本标准涵盖了工艺加热系统，其定义为一组（或一套或组合）加热设备，用于在工业工厂生产商品时加热材料。这些系统通常使用熔炉、熔炉、烤箱和加热器等术语，使用燃料、电、蒸汽或其他流体等热源来提供所需的热量。本标准规定了进行和报告过程加热能量评估（以下简称评估）结果的要求，该评估考虑了整个系统，从能量输入到这些输入结果所执行的工作。符合本标准的评估无需以同等权重处理工业设施内的每个单独系统组件或特定系统；然而，其应足够全面，以确定提高系统整体能源性能的主要能源效率机会。 本标准主要用于工业设施，但许多概念可用于其他设施，如机构和商业部门的设施。

This Standard covers process heating systems that are defined as a group (or a set, or combination) of heating equipment used for heating materials in the production of goods in an industrial plant. These systems, commonly referred to using terms such as furnaces, melters, ovens, and heaters, use heat sources such as fuels, electricity, steam or other fluids to supply the required heat.This Standard sets the requirements for conducting and reporting the results of a process heating energy assessment (hereafter referred to as an assessment) that considers the entire system, from energy inputs to the work performed as the result of these inputs. An assessment meeting this standard need not address each individual system component or specific system within an industrial facility with equal weight; however, it shall be sufficiently comprehensive to identify the major energy efficiency opportunities for improving the overall energy performance of the system. This Standard is designed to be applied primarily at industrial facilities, but many of the concepts can be used in other facilities such as those in the institutional and commercial sectors.