Systems / 2003 / Neal Elliot and Steven Nadel, ACEEE / Industrial fan efficiency opportunities. Important pages are 1-7.
6 / The Long-Term Energy Efficiency Potential: What the Evidence Suggests / 2012 / Neal Elliott, Harvey Sachs, Steven Nadel, ACEEE / On PDF page 33, ACEEE foresees that air distribution systems will be replaced by combinations of hydronics and Variable Refrigerant systems
7 / The Efficiency Boom: Cashing in on the Savings from Appliance Energy Savings / 2012 / ACEEE / Table 5 shows “adoption date” of the fed std in 2015; effective 2020. Tables 7-10 have estimated energy, cost , and emissions savings from DOE regulations for commercial / industrial fans and blowers. See Fans and Blowers section beginning PDF page 48: “We assumed that cost-effective energy savings of 10% were possible for centrifugal fans, and 56% for axial fans.”
8 / Energy Consumption Characteristics of
Commercial Building HVAC Systems
Volume II:
Thermal Distribution, Auxiliary Equipment, and
Ventilation / 2001 / Westphalen and Koszalinski, Arthur D Little / Detailed analysis of commercial HVAC Energy Consumption, with strong language and statistics on fan energy, PDF Pages 10-12. Again on PDF pages 68-74. Also, see PDF Page 78: Energy use of fans is significantly affected by system design practice, installation procedures, whether the system is properly commissioned, and whether the system receives proper maintenance…, it is clear that A&E firms, installers, and
users have a significant impact on system energy use.
9 / EuP Lot 11:
Fans for ventilation
in non residential buildings
Final Report / 2008 / Dr. Peter Radgen, Julia Oberschmidt
Fraunhofer Institute,
Karlsruhe, Germany
W.T.W. Cory
Independent Consultant, Colchester, UK / Fan market study in Europe performed as background information to regulators for what became the European Commission fan-efficiency regulation taking effect Jan. 2013.
10 / AMCA DOE Regulatory Update – Webinar / June 19-20, 2012 / Michael Ivanovich and Wade Smith / PDF file of PowerPoint slides for the AMCA member-only webinar advising members of DOE regulations and soliciting their participation in a strategy-setting task force.
11 / Creating and Implementing Vision 2020 for
High Performance Air Systems: AMCA
Response Plan for the
U.S. Dept. of Energy’s
Fan-Efficiency Regulatory Initiative / June 13, 2012
(Draft) / Michael Ivanovich / Background document describing how AMCA will respond to DOE initiative to develop a fan efficiency regulation.
12 / Selected pages, figures, and tables from Documents 1-8 above / July 31, 2012 / John Pakan, Michael Ivanovich / All of the content called out in the notes above for Documents 1-8 have been assembled into a single document.