MEASUR v0.6.5-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.

*Release Notes v0.6.5

Application:

• Fixed: Bug effecting editing Custom Materials after closing application
• Fixed: Bug relating to rollup report side bar links broken
• Fixed: Bugs relating to rollup report printing
• Added: Dismiss option for survey and Beta warning popups
• Enhanced: Re-organized code relating to rollup report printing
• Removed: Rollup report printing disabled until full fuctionality can be restored
• Updated: About Page
• Updated: Acknowledgements
• Updated: Removed acronyms of legacy tools, except in Acknowledgements, About and Home pages

Pumps:

• Fixed: Head Tool Selection button for "Suction Tank" or "Suction Elevation" both displaying as selected
• Enhanced: Removed cents from cost values in Sankey

Fans:

• Enhanced: Removed cents from cost values in Sankey

Process Heating:

• Fixed: Revised Calculation of Energy Intensity in Report - Executive Summary
• Fixed: Solid fuel composition off by a factor of 100
• Enhanced: Removed cents from cost values in Report and Sankey

Steam:

• Enhanced: Changed results display of costs from $kto$
• Enhanced: Removed cents from cost values in Results and Report
• Fixed: Changed Steam Metric Energy Unit from MJ to GJ (fixes potential steam breaking when convert to Metric)

Treasure Hunt:

• Fixed: Bug relating to entering zero for BL energy use in Custom Opportunity Sheet
• Fixed: Bug relating to filter modal appearing after a large number of opportunities added
• Fixed: Opportunity Summary table can be cut off in printed Report
• Added: Pipe Insulation Calculator
• Enhanced: Added comma separators to large numbers in Report
• Enhanced: Added filter capabilities to Report
• Enhanced: All Energy Usage and Cost fields to have same verbiage format
• Enhanced: Changed "Process/Equipment" in Opportunity Sheet to just "Equipment" and changed field into a dropdown
• Enhanced: Changed default Utility Type to "Electricity" for Compressed Air Reduction Calculator
• Enhanced: Changed default Utility Type to "Natural Gas" for Steam Reduction Calculator
• Enhanced: Removed all decimal places from results except Payback
• Enhanced: Removed cents from cost values in Report
• Enhanced: Workflow for exporting Treasure Hunt opportunities to match Assessment Export
• Enhanced: Workflow relating to Opportunity Sheets in Calculators
• Updated: Example to reflect changes to "Process/Equipment" field

Calculators:

• Fixed: Bug relating to Percent Load Estimation Calculator's Example displaying incorrect results
• Fixed: Calculation of Energy in Natural Gas Reduction - Flow Meter Method
• Fixed: Value of 2-lamp T8 HBF lamp output
• Added: New Unit - Thermal Conductivity
• Added: Tank Insulation Calculator

Release Notes v.0.6.4

Application:

• Added: Warning relating to results not updating when modifying field values when translating the application
• Enhanced: Added ability to resize the side bar
• Enhanced: Collapse folders in sidebar using icon
• Enhanced: Added ability to sort assessments within dashboard (reflected in sidebar)
• Fixed: "Click here to export all" link not working properly in contact/feedback page
• Updated: Small icons for use in sidebar
• Updated: Code improvements for dashboard navigation

Pumps:

• Updated: Result name relating to motor Load Factor to "Percent Loaded"

Fans:

• Updated: Result name relating to motor Load Factor to "Percent Loaded"

Treasure Hunt:

• Fixed: Bug relating to Motor Drive and Replace Existing Motor Calculators not properly saving and creating issues in Treasure Chest
• Fixed: Bug relating to Team Summary Table not properly reflecting opportunities chosen in Treasure chest
• Fixed: Bug relating to "Other" Energy source appearing in Result Cost pie charts

Calculators:

• Fixed: Issue where "Utility Type" was locked to "Compressed Air" for all added equipment. Instead, it is locked to the first equipment of the baseline.
• Updated: Field names relating to motor Load Factor to "Percent Loaded" (Motor Drive Comparison, Replace vs. Rewind, Electricity Reduction)
• Updated: Help text relating to "Percent Loaded"

Release Notes v.0.6.3
Steam:

• Fixed: Steam algorithm for process steam energy to be the same for modifications

Release Notes v.0.6.2
Application:

• Enhanced: Added link to homepage side bar for translation

Steam:

• Enhanced: Amended algorithm to calculate scenario steam mass usage to keep process steam energy usage the same as baseline
• Enhanced: Verified data structures of old steam assessments translated to new data structures
• Fixed: Bug where application would crash if enter more than one digit after decimal place
• Fixed: Bug where highest pressure steam pressure validation check was not displaying an error immediately
• Updated: Example to account for algorithm update
• Updated: Modification header process steam usage inputs updated to account for algorithm update
• Updated: Removed unused input for site power import in modifications

Release Notes v.0.6.1
Application:

• Fixed: Tutorials extension bug causing images to offset

Release Notes v0.6.0
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 andrtfg5`4d disappearance of scroll bars
• Fixed: Bug for copy/paste functionality with keyboard
• Fixed: Bug where app quits on close of Mac
• 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

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