energy efficiency benchmarking Articles
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Benchmarking weather sensitive plant level manufacturing energy use
Energy intensity of manufacturing varies due to the products produced and the efficiency of production. For some sectors a portion of the energy demand is weather sensitive. This paper applies stochastic frontier regression to auto assembly and pharmaceuticals. The effects of production, utilisation and weather on energy are estimated. The differences in efficiency are captured by a one-sided ...
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Qualifying Combined Heat and Power (CHP) activity
The EU 2002 draft and 2004 final CHP Directives propose qualifying CHP activity with the quality norm. This norm benchmarks the energy efficiency of CHP plant outputs on external reference power and heat efficiencies. Because the quality norm amalgamates cogeneration and condensing activity its application entails particular perverse effects for high-quality and adapted scale investment in CHP ...
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Pump energy efficiency field testing and benchmarking in Canada
A large-scale pump performance and efficiency testing program was conducted across the province of Ontario (Canada) involving testing more than 150 water pumps in eight municipal water supply and distribution systems. The program's objectives included raising awareness of the state of pump energy efficiencies and opportunities for energy conservation, as well as the development of a ...
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Solvay Specialty Polymers - 8 MW CHP System - Case Study
Quick Facts LOCATION: Marietta, Ohio MARKET SECTOR: Chemical CHP GENERATING CAPACITY: 8 MW PRIME MOVER: Solar Taurus 70 gas turbine FUEL: Natural Gas HEAT RECOVERY EQUIPMENT: 150,000 lb/hr HRSG with fresh air firing capability Two 80,000 lb/hr package boilers HEAT RECOVERY RATE: Up to 150,000 lb/hr of 300 psig process steam USE OF THERMAL ENERGY: Process heating ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS: ...
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Why use Dashboards to Implement your Energy Efficiency Plan
Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to take steps to improve your energy consumption but didn't know where to start? Maybe you have already heard of Energy Dashboards? Today, we would like to introduce you to this reporting tool that can provide you with precious information about your energy consumption, in a form that you can understand it easily and use it as a basis for taking ...
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Why President Obama’s better buildings initiative doesn’t work for multifamily
You might think by this headline that I’m about to rant about the news regarding energy efficiency policy that was circulating last week. President Obama outlined a plan called the Better Buildings Initiative to incentivize energy efficiency in commercial buildings during his visit to Penn State. Actually, I want to explain why multifamily energy management struggles with this type of ...
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Criteria to select energy efficiency metrics to measure performance of data centre
The progress and expansion of data centre industry is driven by ever growing business domains, end user applications from consumers and performance improvement limitations. Due to continuous increase in the size and magnitude of these tier level data centres there is a continuous demand for energy consumption and emission of greenhouse gases that has started to limit further performance ...
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