Mayor Daley's Chicago Industrial Rebuild Program

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Mayor Daley's Chicago Industrial Rebuild
Program Investigators Andrew L. Sheaffer, MIE
Noel Corral, MIE Michael Chimack, MIE Project
Lead Commonwealth Edison
Problem Statement and Motivation
The City of Chicago Department of Environment
(CDOE), together with Commonwealth Edison (ComEd)
and the Energy Resources Center (ERC), developed
the Chicago Industrial Rebuild Program (CIRP) to
help the most energy and waste intensive
industries in Chicago become more efficient. Each
year, the CDOE targets a selected industry and
the CIRP audit team (CDOE, ComEd, ERC, General
Energy Corp, the Waste Management Resource Center
and Asset E3) conduct comprehensive assessments
to identify potential improvements.
Key Achievements and Future Goals
Technical Approach

• To date, the CIRP program has targeted and
  helped the following industries metal casting,
  chemicals, confectionary, and paper and pulp.
• The program has assisted participating
  industrial facilities secure low interest loans
  provided by the city to help participating
  industrial facilities offset the capital
  investment and implementation cost of
  recommendations made by the CIRP team.
• It is anticipated that the CIRP program will
  continue in FY07.

• Identify energy efficiency, productivity
  improvement, and waste minimization measures by
  providing multi-day comprehensive on-site
  industrial assessments to manufacturers in the
  City of Chicago.
• Develop and present recommendations to increase
  the efficiency of energy users typical of
  industrial facilities such as motors, drives,
  lighting, compressed air systems, and process
  heating and cooling, in addition to, productivity
  improvement and waste minimization opportunities.