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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483565103321

Autore

Krutwig Michael

Titolo

Energy audits : theoretical examination and modeling of energy audits / / Michael Krutwig, Adrian Dumitru Tanțău

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden, Germany : , : Springer Gabler, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-658-33167-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 pages)

Collana

Sustainable Management, Wertschöpfung und Effizienz Ser.

Disciplina

333.7916

Soggetti

Energy auditing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Abstract -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction to the Research Field -- 1.2 Motivation -- 1.3 Objectives -- 1.4 Methodology -- 1.5 Structure of the Work -- 1.6 Conventions -- 2 Theoretical Consideration of Energy Audits -- 2.1 Literature Research on General Audit Theory -- 2.2 Investigations on Energy Audits -- 2.3 Comparison between Financial Audit and Energy Audit -- 2.4 Research on the Political Significance of Energy Audits -- 2.5 Political Significance: A Comparison Study between Romania and Germany -- 2.6 Research on Quality Aspects of Energy Audits -- 2.7 Non-energy Benefits (NEB) as a Quality Characteristic -- 2.8 Related Work -- 3 Research on Energy Balances -- 3.1 Approaches to Definition and Typification of Energy Balances -- 3.1.1 Energy Balance of a National Economy -- 3.1.2 Complete Energy Balance of an Organization -- 3.1.3 Partial Energy Balance of an Organization -- 3.2 Literature Review on Energy Baseline and Energy Performance Indicators -- 3.3 Research on Quality in Energy Balancing -- 3.4 Measurements for More Accurate Energy Balances -- 3.4.1 Emerging Technologies for Energy Measurements -- 3.4.2 Using LoRaWAN and OPC UA for Measurement-A Case Study -- 3.5 Findings for the Modeling -- 4 Studies on Business Aspects of Energy Efficiency Measures -- 4.1 Assessing Economic Efficiency -- 4.1.1 Net Present Value -- 4.1.2 Internal Rate of Return -- 4.1.3 Return on Investment -- 4.1.4 Payback Period -- 4.1.5 Annuity Method and



Equivalent Annual Cost -- 4.1.6 Life-cycle Cost Methods -- 4.2 Quality Consideration in EEM Calculation -- 4.2.1 Challenges in Calculating Energy Savings -- 4.2.2 Requirements for Energy Audits in Germany -- 4.2.3 A Proposal to Better Detect Non-energy Benefits -- 4.3 Findings for the Modeling.

5 Research on Multiple Energy Audits Processing -- 5.1 Cross-audit Evaluations -- 5.1.1 Literature Review on Cross-audit Evaluations -- 5.1.2 Evaluation of an SME Program for Energy Audits in Germany -- 5.2 Conducting Multiple Energy Audits -- 5.3 Aspects of Collaboration on Energy Audits -- 6 Design of an Universal Data Model for Energy Audits -- 6.1 Methods of Modeling -- 6.1.1 Methodical Approach for the Development of the Model -- 6.1.2 Methodology for the Model Description -- 6.2 The Overarching Model for the SaaS and Companies -- 6.3 The Energy Audit Data Model -- 6.4 The Energy Balance Data Model -- 6.5 The EEM Data Model -- 6.6 The Non-energy Benefit Model -- 7 Validation of the Model with Audit Data -- 7.1 Data Extraction and Cleansing before Validation -- 7.2 Results of the Energy Balance Model Validation -- 7.2.1 Analysis by Audit Type -- 7.2.2 Analysis by Business Area -- 7.3 Validation of the EEM Model -- 7.3.1 Descriptive Statistics of the Samples -- 7.3.2 Examination of the EEM Input Data -- 7.3.3 Examination of the Calculated EEM Values -- 8 Main Contributions and Conclusions -- 8.1 Summary of the Results -- 8.2 Contributions to Current Research -- 8.3 Discussion and Assessment of the Results -- 8.4 Prospects for Further Research -- Bibliography.