Energy Monitoring Articles
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A Green Cloud is a Transparent Cloud
Guest Blogger, Energy Efficiency Markets At Connectivity Week in Santa Clara, recently, I took part in a series of panel discussions on data center energy efficiency. The discussions covered a wide range of issues from the practicalities of infrastructure optimization to the possible role of data centers in demand response schemes. There was a particular focus on the importance, and also the ...
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Energy Sustainability
I1.1 | A Fifteen Year Roadmap Toward Complete Energy Sustainability Andrew Frank | Professor, University of Calif-Davis Transitioning to a Renewable Energy based Society Without Fossil Fuels in 15 years using The Existing Energy Infrastructure Sterling Watson Principal Investigator and Prof Andrew A. Frank Univ. of CA- Davis The purpose of this paper is to show that we can transition from ...
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Salisbury district hospital saves 10% of its steam production with GEM steam traps
Salisbury District Hospital is saving approximately 10% of its steam consumption following the installation of Thermal Energy International’s GEM venturi orifice steam traps, which is providing the hospital with significant energy savings. Together with other energy saving incentives already introduced, the GEM traps have helped ensure that the hospital is working towards the ...
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Coal Fired Boiler two-stage flue gas desulfurization (FGD)
A major pulp and paper mill located in New England, USA was faced with a control order to reduce SO2 and a schedule challenge to meet the order deadline and steam requirements. In addition, the customer was looking for ways to save reagent cost. Macrotek was selected to design and build two wet FGD systems for two 100,000 lbs/hr medium sulfur coal fired boilers. The design included a two-stage ...
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Is the energy efficiency service markets still MUSH?
We hear a lot about energy efficiency these days, but who is actually pursuing it? In recent years most of the big players that install efficiency measures, the energy service companies (ESCos), have found work largely in the MUSH market: municipal and state governments, universities, schools and hospitals. In fact, a report in June 2010 by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National ...
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Solid waste gasification pollution abatement - Case study
Catalytic Products International has partnered with a Gasification System Designer in the design and supply of a unique thermal oxidizer for use with a closed loop batch pyrolysis gasification system. The gasifier is engineered to create a clean combustible syngas from a broad spectrum of dissimilar carbonbased solids, liquids, and other feedstocks. The QUADRANT NR – SEVERE DUTY Thermal ...
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Wolselely`s Sustainable Building Centre: Showcasing the now
This European and North American building products wholesaler employs more than 80,000 people in 5,000 distribution centres, including 1,800 branches across the UK. One of the newest additions to the network is in Leamington Spa and is designed to showcase sustainable building technology. Business insight The construction sector has a key role to play in relation to a range of ...
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Supply optimisation - the energy silver bullet?
Double digit price rises in the cost of gas and electricity have once more brought home the need for an immediate increase in the intensity with which the UK embraces the transition to a 'green economy'. Such price rises have a dual effect on business. Not only are they putting a squeeze on the budgets of energy managers across the country, but they are also making the business case for energy ...
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Food cooler unit at grocery store
Namdhari’s Fresh Foods, with its headquarters in Bangalore is a progressive supplier of quality food products in India. Fresh food is kept cool and this cooling is critical to the preservation of quality. With a view to reducing energy, while at the same time having reliable cooling, Namdhari asked Protronix Energy Private Ltd. to monitor and treat an open frame food cooler at one of its ...
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Electrical heating for the removal of recalcitrant organic compounds
ABSTRACT This paper presents a remediation technology that combines electrical heating of the soil with extraction to achieve removal of vapour pressure sensitive compounds, such as chlorinated solvents, volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds, and heavier hydrocarbons. This technology is commercially known as the Electro-Thermal Dynamic Stripping Process (ET-DSP). As well the results of a ...
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Energy efficiency and Weight Watchers
By Elisa Wood April 27, 2011 We’ve been hearing for years that the energy efficiency industry needs to find its equivalent to the cell phone. These days industry folks refer to it as the ‘killer app,” the revolutionary product or service that consumers can’t resist. But lately, partly because I’m dieting, I’ve been thinking what energy efficiency really needs ...
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EPA issues final rules for boilers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that more than 200,000 boilers, process heaters and incinerators will be impacted by a set of Clean Air Act regulations issued on February 21, 2011. Since EPA first proposed the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rules in April 2010, several industry sectors have argued the costs of implementing the rules would pose an unreasonable ...
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High wire act: electricity transmission infrastructure and its impact on the renewable energy market
Renewable energy (RE)—electricity from wind, solar, and other naturally renewing energy sources— has drawn increasing attention in the quest to reduce greenhouse gases on a scale commensurate with the dictates of climate science. Renewables have the potential to substitute for a significant proportion of the conventional fossil fuels prevalent in today’s electricity generation. ...
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The seven levers of energy management: A formula for success
Remember when energy was easy? You got a bill from the utility and you paid it. Then came the deregulation of natural gas, then electricity, the need to audit bills, energy service companies with their shared savings models, risk management, demand response programs, smart meters, carbon footprinting and incentives for renewables. Back then, nobody bothered you much about energy either. Today, ...
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White paper and audio series: Exporting US energy efficiency: Reaching growing international markets
Is it time for your company to move into international markets Our new white paper and audio series can help.Written by veteran energy journalists Elisa Wood and Lisa Cohn – based on interviews with government trade officials and US companies – the white paper describes: The market and political forces that make now the time for US companies to begin exporting energy efficiency. ...
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New energy efficiency guidance for data centres
New guidance for data centres will incorporate new metrics covering water usage, energy recovery and the energy efficiency of operation of computing resources. The Green Grid, a global consortium of manufacturers and operators aiming to improving the energy efficiency of data centres, has launched the Data Centre Maturity Model (DCMM), a new guidance to help data centres reduce their ...
By Vital Energi
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A model for assessment of energy utilisation within an urban centre
This paper presents development of a model for analysis of energy and exergy utilisation within an urban centre of Calgary, Canada. The analysis began with the detailed assessment of energy resource utilisation patterns and energy flows across six different energy consuming sectors, namely energy generation, residential, commercial, industrial, transportation and agricultural. For each sector, ...
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Energy efficiency could save the car industry up to £50m a year
New study found that automotive industry could make significant savings, often only resulting from zero or very low cost energy efficiency measures. New study from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) claims that the UK’S car dealerships could save up to £50m and 300,000 tonnes of carbon emissions each year, often only resulting from small changes like resetting ...
By Vital Energi
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A modular approach for classification and location of arcing and non-arcing faults on transmission lines
This paper presents a modular approach for detection, classification and location of transmission line faults using wavelet transform along with intelligent techniques. By using wavelet Multiresolution Analysis (MRA), summation of detail coefficients is extracted for three-phase fault currents. These detail coefficients constitute the edifice for classification and location of faults. The ...
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Voltage Optimisation can improve schools energy efficiency by up to 25%
Voltage Optimisation is a key component in any energy efficiency programme and could deliver up to 25% savings on electricity bills. In April the registration period for the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme will start again. Local authorities and companies with a portfolio of private schools will face sizeable fines unless they account for their energy use and make ...
By Vital Energi
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