How to Find and Begin using
MEASUR:
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The Manufacturing Energy Assessment Software for
Utility Reduction
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DOE Industrial Software Tools
Designed to help energy and sustainability teams identify savings
opportunities in their operational energy usage and emissions
Energy Systems Energy Management Carbon, Water, & Waste
VERIFI Plant Water Profiler
MEASUR 50001 Ready Navigator Plant Carbon Footprint &
Electrification for Decarbonization Energy Footprint Tool Decarbonization Assessment Tool
Compressed Air Scoping Tool Plant Energy Profiler Carbon Emissions Calculator
Implementation Guidance Toolkit Waste Stream Energy Content
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DOE’s History of Energy Efficiency Software
▪ Technology and vendor agnostic tools to identify,
quantify, and validate energy saving opportunities
▪ Original DOE software tools developed in the 1990’s in
collaboration with industry experts
▪ Modernize to Open-Source Software
▪ Single Free, Open-Source, OS Agnostic Tool
▪ Upgraded tool capabilities
▪ Government-side open-source software
UT-Battelle Permissive License:
“Do whatever, but please provide attribution.”
▪ Desktop/Web/Mobile
▪ Automatic update notification
▪ Enable Technology Field Validation
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MEASUR is an Integrated Energy Tool
• Free to Use
• OS Agnostic
• Desktop: Web & App - Windows, Mac, Linux
• Mobile: Web & App – Android & iPhone
• International Useability
• No limits on where they can be downloaded or
accessed
• Google Translate available for web version
• Unit system flexibility: Make an assessment in
metric or U.S. units and switch to the other
• Data Privacy
• Data is stored on *YOUR* device
• No data you entered is sent to us unless you
send it to us directly
• Data related to use (where you click, etc.) is collected
via Google Analytics to improve the tool
• Automatic Updates
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How MEASUR can Help Assessments
▪ Model manufacturing energy
use and generation
▪ Quantify savings opportunities
▪ Help reduce the losses in key
manufacturing energy users
~4.48 QBTU (2018)
▪ 6 Assessment types, 2
Inventories, + Treasure Hunt
▪ Pumps, process heating, fans, steam
systems, and compressed air
▪ Motor & Pump Inventories
▪ Treasure Hunt with calcs for all
systems
▪ 80 Stand alone Calculators
▪ Pumps, fans, heating, compressed
air, steam, motors, lighting, CHP, etc.
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How does MEASUR help me?
▪ Helps understand current energy use in industrial systems
▪ Helps with calculations for energy efficiency projects
▪ Creates reports and visualizations for project pitches
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What do I put into MEASUR?
▪ Data regarding the current operations of industrial systems
▪ Data regarding the potential, more efficient operations of industrial
systems
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Finding MEASUR
▪ Officially released March 2022
▪ Updates will occur often
▪ Automatic notification of updates if
connected to the internet
▪ Please report bugs to
measur-help@[Link]
▪ Download from DOE or GitHub
▪ Uninstalling will delete your
assessments! Download here:
▪ If using online – [Link]
[Link]
▪ Clearing cache will delete your
Or Google “MEASUR”
assessments!
Web version: [Link]
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Citing MEASUR
▪ If you use MEASUR for academic purposes, please cite in the appropriate
format with the following information
▪ OSTI page: [Link]
▪ DOI: [Link]
▪ Example citations:
▪ MLA: Accawi, Gina, et al. "MEASUR - Manufacturing Energy Assessment Software for Utility
Reduction." , Mar. 2022. [Link]
▪ APA: Accawi, Gina, Root, Robert Mark, Blondheim, Nick, Howard, Dmitry, Hernandez, Rachel,
Armstrong, Kristina, Cranfill, Kita Dawn, Shires, Preston, Kaminski, Michal, Hadden, Jon,
DePauw, Josh, Sakovets, Yevi, Causey, Colin, Beanblossom, Kyle, Whitmer, Michael,
Ledbetter, Allie, Rappoport, Ben, Saravanan, Shiva, ... USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy (2022). MEASUR - Manufacturing Energy Assessment Software for
Utility Reduction. [Link]
▪ Chicago: Accawi, Gina, Root, Robert Mark, Blondheim, Nick, et al., "MEASUR -
Manufacturing Energy Assessment Software for Utility Reduction," (2022),
[Link]
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Things to remember
▪ MEASUR is great for good estimations, but
▪ Quality of results depends on the quality of data!
▪ Better baseline data, more accurate results
▪ More realistic modifications, more accurate results
▪ Keep in mind when pitching projects
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Getting Started
Start an assessment
Create an inventory
View Assessment
Dashboard
Use Properties &
Equipment
Calculators
Help and User
Experience
Change Settings
View Tutorials
Manage Custom
Materials
Provide Feedback
Translate
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Dashboard – Assessments organized in folder structure
Folders can represent Facilities or Departments
Move, copy, import and
export assessments
Add/view facility information
and folder-wide settings
Make pre-assessment
screenings
Generate rollup reports of
several assessments
Add New Assessment
Add New Inventory
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MEASUR includes Help Text & Tutorials
▪ Tutorials
▪ Help to get started using tool
▪ Help text for each data
entry field
▪ Diagrams to help understand
where to obtain data
▪ Can switch between help or
results being shown by default
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Customize Units
▪ Units are easily customizable and can be changed after data entry!
▪ Can be changed globally in Settings or for a folder
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Start an Assessment from the home page or dashboard
Choose a unique name for
the assessment
Set Assessment type
(Pump, Compressed Air,
Fan, Process Heater,
Steam, Treasure Hunt,
Wastewater)
Choose folder location
Or make a new folder
Several places to start an
assessment
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Assessments all have similar workflow
Create a baseline
Enter data about current
system setup
Create an assessment
Modify key variables to create
What-if scenarios and compare
Review Results
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Treasure Hunt helps find low/no cost opportunities
▪ Find low/no cost energy savings opportunities in motor systems, process heating,
compressed air, lighting, etc.
▪ Simplify report out with automatically built PowerPoint presentation
▪ Get started right with automatically built Project Tracker (Excel)
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Simple, easy-to-use Calculators
▪ 80 Stand alone
Calculators
▪ Motors
▪ Pumps
▪ Fans
▪ Process Heating
▪ Process Cooling
▪ Steam
▪ Compressed Air
▪ Lighting
▪ General
▪ Most have
graphical results
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Simple, easy-to-use Calculators
▪ 80 Stand alone
Calculators
▪ Motors
▪ Pumps
▪ Fans
▪ Process Heating
▪ Process Cooling
▪ Steam
▪ Compressed Air
▪ Lighting
▪ General
▪ Most have
graphical results
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Starting an Assessment
Choose a unique name for
the assessment
Set Assessment type
(Pump, Compressed Air,
Fan, Process Heater,
Steam, Treasure Hunt,
Wastewater)
Choose folder location
Or make a new folder
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Each System Setup starts with Assessment Settings
▪ Decide settings for
Assessment
▪ Units: Imperial or Metric
▪ Can set Energy Results
separately
▪ Select energy source for
furnace
▪ Cannot be changed if there are
losses in Heat Balance
▪ Add notes on conditions at
time of assessment
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System Setup
Start with current equipment and operations -
Baseline
Assessment Settings: Set units and basic assessment settings
Assessment Specific Tabs
Data Entry for baseline assessment
Intermediate Results
Help text for each data entry field
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Assessments
Explore energy savings opportunities
▪ Explore Opportunities: build scenarios from pre-established energy
savings measures
▪ Modify All Conditions: build scenarios using same forms as baseline
▪ Badges and field highlighting for visual cues
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Reports
View side-by-side comparison of all scenarios and
graphs for data visualization
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Reports - Printing
Print to PDF for Assessment Reports & Rollup Reports
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MEASUR’s Modules
▪ Pumps ▪ Wastewater
▪ Process Heating ▪ Treasure Hunt
▪ Fans ▪ Data Explorer
▪ Steam ▪ Inventories
(Motors & Pumps)
▪ Compressed Air
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Pumps
▪ Estimate motor full load amps, load current and power factor, fluid head,
and fan and motor efficiency
▪ Explore the savings from changing pump and motor efficiency (which can
be optimized automatically), flow and head, or even fluid temperature
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Process Heating
▪ Calculate heat losses from several heater components
▪ Explore the savings from reducing flue gas oxygen or temperature, preheating
air or charge materials, controlling furnace pressure, closing openings, etc.
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Fans
▪ Estimate motor full load amps, load current and power factor, pressure
and flow from a traverse analysis, and fan and motor efficiency
▪ Explore the savings from changing fan and motor efficiency (which can be
optimized automatically), flow and pressure, or even fluid characteristics
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Steam
▪ Determine steam flows, fuel use, electricity production throughout system
▪ Explore the savings from adding/removing turbines, adding flash tanks,
increasing condensate recycle, etc.
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Compressed Air
▪ Develop a compressed air inventory and understand average hourly
operations, performance and impact on energy use
▪ Explore the savings from reducing leaks, air demand, or system pressure,
improve controls, etc.
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Wastewater
▪ Determine sludge production, O2 supply and demand, MLSS or SRT, and aerator energy use
▪ Explore the savings from optimizing SRT, reducing DO concentration, matching oxygen
supply and demand, optimizing aerator performance, etc.
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Treasure Hunt
▪ Find low/no cost energy savings opportunities in motor systems, process heating,
compressed air, lighting, etc.
▪ Simplify report out with automatically built PowerPoint presentation
▪ Get started right with automatically built Project Tracker (Excel)
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Data Explorer
▪ Two Key Functions
▪ Day Type Analysis
▪ Used for finding hourly
averages for similar load
profiles
▪ For Compressed Air
Assessment and other long-
term analyses
▪ Based on LogTool
▪ Data Visualization – easy
graphing capabilities to
explore large datasets
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Equipment Inventories
▪ Modeled after MotorMaster
▪ Record key information about
equipment in one place
▪ Motors – Beta
▪ Pumps, fans, compressors,
maintenance - Planning
▪ Sort & filter, summary graphs,
inventory printouts
▪ Batch analysis for simple
calculators
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Backup & Feedback
▪ Easily backup entire MEASUR data
▪ If using downloaded version, can setup
Automatic Backup
▪ Let us know if you like MEASUR!
▪ Built in survey!
▪ Bug Reporting
▪ Email: measur-help@[Link]
▪ Screenshots please
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Settings
▪ Set global units & utility
costs
▪ Turn on/off Tutorials
▪ Clear Data
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Dashboard – Set Facility Information
The Dashboard is designed to treat each folder like
a facility or business unit
Enter information about facility.
This will appear in reports
Quick Summary of all Set units and utility costs for any
assessments in folder NEW assessments created
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Dashboard - Pre-Assessments
Pre-Assessments are to help you triage equipment to best utilize
assessment time
Enter either design specifications or
meter data to determine your priorities
Graphed to quickly see most
impactful
Switch between Energy Use and
Cost if equipment uses different fuel
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Dashboard - Rollup Reports
Create Rollup Reports to see the impacts of opportunities on overall
energy use
Choose which assessments
& pre-assessments to
include in rollup Review all
Then reports
Click
View Equipment Summary
Choose which
scenario to include
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Example Calculators
CO2 Savings Pump Curve
Saturated Properties
O2 Enrichment
Compressed Air Leak Survey Motor Performance
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Custom Materials for fuels, charge materials, etc.
▪ Add Fuels,
Charge
Materials,
etc. that are
not in
MEASUR’s
databases to
reuse later
▪ Can import &
import
custom
materials
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About & Acknowledgements
▪ About
▪ Intended Users
▪ Inputs/Outputs for
each modules
▪ Acknowledgements
▪ The end credits
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Release Notes
▪ Gives brief
overview of what
has been added
since last update
▪ Can also look at
before installing
update
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Coming Soon
▪ Water Diagram & Balance
▪ Process Cooling
▪ More Equipment Databases
▪ Modeled after MotorMaster+ Database
▪ Keep inventory of equipment (pumps, fans, compressors, etc.) connected to
assessments
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Acknowledgements
Subject Matter Experts
▪ Don Casada, Diagnostic Solutions, LLC, developed the original PSAT and
ORNL Staff SULI, CCI, URSI
FSAT, and contributed the algorithms for the Pumping and Fan modules.
Gina Accawi Thomas Wenning Participants
▪ Arvind Thekdi, E3M, Inc. developed the original PHAST and continued to
Kyle Beanblossom
contribute to the Process Heating module by providing the algorithms for the
previous versions (PHAST 3.0 and PHASTEx), updating the algorithms for
Kristina Armstrong Alexandra Botts
Kai Chen
improved accuracy, and providing feedback.
Mark Root Autumn Ferree
▪ Vern Martin, Donovan Martin, and Mats Falk, Flowcare, provided updated Fan
algorithms and feedback during the development of the Fan module. Ahmad Abbas Chris Price Zach Fontenot
▪ Ron Wroblewski, Productive Energy Solutions, reviewed and provided updated Omer Aziz Sachin Nimbalkar Allie Ledbetter
Fan algorithms for the Fan module.
▪ Greg Harrell, Milligan University, developed the previous versions of DOE
Subodh Chaudhari Senthil Jordan Lees
steam tools and continued to contribute to MEASUR by providing feedback. Kita Cranfill Sundaramoorthy Charlotte Merchant
▪ Glenn Cunningham, Tennessee Technical University, reviewed and provided Daryl Cox Kiran Thirumaran
feedback for the Pump, Fan, and Steam modules, as well as many calculators. Ben Rappoport
▪ Riyaz Papar, Hudson Tech., reviewed and provided feedback for the Steam
Wei Guo Raul Rios
module.
▪ Walt Brockway, reviewed and provided feedback for the Treasure Hunt Contractors and ORAU Student Shiva Saravanan
module. Andrew Worley
▪ Larry Moore, University of Memphis, developed the original Bio-Tiger model for
Employees
Wastewater Treatment facilities, oversaw updates to the algorithm, and
provided feedback during the development of the Wastewater module. Nick Blondheim Rachel Stone
▪ Frank Moskowitz, Draw Professional Services, reviewed and provided
feedback for the Compressed Air module. Colin Causey Subhankar Mishra
▪ Eric Bessey, TTed Solutions, Inc, developed and provided updated algorithms Jeff Jensen Asha Shibu
from the originals AirMaster+ software , provided feedback during the current
algorithm development
Jon Hadden Preston Shires
▪ Eric J. Wahlberg, Wastewater Technology Trainers, reviewed and provided
Dmitry Howard David Vance
feedback for the Wastewater module and calculators. Michal Kaminski Michael Whitmer
Shubham Kokul
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Feedback or bugs?
Email:
armstrongko@[Link]
accawigk@[Link]
wenningtj@[Link]
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