Energy Management Articles
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Briquettes - A Perfect Replacement of Fossil Fuel for Manufacturing Facilities
Large scale manufacturing units highly depend on fossil fuel, which not just pollutes environment, but also increases their overall cost. Briquettes make a perfect substitute of fossil fuel. Industrial briquetting press can produce high quantity of briquettes to meet with huge demand. Find out other benefits of briquettes for manufacturing units. Effective waste management as well as environment ...
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US plant shutdowns, grid focus drive storage growth: Greensmith CEO
Power plant closures and hiking transmission costs are driving up US utilities’ investment in renewable energy storage, John Jung, CEO of Greensmith, an energy storage services firm, told Wind Energy Update. Some 60 GW of US coal-fired capacity is set to close between 2012 and 2020, according to the EIA. Nuclear plant lifespans will end and the US plans $180bn in planned transmission ...
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Ground Source Heat Pump installed in eco house
This case study looks at a ground source heat pump being installed in London. A Ground Source Heat Pump was chosen as a sustainable and energy efficient way to provide 100% space heating and hot water for this 550m2 new build eco-house in East London. A Heat Recovery Mechanical Ventilation System was also utilised, which, together with Solar Thermal hot water and LED lighting give this stunning ...
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Group Of 37 senators call for EPA to issue a strong final 2014 RFS
On April 23, 2015, a bi-partisan group of 37 Senators led by Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Dick Durbin (D-IL), John Thune (R-SD), Al Franken (D-MN), and Mark Kirk (R-IL) sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy urging a strong final 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The full list of 37 co-signors and text of the letter is available ...
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EPA requests comment on analysis of Carinata oil feedstock
On April 24, 2015, EPA released a Federal Register notice inviting comment on analysis of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced during the production and transport of Brassica carinata (carinata) oil feedstock for use in the production of biofuels. The plant is not used for food in the U.S., and has high concentrations of erucic acid, making it attractive for use in biolubricants and ...
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Sydney Central Park district energy scheme reduces carbon emissions using tri-generation - Case Study
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA: Clarke Energy has secured sales to expand the award winningCentral Park district energy scheme in Sydney, New South Wales. Clarke Energy to supply an additional 1.1MWe of gas-fuelled generation capacity to expand the existing installation at Central Park in Sydney The tri-generation plant will enable Central Park to reduce carbon emissions by up to 40%, equivalent to ...
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Cheapest Solar Panels for Homes to Reduce Utility Bills and Save On Inflationary Costs
With each passing day, the number of homeowners using solar panels is growing in leaps and bounds. As their name suggests, these panels provide electric energy by tapping sunlight. It might as well be mentioned that it is a bit difficult to use them in cloudy areas. However, that should not be reason enough not to use these eco-friendly panels for your homes. There are a number of dealers ...
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Power use methods for optimal design of WDS: history and their use as post-optimization warm starts
This paper describes an extension to the optimal power use surface (OPUS) methodology, which consists of applying a metaheuristic post-optimization process after a network has been designed through the OPUS algorithm. Four different types of metaheuristics were tested in this study. The OPUS methodology focuses on the setting up of efficient ways in which energy is dissipated and flow is ...
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Benchmarking platforms: why more knowledge means more leverage
Greater plant owner demand for high speed computing and benchmarking data analysis platforms will cause rapid development of power upgrade packages and create a basis for further OEM innovation. High speed computing is making a major difference in wind data analysis. Today, major advances in time series and spatial analysis as well as the wake models used to estimate losses are possible because ...
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Enhanced photobactericidal activity of ZnO nanorods modified by meso-tetrakis(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin under visible LED lamp irradiation
In this study, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods have been synthesized using a simple template-free precipitation technique and deposited on glass substrate. The meso-tetrakis(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin (TPPS) has been synthesized and then immobilized on the surface of ZnO nanorods to prepare an organic/inorganic composite. The samples were characterized by various techniques such as X-ray ...
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Evaluating alternatives for decommissioning California's offshore oil and gas platforms
This paper introduces a series of six additional papers in this issue that describe an in‐depth analysis of options for decommissioning oil and gas platforms offshore southern California. While current leases require lessees in both state and federal waters to completely remove all production facilities and restore the seafloor to its pre‐platform condition, other options have emerged since ...
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Best Solar Panel Companies Entrust Work To Qualified Supervisors
The companies that install solar panels have increased in recent times. Homeowners can get information on everything they need to know about their home electricity consumption. The professional experts from solar power companies specialized in providing guidelines for making home with clean solar energy reliant. The professional companies of repute have experienced engineers to handle every ...
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EU restricts use of first generation biofuels to promote advanced biofuels
On April 14, 2015, Members of the European Parliament and certain ministers agreed to limit how biofuels derived from agricultural crops would be accounted for in the European Union's (EU) goal to increase the use of renewable energy. The new law caps the use of first generation biofuels to seven percent of the total energy use being counted towards the EU's renewable energy goal of ten percent. ...
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DOE releases first installment of its quadrennial energy review
On April 21, 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the initial installment of its Quadrennial Energy Review (QER). This first installment focuses on ways to modernize the U.S. energy infrastructure to increase the country's energy competitiveness and security. In its QER, DOE points out that while U.S. biofuel production has increased significantly over the past decade -- due largely ...
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10 ton CFB Power Plant Boiler
This type of boilers is very popular in recent years. Energy saving circulating fluidized bed power plant boiler mainly used for large central heating, thermal power plants to generate electricity or other purposes Type: ZG Capacity/Hot Power:35 ~ 670t/h ZG Pressure: 1.25 ~ 13.7 MPa ZG Temperature: 450 ~ 560 ? Energy-saving circulating fluidized bed power plant ...
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SOCAVER Thermal Gas Supply - Case Study
SOCAVER (Société Camerounaise de Verrerie) is a subsidiary of the leading Cameroon brewery, SABC (Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun). SOCAVER, which is the only glass factory in the Central Africa region, blew its first bottle on 1 July 1970 and today supplies a host of African countries with its products. Specialising in the manufacture of hollow glass, ...
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Brazil transmission: what impact on O&M?
Brazilian wind developers may increasingly have to factor transmission links into their operations and maintenance (O&M) plans if grid connection delays persist in the market. Bloomberg earlier this year reported that firms such as CPFL Energia, Brazil’s largest private sector utility, with more than 1.3GW of wind farms in operation or under construction, were stepping forward to bid ...
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InfraSpec VFA-IR Spectrometer for Biodiesel Blend Measurements
Synopsis: Simple, yet powerful, filter-based IR spectrometers are ideal for compliance to the new ASTM 7861 test method for accurately measuring biodiesel blend ratios. The Wilks InfraSpec analyzer was the instrument used to develop and validate this method and thus is the industry standard for field measurement of FAME (Fatty Acid Methyl Ester) blend percentages. Introduction: Biodiesel is a ...
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EPA announces timeline for renewable fuel standards
On April 10, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lodged with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia a proposed consent decree to resolve litigation challenging the delay in issuing Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) for 2014 and 2015 brought by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) against EPA. The consent ...
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DECC achieved higher energy and carbon saving by rolling out LED lighting more widely - Case Study
Since the creation of DECC on 3 October 2008, we have been engaged in an ambitious and wide-reaching programme to reduce our energy consumption and improve our overall sustainability. By 2013/14 we had cut our energy use by 42% and carbon emissions from our estate by 38 % since DECC was established in 2008. Carbon emissions per full time employee have also been slashed from 1.93 t/CO2 to 0.6 ...
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