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19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

217. Were any of the following technologies in use at your establishment

anytime during 1998?

Census

use only

 Yes No

Don’t

Know

a. Computer control of building-wide environment

(e.g., space-heating equipment, cooling equipment, lights) 14010 a.

b. Computer control of processes or major energy-using equipment

(e.g., boilers, furnaces, conveyors used in the manufacturing process) 14020 b.

c. Waste heat recovery 14030 c.

d. Adjustable-speed motors 14040 d.

218. Were any of the following technologies associated with cogeneration in

use at your establishment anytime during 1998? Yes No

Don’t

Know

a. Steam turbines supplied by either conventional or fluidized bed boilers 14042 a.

b. Conventional combustion turbines with heat recovery 14043 b.

c. Combined-cycle combustion turbines 14044 c.

d. Internal combustion engines with heat recovery 14045 d.

e. Steam turbines supplied by heat recovered from high-temperature

 processes

14046 e.

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Section 20: Technologies
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19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

Section 20: Technologies, cont.

219. This establishment’s six-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is included as part of the

address mailing label on the front page of this questionnaire. 

If the first three digits of your establishment’s NAICS code are:

“322" (paper industries), then go to question 220, this page.

 or “325" (chemical industries), then go to question 221, page 50.

If the six-digit NAICS code of your establishment is: 

“331111" (iron and steel mills), then go to question 223, page 52. 

For all other NAICS codes, go to question 224, Section 21, page 55.

220. Were any of the following technologies associated with paper industries 

in use at your establishment anytime during 1998?

Census

use only Yes No

Don’t

Know

a. Continuous digesters 14360 a.

b. Displacement bleaching process 14370 b.

c. Top-wire (hybrid) paper forming 14380 c.

d. Extended nip press 14390 d.

e. Higher nip pressures 14400 e.

f. Extended delignification 14890 f.

g. Rapid displacement batch heating processes 14900 g.

h. Multi-effect falling-film evaporators for black liquor evaporation 

 and concentration

14420 h.

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Question 220: For Paper Industries (NAICS Code 322) Only
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Section 20: Technologies, cont.

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

Census

use only Yes No

Don’t

Know

i. Vapor recompression evaporation of black liquor 14430 i.

j. Waste-heat recovery technologies in lime kilns 14440 j.

k. High solids firing (black liquor) 14910 k.

l. Gas infrared radiant drying systems 14920 l.

Go to question 224, Section 21, page 55

221. Were any of the following technologies associated with chemical 

industries in use at your establishment anytime during 1998?

Census

use only Yes No

Don’t

Know

a. Replacement of electrically heated platens in the thermoset molding

process with a gas-fired central thermal fluid system

14460 a.

b. Processing residuals as alternative feedstocks 14470 b.

c. Biomass materials (e.g., lignocellulosics, food crops, food wastes) used

as alternative feedstocks

14480 c.

d. Bioprocessing of petroleum, natural gas, coal, or other fossil-based

feedstocks

14490 d.

Go to question 222, next page

Question 220: For Paper Industries (NAICS Code 322) Only, cont.

Questions 221 and 222: For Chemical Industries (NAICS Code 325) Only
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19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

Section 20: Technologies, cont.

222. Were any of the following technologies in use at your establishment

anytime during 1998? 

These technologies are innovative processing and separations that 

(1) substitute use of fossil-based feedstocks with biomass materials, 

(2) increase overall process efficiency, or (3) reduce environmental

impacts and waste processing.

Census

use only

Yes No

Don’t

Know

a. Direct microbial 14500 a.

b. Bioprocessing 14510 b.

c. Gasification of biomass feedstocks 14520 c.

d. Fast pyrolysis of biomass feedstocks 14530 d.

e. Immobilized enzyme processes 14540 e.

f. Innovative catalytic processes 14550 f.

g. Recycling of materials 14560 g.

h. Hydrolysis of biomass materials 14570 h.

i. Enhanced bioprocessing with genetically engineered feedstocks or

organisms

14580 i.

j. Fermentation 14590 j.

Question continued on next page

Question 222: For Chemical Industries (NAICS Code 325) Only, cont.
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19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

Section 20: Technologies, cont.

Census

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Don’t

Know

k. Fractionation of biomass 14600 k.

l. Distillation process improvements 14610 l.

m. Hydrocarbon cracking enhancements 14620 m.

Go to question 224, Section 21, page 55

223. Were any of the following technologies associated with iron and steel mills 

in use at your establishment anytime during 1998? Census

use only

Yes No

Don’t

Know

a. Dry quenching during the coking process 14630 a.

b. External desulfurization of the charge for ironmaking 14640 b.

c. Hydrocarbon injection to maintain blast furnace temperatures 14650 c.

d. Direct reduction ironmaking--sponge iron produced directly from 

iron ore

14660 d.

e. Continuous casting 14670 e.

f. Thin slab/strip casting 14680 f.

Question continued on next page

Question 222: For Chemical Industries (NAICS Code 325) Only, cont.

Question 223: For Iron & Steel Mills (NAICS Code 331111) Only
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19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

Section 20: Technologies, cont.

Census

use only Yes No

Don’t

Know

g. Waste heat boilers/heat exchangers in combination with reheat

 furnaces

14690 g.

h. Evaporative cooling of skid rails 14700 h.

i. Electric induction reheat furnaces 14710 i.

j. Hot charging--moving steel directly from the caster to the reheat

furnace

14720 j.

k. Direct rolling required no reheating 14730 k.

l. Plasmasmelt smelting of partially reduced iron powder with

pulverized coal

14740 l.

m. Cold bonding (COBO) pelletizing technique 14750 m.

n. Preheating combustion air 14760 n.

o. Preheating raw materials 14770 o.

p. Top gas pressure recovery from the blast furnace 14780 p.

q. Slab heat recovery 14790 q.

Question continued on next page

Question 223: For Iron & Steel Mills (NAICS Code 331111) Only, cont.
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Section 20: Technologies, cont.

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

19Yes 29 No 39DK

Census

use only Yes No

Don’t

Know

r. Continuous annealing 14800 r.

s. Continuous cold rolling 14810 s.

t. Bottom tap vessels 14820 t.

u. Injection steel making 14830 u.

v. Electroslag or vacuum arc remelting 14930 v.

w. Oxygen or coal injection to blast furnace 14940 w.

x. Steel ladle metallurgy with reheat furnace 14880 x.

y. Oxy-fuel firing 14950 y.

Go to question 224, Section 21, next page

Question 223: For Iron & Steel Mills (NAICS Code 331111) Only, cont.
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Section 21: Establishment Size

Number of Buildings

19 Don’t Know

Total Square Feet

19 Don’t Know

224. How many buildings were on this establishment site as of

December 31, 1998?

Buildings include: 

1) structures enclosed by walls extending from the foundation to the roof,

2) parking garages, even if not totally enclosed by walls and a roof, or

3) structures erected on pillars to elevate the first fully enclosed level.

Excluded as buildings are: 

1) structures (other than the exceptions noted above) that are not totally enclosed

by walls and a roof, 

2) mobile homes and trailers, even if they house manufacturing activity,

3) structures not ordinarily intended to be entered by humans, such as storage

tanks, or 

4) nonbuildings that consume energy (such as pumps and construction sites).

Census

use only

17010

17020

225. What was the approximate total enclosed square footage of the

buildings located on this establishment site as of December 31,

1998?

Include in this estimate all the area enclosed by the exterior walls of a building,

such as indoor parking facilities, basements, hallways, lobbies, stairways, and

elevator shafts.

13010

13011

Section 22: Remarks

226. Please use this space for any explanations that may be essential in understanding your reported data. 

If additional space is needed, attach a separate sheet, including the 11-digit Census File Number (CFN) located on

the mailing label on the front of this questionnaire.

15990

15991

15992

15993

15994

15995

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Section 23: Contact Information

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227.

Name of person to contact regarding this questionnaire (Please print or type) Date

228. Title of contact person above (Please print or type)

229 Telephone: Area Code Number Extension

230. Address--Number and Street

231.

City State ZIP Code (9 digits)

232.

19010

Internet or E-mail address, if available (Please print or type)

Thank you for completing this questionnaire!

Please photocopy this questionnaire for your records.

Return this questionnaire in the return envelope provided. 

If the envelope has been misplaced, return the completed questionnaire to:

Bureau of the Census

1201 East 10th Street

Jeffersonville, IN 47132-0001