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Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome
(2001-07-25)
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is becoming one of the most economically significant diseases of swine. It causes weak, stillborn and mummified pigs, and sometimes losses of entire litters. This ...
Institutional Adjustments for Coping with Prolonged and Severe Drought in the Rio Grande Basin
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2001-02)
The Rio Grande originates in the southern Colorado Rocky Mountains, flows through New Mexico, and forms the border between the U.S. and Mexico on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. Serving over one-million acres of irrigated ...
Resource Conservation in Snack Food Processing
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2001-05)
Frito-Lay, Inc., the world's largest salty snack food company, operates 39 manufacturing facilities in the
U.S. and Canada. Operations in these facilities require substantial amounts of energy and water. In the past, these ...
Corporate Energy Management- Perspectives and Motivations
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2001-05)
There is no product, there is no service that can be provided without the need to expand or consume energy. Since the founding of these United States, our industrial capacity and national wealth had grown to be the greatest ...
The Steam System Scoping Tool: Benchmarking Your Steam Operations Through Best Practices
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2001-05)
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Industrial Technology (DOE-OIT) BestPractice efforts aim to assist U.S. industry in adopting near-term energy-efficient technologies and practices through voluntary technical-assistance ...
Best Practices: The Engineering Approach For Industrial Boilers
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2001-05)
A plant's boilers represent a large capital investment, as well as a crucial portion of overall plant operations, regardless of the industry our customers are in. It is important to have systems and procedures in place to ...
The Future of Steam: A Preliminary Discussion
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2001-05)
Steam production represents a significant proportion of today's industrial energy demand. But the evolution of process technologies, as well as turbulence in energy markets, suggests that steam's role may be subject to ...
DOE/OIT Plant-Wide Energy Assessment Experience Summary
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2001-05)
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) is sponsoring cost-shared, plant-wide energy assessments of industrial facilities through its BestPractices Program. The purpose of these assessments ...
The Development of an Energy Evaluation Tool for Chilled Water Systems
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2001-05)
An energy evaluation tool for chilled water systems was developed. This tool quantifies the energy usage of various chilled water systems and typical energy conservation measures that are applied to these systems. It can ...
Where's the Beef? ConAgra's Approach to Energy Sources & Efficiency in Meat Processing
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2001-05)
ConAgra Foods, Inc. is a diversified international food company. ConAgra operating companies work interdependently across the food chain with 82,000 employees in 35 countries around the world. Sustainable development is a ...