MEASUR v0.8.1-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.
Release Notes v0.8.1
Application

• Enhanced: Sidebar Add Item button allows ability to add an Inventory item
  Calculators
• Enhanced: Efficiency Improvement graph with additional data and functionalities.
• Enhanced: Pump and Fan System Curve graphs
• Added: Power line graph to Pump and Fan System Curve calculator
• Updated: Electricity Reduction to hide Operational Frequency when not a VFD
• Updated: Changed compressor control list values
  Motor Inventory
• Fixed: Bug relating to graphs overlapping on Analysis screen
• Fixed: Example inventory department descriptions
• Fixed: Bug relating to generic motor database filtering
• Updated: Default selected motor fields to be tracked in the inventory
• Enhanced: Add equation for calculating energy use to help text
• Enhanced: Indicated which fields are used for calculating energy use
  Pumps
• Fixed: Example has Full Load Amps equal to the calculated value
• Updated: Converted pump sankey over to plotly
  Fans
• Updated: Converted fan sankey over to plotly
  Data Explorer
• Enhanced: Allow users ability to pick the header row of logger files

Release Notes v.0.8.0
Warning: Do not install an earlier version of this tool without resetting your app data (in settings). Assessments created in MEASUR 0.8.0 are not compatible with older versions.
Exporting from v.0.8.0 and importing to a lower version will continue to work, though new features will not be available.
Application

• Updated: About page for Data Explorer and Equipment Inventory (new Feature)
• Updated: Acknowledgements to add new team members
• Updated: Names of examples to more uniform schema
• Updated: NPM packages
  Calculators
• Added: Calculator to estimate various psychrometric properties given temperature, pressure, and humidity metrics
• Enhanced: Added clarification to all air flow unit labels for standard or actual
• Enhanced: Added clarification to all pressure unit labels for gauge or absolute
• Enhanced: O2 Enrichment form and graph to more easily create and edit modifications to your model
• Enhanced: Reordered input form for Cooling Tower Water Use Calculator
• Enhanced: Upgraded all graphs to use Plotly instead of D3 (allows for users to zoom, set axis and more)
• Fixed: Bug in Reduce Pressure Calculator regarding incorrect value reported for modification energy use
• Fixed: Bug relating to entering data into Compressed Air Leak Survey and Compressed Air Reduction Utility cost fields
• Fixed: Bug relating to specific energy of compressors in Compressed Air Leak Survey and Compressed Air Reduction in metric
• Fixed: Incorrect unit labeled for energy unit cost in Reduce Pressure Calculator
• Fixed: Moved Pipe and Tank Insulation Calculators to Steam
• Fixed: Names of Pipe and Tank Insultation Calculators
• Updated: Form and calculations for Pre-assessment calculators
  Pumps
• Enhanced: Added visual cue (glow highlight) if the inputs to the modification's Full Load Amps field changed
• Fixed: Bug regarding validation for flow rate in metric
• Fixed: Bug relating to app crashing when use delete/backspace on Motor RPM field
  Fans
• Enhanced: Added automatic calculation of compressibility factor in mods (and option to enter manually)
• Enhanced: Added visual cue (glow highlight) if the inputs to the modification's Full Load Amps field changed
• Update: Allows for saving fan traverse calculations even when data form is not complete
  Process Heating
• Enhanced: help text for emissivity field
• Fixed: Bug relating to Energy Input Natural Gas Flow Rate not staying active
• Updated: Algorithm for EAF calculations - made "Exhaust Gas" form optional and MEASUR now automatically calculates Exhaust Gas Losses
  Steam
• Updated: Heat Loss help text
  Treasure Hunt
• Added: Air Leak Survey integrated into Treasure Hunt
• Added: Copy Table Buttons to Report
• Added: Tank Insultation integrated into Treasure Hunt
• Fixed: Bug causing Treasure Chest to blank and Folder to crash due to not having modifications in opportunities
• Fixed: Names of Pipe and Tank Insultation Calculators
• Fixed: Opportunity Payback Detail Graphs display issue on small screens
• Fixed: Trailing decimals in Example
  Data Explorer
• Added: Minimum Bin field, to set lower bound of histogram
• Enhanced: Added ability to recall last use data
• Enhanced: Added additional help text to Data Setup
• Enhanced: Summary data tables in Data Visualization to match graph manipulation (zoom in, etc.)
• Updated: Added ability to switch between percent or number of data points for histogram y-axis
  Motor Inventory (New Feature)
• New Feature: A motor database allowing users to create a catalog of motors in their facility
• New Feature: Integrated into Dashboard/Facility Framework
• New Feature: Sorting & filtering of database
• New Feature: Summary graphs, tables and printouts
• New Feature: Generic Motor Database to initially populate certain fields
• New Feature: Comprehensive help text and links to calculators to populate certain fields
• New Feature: Summary page
• New Feature: Batch analysis (replace vs. rewind)
  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 major release may experience errors
• Import files made in a previous major release may not be useable due to field additions/removals