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Energy Intensive Industries Aluminum Chemicals Forest Products Glass Metal Casting Mining Petroleum Refining Steel Crosscutting Technologies Combustion Distributed Energy Energy Intensive Processes Fuel and Feedstock Flexibility Industrial Materials for the Future Nanomanufacturing Sensors & Automation BestPractices Industrial Assessment Centers (IACs) Inventions and Innovation

Crosscutting Technologies

Through crosscutting technologies, ITP conducts R&D to improve efficiency of technologies that are common to many industrial processes and can benefit multiple industries. Because of the widespread application of these crosscutting systems, even small improvements in their efficiency can yield large energy savings.

Learn about ITP's crosscutting technologies R&D efforts.

Combustion 

Through selective cost-shared R&D projects, ITP and industry partners work together toward improved combustion system performance in U.S. manufacturing facilities, while promoting industrial productivity and growth.

Distributed Energy 

ITP's Industrial Distributed Energy activities help resolve barriers and accelerate the deployment of CHP technologies in industry, which offers the potential for increased energy savings, reliability, and power quality.

Energy Intensive Processes 

Energy Intensive Processes activities address specific technology platforms and focus areas that are expected to reduce industrial energy intensity in industrial reactions and separation, high-temperature processing, waste heat recovery, and sustainable manufacturing.

Fuel and Feedstock Flexibility 

ITP's Fuel and Feedstock Flexibility subprogram focuses on various methods to reduce natural gas use in industrial applications, including research to develop fuel flexible hardware, and demonstration of fuel flexible technologies.

Industrial Materials for the Future 

This ITP activity conducts R&D to develop and test new advanced industrial materials and material processing methods that will improve the energy efficiency and extend the lifetime of new technologies.

Nanomanufacturing 

ITP's Nanomanufacturing activities will promote the research, development, and deployment of technologies to produce nanomaterials that can be utilized in energy intensive manufacturing processes.

Sensors and Automation 

In this research area, ITP works with industry to develop and deliver robust, integrated measurement devices and intelligent control technology solutions that will have broad applicability across multiple industries.