Bradley University Industrial Assessment Center Seeks Manufacturing Participants

The U.S. Department of Energy provides FREE energy assessment to small and medium sized manufacturers through a network of twenty-four Industrial Assessment Centers (IAC), located at universities throughout the country. The Bradley IAC, which is the only center in the state of Illinois, has been performing these assessments since 1993.

The Bradley IAC is looking for four immediate potential candidates as well as additional companies for the upcoming year to do a free assessment on!

A team of graduate and undergraduate engineering students, led by Dr. Paul Mehta, the Ameren Illinois Endowed Energy-Related Professor and chairman of the Mechanical Engineering department at Bradley University, conducts a one-day site visit to gather data and take engineering measurements. The team then performs a detailed process analysis to generate specific recommendations with estimates of costs, performance, and payback times. Within 60 days, you will receive a confidential report detailing the analysis, findings, and recommendations. In two to six months, the IAC team will call upon you to verify which recommendations will be implemented.

The benefits of this assessment is to help manufacturers to reduce cost energy bills, use less energy, reduce pollution and waste, and increase productivity.

Lighting, furnaces ovens, boilers, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and waste streams can be assessed.

For more information or to see if your company qualifies for the assessment, please contact Cristine Bucci, Project Coordinator at Bradley IAC at 309-677-3721 (Work), 309-360-5683 (Cell), or cbucci@fsmail.bradley.edu.