MEASUR v0.6.1-beta

A software tool for calculating energy efficiency for a variety of industrial and manufacturing applications.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has undertaken an effort to refactor legacy tools that were written for the Windows platform into a modern environment. The legacy tools were written in a variety of programming languages, and the source code considered proprietary. This meant that updating them was a difficult task.

MEASUR helps manufacturers increase industrial energy efficiency at the plant-level and in specific systems. Learn step-by-step ways to identify opportunities, monitor progress, and improve efficiency in any facility. Some tools help facilities implement an energy management system and prepare to become ISO 50001 and Superior Energy Performance certified.

Application:

• Fixed: Tutorials extension bug causing images to offset

Release Notes for MEASUR v0.6.0-beta

Application:

• Added: All calculators within an assessment are included with export data
• Added: Treasure Hunt to rollup report printing
• Fixed: Bug relating to the rapid appearance and disappearance of scroll bars
• Updated: Application wide use of 8760 as default for operating hours
• Updated: Changed default setting to be results instead of help
• Updated: Verbiage of MEASUR sub-header
• Updated: Home and Dashboard Tutorials
• Fixed: Bug for copy/paste functionality with keyboard
• Fixed: App quits on close of mac

Pumps:

• Enhanced: Added more guidance to pump type help text
• Fixed: Issues with badges
• Fixed: Pump and System curves are now exported with assessment
• Updated: Example to include VFD opportunity and utilize pump curve
• Updated: Tutorial

Process Heating:

• Updated: Tutorial

Fans:

• Added: Field validation for Field Data pressure fields
• Fixed: Fan and System curves are now exported with assessment
• Fixed: Issues with badges
• Updated: Tutorial

Steam:

• Added: Input field for implementation costs and payback to results
• Added: Modal for the calculation of Boiler Efficiency
• Added: Tutorial
• Added: Validation for Desuperheat Temperature
• Fixed: Form label for "Header" and Turbine Tabs
• Removed: Iterative calculations for system modeler moved from MEASUR Desktop to suite code
• Updated: Modal for the calculation of Blowdown Fraction

Treasure Hunt:

• Added: Ability to filter and sort Treasure Chest
• Added: Ability to sort TH Opportunities in report
• Added: Auto-unit conversion functionality
• Added: Graph and table to TH report relating to teams' findings
• Added: Report printing functionality
• Added: Select/de-select all buttons for Treasure Chest
• Added: Steam reduction calculator
• Added: Tutorial
• Added: Water Reduction Calculator
• Enhanced: Clarified language for Annual Utility Usage and Costs' Compressed Air and Steam as being utilities produced off-site
• Enhanced: Navigation within TH
• Fixed: Bug preventing saving of Annual Utility Usage and Costs
• Fixed: Bug where Electricity Unit Costs was refilling blank field with default value
• Fixed: Default value for Compressed Air (utility) cost
• Updated: Example to include new calculators
• Updated: Icons for pressure reduction, steam, motor drive and replace motor
• Updated: Verbiage within Treasure Chest

Calculators:

• Added: Buttons to "Generate Example" and "Reset Data" for each calculator
• Added: Calculator for conducting blowdown rate and related savings
• Added: Calculator for estimating energy savings from adding pipe insulation
• Added: Copy table functionality to Steam and Saturated Properties calculators
• Added: Field validation for Fan Achievable Efficiency calculator pressure fields
• Added: Lighting fixture database
• Enhanced: Updated the color of "Copy Table" button to be easier to see
• Fixed: Bug in Energy Equivalency Calculator not properly calculating Equivalent Fuel Heat
• Fixed: Bug relating to compressed air calculator saving
• Fixed: Bug relating to Electricity costs field not displaying in Compressed Air Reduction
• Fixed: Bug where P-H and T-S diagram were not displaying
• Fixed: Imperial and metric unit labels for Velocity in Pipes Calculator
• Fixed: Increased decimal places displayed in CO2 Savings Calculator
• Fixed: Name of "Combined Heat and Power" Calculator
• Fixed: Natural Gas Reduction's metric unit labels
• Fixed: Problems relating to pump, fan and system curves
• Fixed: Re-added the legend for the Motor Performance Calculator graph
• Fixed: Several Bugs relating to pump and fan curves
• Fixed: Steam properties & Saturation Properties T-S diagram cut off for low T values
• Updated: Lighting calculator UI and calculations to include Ballast Factor, Lumen Degradation Factor and Coefficient of Utilization

Known Issues:

• The Mac and Linux releases do not support Auto-updating
• Renaming an export in Windows Download menu can delete the file extension (.json)
• Assessments made in a previous release may experience errors
• Import files made in a previous release will not be useable

MEASUR v0.6.0-beta

A software tool for calculating energy efficiency for a variety of industrial and manufacturing applications.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has undertaken an effort to refactor legacy tools that were written for the Windows platform into a modern environment. The legacy tools were written in a variety of programming languages, and the source code considered proprietary. This meant that updating them was a difficult task.

MEASUR helps manufacturers increase industrial energy efficiency at the plant-level and in specific systems. Learn step-by-step ways to identify opportunities, monitor progress, and improve efficiency in any facility. Some tools help facilities implement an energy management system and prepare to become ISO 50001 and Superior Energy Performance certified.

Application:

• Added: All calculators within an assessment are included with export data
• Added: Treasure Hunt to rollup report printing
• Fixed: Bug relating to the rapid appearance and disappearance of scroll bars
• Updated: Application wide use of 8760 as default for operating hours
• Updated: Changed default setting to be results instead of help
• Updated: Verbiage of MEASUR sub-header
• Updated: Home and Dashboard Tutorials
• Fixed: Bug for copy/paste functionality with keyboard
• Fixed: App quits on close of mac

Pumps:

• Enhanced: Added more guidance to pump type help text
• Fixed: Issues with badges
• Fixed: Pump and System curves are now exported with assessment
• Updated: Example to include VFD opportunity and utilize pump curve
• Updated: Tutorial

Process Heating:

• Updated: Tutorial

Fans:

• Added: Field validation for Field Data pressure fields
• Fixed: Fan and System curves are now exported with assessment
• Fixed: Issues with badges
• Updated: Tutorial

Steam:

• Added: Input field for implementation costs and payback to results
• Added: Modal for the calculation of Boiler Efficiency
• Added: Tutorial
• Added: Validation for Desuperheat Temperature
• Fixed: Form label for "Header" and Turbine Tabs
• Removed: Iterative calculations for system modeler moved from MEASUR Desktop to suite code
• Updated: Modal for the calculation of Blowdown Fraction

Treasure Hunt:

• Added: Ability to filter and sort Treasure Chest
• Added: Ability to sort TH Opportunities in report
• Added: Auto-unit conversion functionality
• Added: Graph and table to TH report relating to teams' findings
• Added: Report printing functionality
• Added: Select/de-select all buttons for Treasure Chest
• Added: Steam reduction calculator
• Added: Tutorial
• Added: Water Reduction Calculator
• Enhanced: Clarified language for Annual Utility Usage and Costs' Compressed Air and Steam as being utilities produced off-site
• Enhanced: Navigation within TH
• Fixed: Bug preventing saving of Annual Utility Usage and Costs
• Fixed: Bug where Electricity Unit Costs was refilling blank field with default value
• Fixed: Default value for Compressed Air (utility) cost
• Updated: Example to include new calculators
• Updated: Icons for pressure reduction, steam, motor drive and replace motor
• Updated: Verbiage within Treasure Chest

Calculators:

• Added: Buttons to "Generate Example" and "Reset Data" for each calculator
• Added: Calculator for conducting blowdown rate and related savings
• Added: Calculator for estimating energy savings from adding pipe insulation
• Added: Copy table functionality to Steam and Saturated Properties calculators
• Added: Field validation for Fan Achievable Efficiency calculator pressure fields
• Added: Lighting fixture database
• Enhanced: Updated the color of "Copy Table" button to be easier to see
• Fixed: Bug in Energy Equivalency Calculator not properly calculating Equivalent Fuel Heat
• Fixed: Bug relating to compressed air calculator saving
• Fixed: Bug relating to Electricity costs field not displaying in Compressed Air Reduction
• Fixed: Bug where P-H and T-S diagram were not displaying
• Fixed: Imperial and metric unit labels for Velocity in Pipes Calculator
• Fixed: Increased decimal places displayed in CO2 Savings Calculator
• Fixed: Name of "Combined Heat and Power" Calculator
• Fixed: Natural Gas Reduction's metric unit labels
• Fixed: Problems relating to pump, fan and system curves
• Fixed: Re-added the legend for the Motor Performance Calculator graph
• Fixed: Several Bugs relating to pump and fan curves
• Fixed: Steam properties & Saturation Properties T-S diagram cut off for low T values
• Updated: Lighting calculator UI and calculations to include Ballast Factor, Lumen Degradation Factor and Coefficient of Utilization

Known Issues:

• The Mac and Linux releases do not support Auto-updating
• Renaming an export in Windows Download menu can delete the file extension (.json)
• Assessments made in a previous release may experience errors
• Import files made in a previous release will not be useable

MEASUR v0.5.3-beta

A software tool for calculating energy efficiency for a variety of industrial and manufacturing applications.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has undertaken an effort to refactor legacy tools that were written for the Windows platform into a modern environment. The legacy tools were written in a variety of programming languages, and the source code considered proprietary. This meant that updating them was a difficult task.

MEASUR helps manufacturers increase industrial energy efficiency at the plant-level and in specific systems. Learn step-by-step ways to identify opportunities, monitor progress, and improve efficiency in any facility. Some tools help facilities implement an energy management system and prepare to become ISO 50001 and Superior Energy Performance certified.

Treasure Hunt:

• Fix bug when creating new treasure hunt assessments relating to operating hours modal

MEASUR v0.5.2-beta

A software tool for calculating energy efficiency for a variety of industrial and manufacturing applications.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has undertaken an effort to refactor legacy tools that were written for the Windows platform into a modern environment. The legacy tools were written in a variety of programming languages, and the source code considered proprietary. This meant that updating them was a difficult task.

MEASUR helps manufacturers increase industrial energy efficiency at the plant-level and in specific systems. Learn step-by-step ways to identify opportunities, monitor progress, and improve efficiency in any facility. Some tools help facilities implement an energy management system and prepare to become ISO 50001 and Superior Energy Performance certified.

Application:

• Added: Google translate functionality in settings to translate application
• Fixed: Bug for exporting facility info when "selecting all" folder contents

Pumps:

• Updated: Assessment help text for VFD
• Added: System curve equation

Process Heating:

• Fixed: Inconsistencies between Efficiency Improvement Calculator and O2 Enrichment calculator

Fans Analysis Calculator:

• Fixed: Unit conversions
• Enhanced: Navigation
• Added: Plane diagram for different plane types
• Added: Highlighting of table and diagram depending on plane input tab

Fans:

• Added: New fan analysis calculator to modal for calculating pressures and flow rate
• Fixed: Compressibility factor calculation in metric

Steam:

• Updated: Unit conversions to match suite, using units for energy in kJ
• Added: Modal for calculating blowdown rate given conductivity
• Fixed: Inlet water value display in diagram
• Fixed: Wrong table displaying from clicking Low Pressure PRV outlet arrow

Treasure Hunt -

• New Calculator: "Waste Water Reduction" calculator added
• New Calculator: "Compressed Air Pressure Reduction" calculator added
• Fixed: Treasure Hunt example being reset when all examples are reset
• Updated: Descriptions of calculators
• Enhanced: Selecting utility types used in assessment in setup

Calculators:

• Fixed: Many spelling and grammar errors in calcluators
• Fixed: Space between letters and exponents
• Updated: More meaningful calculator descriptions
• Fixed: Floating semicolon in some options for unit converter
• Added: New pump curve icon
• Fixed: Validation for steam properties calculator
• Fixed: Percent load estimation calculation
• Fixed: Flash tank validation be method selection
• Enhanced: Replaced "Quantity Value" with "Known Variable" label for steam calculators
• Fixed: Ordering of header results table
• Fixed: Pre Assessment Screening result units for Energy Cost

Known Issues:

• The Mac and Linux releases have significantly slower app start times than windows
• Renaming an export in Windows Download menu can delete the file extension (.json)
• Assessments made in a previous release may experience errors
• Import files made in a previous release may not be usable

Windows MD5 Hash: 36f6f06647f1b933d4b7b75c0782b4cb

MEASUR v0.5.1-beta

A software tool for calculating energy efficiency for a variety of industrial and manufacturing applications.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has undertaken an effort to refactor legacy tools that were written for the Windows platform into a modern environment. The legacy tools were written in a variety of programming languages, and the source code considered proprietary. This meant that updating them was a difficult task.

MEASUR helps manufacturers increase industrial energy efficiency at the plant-level and in specific systems. Learn step-by-step ways to identify opportunities, monitor progress, and improve efficiency in any facility. Some tools help facilities implement an energy management system and prepare to become ISO 50001 and Superior Energy Performance certified.

Application:

• Fixed - Auto updater bug disabling auto-updater for v0.5.0-beta
• Updated - Acknowledgments page
• Updated - Electron version
• Updated - Bootstrap version
• Updated - Removed ng-toasty dependency
• Enhanced - Formatting cleanup for the results displays

Pumps:

• Added: Beta Disclaimer
• Added: Warning popup when a scenario was created in Expert view but viewed in Novice view

Process Heating:

• Fixed: Help text for Explore Opportunities was missing
• Fixed: Notes in Explore Opportunities was missing
• Enhanced: Various HTML CSS enhancements to match PSAT and FSAT
• Enhanced: Added help text diagram to several fields in flue gas calculator to better explain how to obtain data

Fans:

Steam:

• Fixed: Import Power and Makeup Water Costs were missing from Results "Input Summary"
• Fixed: Name of "High to Medium Pressure Turbine" in Results "Input Summary"
• Fixed: Issue with steam unit conversions
• Fixed: Steam results were not updating properly in Assessment
• Fixed: Issue where scenarios where changes were made to turbines were not displaying properly in Explore Opportunities
• Fixed: Bug regarding copying modifications not carrying over changes to baseline
• Fixed: Issue where marginal steam cost button was not calculating marginal steam costs
• Fixed: Inclusion of $ before "Electricity Imported" result in steam diagram results
• Fixed: Issue where HP header warning icon was not sticking to HP header in diagram
• Fixed: Issue regarding extra data generation when making new scenarios resulting in not being able to export assessments with several scenarios
• Added: Steam to rollup report functionality
• Added: Indicators for zero flow to diagram
• Added: Clicking on a pipe or arrow within pipe will put the summary data in the results tab on the right
• Added: Beta Disclaimer
• Added: Warning popup when a scenario was created in Expert view but viewed in Novice view
• Added: Message in report graphs if there are no turbines to generate a turbine pie chart
• Enhanced: Minor adjustments to system diagram to improve visibility of displayed values
• Enhanced: Changed wording of two fields names "Desuperheat into ... pressure header" to "Desuperheat out of ... pressure header"
• Enhanced: Additional warnings to diagram if steam in header/equipment is saturated, cannot flash water, etc.
• Enhanced: User input validation warnings for various potential input errors
• Enhanced: Ability to zoom in and out on the diagram

Treasure Hunt -

• New Feature - Treasure Hunt Calculators - allows users to estimate the energy savings for various opportunities and compare current energy use throughout facility to that after opportunity implementation

Calculators:

• Fixed: Several bugs relating Pump/Fan and System curves
• Fixed: Bug where the decimal point was not recognized in replace/rewind motor calculator
• Added: Cost of electricity/fuel and cost savings to various calculator (lighting, replace motors, etc.)
• Added: Electricity, natural gas, and compressed air reduction calculators
• Enhanced: Combined replace/rewind motor calculator and replace motor calculators
• Enhanced: Several calculators to fit into the Treasure Hunt (lighting, replace motors, etc.)
• Enhanced: Description of Combined Heat and Power Calculator

Known Issues:

• The calculations for the Steam application will take longer than the others due to its iterative calculations
• The Mac and Linux releases have significantly slower app start times than in previous builds
• Renaming an export in Windows Download menu can delete the file extension (.json)
• Assessments made in a previous release may experience errors
• Import files made in a previous release will not be useable

MEASUR v0.5.0-beta

A software tool for calculating energy efficiency for a variety of industrial and manufacturing applications.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has undertaken an effort to refactor legacy tools that were written for the Windows platform into a modern environment. The legacy tools were written in a variety of programming languages, and the source code considered proprietary. This meant that updating them was a difficult task.

MEASUR helps manufacturers increase industrial energy efficiency at the plant-level and in specific systems. Learn step-by-step ways to identify opportunities, monitor progress, and improve efficiency in any facility. Some tools help facilities implement an energy management system and prepare to become ISO 50001 and Superior Energy Performance certified.

Application:

• Updated - Acknowledgments page
• Updated - Electron version
• Updated - Bootstrap version
• Updated - Removed ng-toasty dependency
• Enhanced - Formatting cleanup for the results displays

Pumps:

• Added: Beta Disclaimer
• Added: Warning popup when a scenario was created in Expert view but viewed in Novice view

Process Heating:

• Fixed: Help text for Explore Opportunities was missing
• Fixed: Notes in Explore Opportunities was missing
• Enhanced: Various HTML CSS enhancements to match PSAT and FSAT
• Enhanced: Added help text diagram to several fields in flue gas calculator to better explain how to obtain data

Fans:

Steam:

• Fixed: Import Power and Makeup Water Costs were missing from Results "Input Summary"
• Fixed: Name of "High to Medium Pressure Turbine" in Results "Input Summary"
• Fixed: Issue with steam unit conversions
• Fixed: Steam results were not updating properly in Assessment
• Fixed: Issue where scenarios where changes were made to turbines were not displaying properly in Explore Opportunities
• Fixed: Bug regarding copying modifications not carrying over changes to baseline
• Fixed: Issue where marginal steam cost button was not calculating marginal steam costs
• Fixed: Inclusion of $ before "Electricity Imported" result in steam diagram results
• Fixed: Issue where HP header warning icon was not sticking to HP header in diagram
• Fixed: Issue regarding extra data generation when making new scenarios resulting in not being able to export assessments with several scenarios
• Added: Steam to rollup report functionality
• Added: Indicators for zero flow to diagram
• Added: Clicking on a pipe or arrow within pipe will put the summary data in the results tab on the right
• Added: Beta Disclaimer
• Added: Warning popup when a scenario was created in Expert view but viewed in Novice view
• Added: Message in report graphs if there are no turbines to generate a turbine pie chart
• Enhanced: Minor adjustments to system diagram to improve visibility of displayed values
• Enhanced: Changed wording of two fields names "Desuperheat into ... pressure header" to "Desuperheat out of ... pressure header"
• Enhanced: Additional warnings to diagram if steam in header/equipment is saturated, cannot flash water, etc.
• Enhanced: User input validation warnings for various potential input errors
• Enhanced: Ability to zoom in and out on the diagram

Treasure Hunt -

• New Feature - Treasure Hunt Calculators - allows users to estimate the energy savings for various opportunities and compare current energy use throughout facility to that after opportunity implementation

Calculators:

• Fixed: Several bugs relating Pump/Fan and System curves
• Fixed: Bug where the decimal point was not recognized in replace/rewind motor calculator
• Added: Cost of electricity/fuel and cost savings to various calculator (lighting, replace motors, etc.)
• Added: Electricity, natural gas, and compressed air reduction calculators
• Enhanced: Combined replace/rewind motor calculator and replace motor calculators
• Enhanced: Several calculators to fit into the Treasure Hunt (lighting, replace motors, etc.)
• Enhanced: Description of Combined Heat and Power Calculator

Known Issues:

• The calculations for the Steam application will take longer than the others due to its iterative calculations
• The Mac and Linux releases have significantly slower app start times than in previous builds
• Renaming an export in Windows Download menu can delete the file extension (.json)
• Assessments made in a previous release may experience errors
• Import files made in a previous release will not be useable

MEASUR v0.4.0-beta

A software tool for calculating energy efficiency for a variety of industrial and manufacturing applications.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has undertaken an effort to refactor legacy tools that were written for the Windows platform into a modern environment. The legacy tools were written in a variety of programming languages, and the source code considered proprietary. This meant that updating them was a difficult task.
MEASUR helps manufacturers increase industrial energy efficiency at the plant-level and in specific systems. Learn step-by-step ways to identify opportunities, monitor progress, and improve efficiency in any facility. Some tools help facilities implement an energy management system and prepare to become ISO 50001 and Superior Energy Performance certified.

Application:

• Added: Popup to home page to ask for tool feedback
• Added: Tutorial Setting for "All Hide/Show"
• Enhanced: Changed name of "Contact" page to "Feedback" and added link for tool feedback survey
• Enhanced: Style updates for consistency throughout the tool
• Enhanced: Added button for "Copy Table" to most tables throughout tool
• Enhanced: Esc button now closes popup graphs
• Fixed: Several grammar/spelling issues in tool

Pumps:

• Fixed: Bug relating to using the backspace to clear the name of a new scenario in Explore Opportunities
• Fixed: Clarified that "Cost" field in Field Data is "Electricity Cost"

Process Heating:

• Enhanced: Help text for "Number of Phases" in Aux Equipment
• Fixed: Updated field title for "Motor Phase" field in Aux Equipment to "Number of Phases"

Fans:

• Fixed: Updated field title for "Cost" field in Field Data to "Electricity Cost"

Steam:

• New Feature - Steam System Modeling Tool - allows users to compare current steam systems to modified scenarios to analyze potential energy savings
• Added - Steam Reports and dynamic diagram

Calculators:

• Added: Lighting Calculator to home screen
• Enhanced: Styling of Motor - Replace/Rewind to fit into the Treasure Hunt Styling
• Enhanced: Help text for Compressed Air - Bag Method calculator and Compressed Air - System Capacity calculator
• Enhanced: Reduced the maximum width of the unit converter calculator
• Enhanced: Set the right side of the unit converter to a result instead of an updating input field
• Enhanced: Styling of Motor - Replace Existing motor to fit into the Treasure Hunt Styling
• Enhanced: Calculator help text for Process Heating - O2 Enrichment & Efficiency Improvement
• Fixed: Bug where field help text was not always showing up in pre-assessment calculator
• Fixed: Bug in pump & fan curves and system curves where tool was not converting from non-standard imperial units before sending it to the suite for calculations
• Fixed: Suite bug where the Steam - Flash Tank calculator would not properly identify if incoming steam was superheated or saturated, leading to errors
• Fixed: Several small bugs relating to calculator icons
• Fixed: Bug relating to the Fan - Fan Analysis calculator not allowing progression when using "Use Custom Density"

Known Issues:

• The calculations for the Steam application will take longer than the others due to its iterative calculations
• The Mac and Linux releases have significantly slower app start times than in previous builds
• Renaming an export in Windows Download menu can delete the file extension (.json)
• Assessments made in a previous release may experience errors
• Import files made in a previous release will not be useable

MEASUR v0.3.3-beta

A software tool for calculating energy efficiency for a variety of industrial and manufacturing applications.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has undertaken an effort to refactor legacy tools that were written for the Windows platform into a modern environment. The legacy tools were written in a variety of programming languages, and the source code considered proprietary. This meant that updating them was a difficult task.

AMO’s tools help manufacturers increase industrial energy efficiency at the plant-level and in specific systems. Learn step-by-step ways to identify opportunities, monitor progress, and improve efficiency in any facility. Some tools help facilities implement an energy management system and prepare to become ISO 50001 and Superior Energy Performance certified.

Application:

• Fixed: Changed name of the tool as it appears in Start Menus to MEASUR

Pumps:

• Fixed: Several bugs regarding warnings
  Process Heating:

Fans:

• Fixed: Several bugs regarding warnings

Calculators:

• Enhanced: Validation logic and warnings for pump and fan calculators
• Fixed: Bug regarding calculation of fluid power for pump curve, fan curve and the two system curve calculators

Known Issues:

• The Mac and Linux releases have significantly slower app start times than in previous builds
• Renaming an export in Windows Download menu can delete the file extension (.json)
• Assessments made in a previous release may experience errors
• Import files made in a previous release will not be useable

AMO Tools Desktop v0.3.2-beta

A software tool for calculating energy efficiency for a variety of industrial and manufacturing applications.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has undertaken an effort to refactor legacy tools that were written for the Windows platform into a modern environment. The legacy tools were written in a variety of programming languages, and the source code considered proprietary. This meant that updating them was a difficult task.

AMO’s tools help manufacturers increase industrial energy efficiency at the plant-level and in specific systems. Learn step-by-step ways to identify opportunities, monitor progress, and improve efficiency in any facility. Some tools help facilities implement an energy management system and prepare to become ISO 50001 and Superior Energy Performance certified.

Application:

• Fixed: Issue where pre-assessments were automatically checked when navigated to a folder
• Added: Access to the Unit Converter Calculator within Assessments
• Added: Ability to set if tutorials are on/off in General Settings
• Added: Print options for Rollup reports
• Enhanced: Ensured that values in Assessment Calculators are copied when copy the Assessment

Pumps:

• Added: Ability for users to define drive efficiency
• Added: Load Fraction and Drive Efficiency as results
• Enhanced: Electricity price defined in folder is applied to default value in new assessments
• Enhanced: Removed "Operating Fraction" and replaced with "Operating Hours"
• Enhanced: Revamped Explore Opportunities to feature energy savings opportunities as starting points for a scenario
• Enhanced: Revamped the Optimization procedure. Only pump is optimized via link. In a modification can either enter a pump efficiency (with the efficiency calculated in the baseline as a default value) or "optimize pump"

Process Heating:

• Fixed: Bug relating to help text initialization for Design Energy Use and Metered Energy
• Added: Help text for "Flow Rate During Collection" in Metered Energy

Fans:

• Fixed: Bug relating to tool not allowing progression from Fan tab
• Fixed: Bug stopping calculator from appearing in assessment
• Fixed: Issues regarding Report Input Data
• Fixed: Issues regarding metric units for Fan Rated Motor Power
• Added: Ability for users to define drive efficiency
• Added: Load Fraction and Drive Efficiency as results
• Enhanced: Electricity price defined in folder is applied to default value in new assessments
• Enhanced: Removed "Operating Fraction" and replaced with "Operating Hours"
• Enhanced: Revamped Explore Opportunities to feature energy savings opportunities as starting points for a scenario
• Enhanced: Revamped the Optimization procedure. Only fan is optimized via link. In a modification can either enter a fan efficiency (with the efficiency calculated in the baseline as a default value) or "optimize fan"

Calculators:

• Fixed: Issue with extra lines appearing on Fan Curve Calculator Graph

• Fixed: Issues with results in Pneumatic Cylinder Air Requirement Calculator

• Fixed: Names, links, and order of calculators in lists

• Fixed: General issues regarding the System Curve Calculator

• Fixed: General issues regarding the Pump Curve Calculator

• Fixed: General issues regarding the Fan Curve Calculator

• Fixed: Issue in pump/fan curves where table headers were offset

• Fixed: Bug relating to calculations within System Curve

• Added: Help text for fields in Pneumatic Cylinder Air Requirement Calculator

• Added: Max flow for pump/fan curves

• Added: Boiler Combustion Efficiency as a result in the Stack Loss Calculator

• Added: Automatic population of Pump/Fan Curve Table with the intersection points between pump/fan and system curves

• Added: kgal unit to unit converter

• Added: Receiver Tank - Usable Air Capacity Calculator

• Enhanced: Gave the results of the unit converter 6 significant digits

• Removed: Receiver Tank - Usable Air Capacity from Receiver Tank - Size Calculator

• Removed: "Explore" Section of Pump/Fan Curve Calculators

Known Issues:

• The Mac and Linux releases have significantly slower app start times than in previous builds
• Renaming an export in Windows Download menu can delete the file extension (.json)
• Assessments made in a previous release may experience errors
• Import files made in a previous release will not be useable

AMO Tools Desktop v0.3.1-beta

A software tool for calculating energy efficiency for a variety of industrial and manufacturing applications.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has undertaken an effort to refactor legacy tools that were written for the Windows platform into a modern environment. The legacy tools were written in a variety of programming languages, and the source code considered proprietary. This meant that updating them was a difficult task.

AMO’s tools help manufacturers increase industrial energy efficiency at the plant-level and in specific systems. Learn step-by-step ways to identify opportunities, monitor progress, and improve efficiency in any facility. Some tools help facilities implement an energy management system and prepare to become ISO 50001 and Superior Energy Performance certified.

Application:

• Added: Pump, Fan, and Process Heating Assessment and Dashboard Tutorials to Tutorials Page and throughout assessment
• Added: System Restore Button to delete all assessments, clear custom databases, restore settings, restore examples
• Added: Calculator data within assessments is saved with the assessment
• Updated: List of contributors to tool
• Fixed: FSAT summaries no longer show up in Printed rollup reports if there are no assessments of that type
• Fixed: Typos, Style and bug fixes
• Removed: Delete All Assessments Button

Pumps:

• Enhanced: Badges update in response to warnings
• Enhanced: Removed dropdown menus for Rated Motor Power so can use non-standard values
• Fixed: Calculation for optimized/modified current and power factor

Process Heating:

• Enhanced: Badges update in response to warnings
• Fixed: Calculation errrs in EAF Energy Input
• Fixed: Behavior issues with Cooling losses in Explore Opportunities
• Removed: Incorrect display of warning for non-EAF electrotechnologies

Fans:

• Added: Added Fans to the Rollup reports
• Added: Added report functionality
• Fixed: Fan and Pump summary energy units from kWh to MWh
• Enhanced: Added tooltips to the badges
• Enhanced: Badges update in response to warnings
• Enhanced: Removed dropdown menus for Rated Motor Power so can use non-standard values

Calculators:

• Added: Calculator for quantifying savings from switching lighting
• Added: Calculator for quantifying CO2 emissions and savings for different energy sources
• Added: All data in calculators now remain when navigating away from page
• Added: Button to copy all data in graph results tables for exporting to Excel or similar programs.
• Added: Metric units for compressed air
• Added: Button to reset calculator data to original state
• Enhanced: Added icons for calculators from the Steam System Modeling Tool (boiler, turbine, etc.)
• Enhanced: Added ability to add more leaks in Bag Method - Leak Loss Calculator
• Fixed: Cleaned up code pertaining to line graphs
• Fixed: Improved functionality of the combined pump/fan and system curve
• Fixed: Bug relating to calcualtion of motor drive efficiency
• Fixed: Several instances of incorrectly displayed units in calculators
• Fixed: Bug relating to calcuation of modifications to pump and fan curves
• Removed: Pneumatic valve flow factor calculator until further fixes are made

Known Issues:

• The Mac and Linux releases have significantly slower app start times than in previous builds
• Renaming an export in Windows Download menu can delete the file extension (.json)
• Assessments made in a previous release may experience errors
• Import files made in a previous release will not be useable