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Steam Quality
(Energy Systems Laboratory, 1989-09)
"STEAM QUALITY has been generally defined as the amount of moisture/vapor (or lack thereof) contained within steam produced from some form of boiler. It has long been used as the standard term for the measurement of ""wet ...
No Company Is An Island
(Energy Systems Laboratory, 1989-09)
No company is an island. Utilities and their industrial customers are discovering that collaboration can breed opportunity while isolation can lead to ruin. Inter company relationships have changed over recent years and ...
An Assessment of the Technical Feasibility of Cogenerator Participation in the ERCOT Broker and Economy Programs
(Energy Systems Laboratory, 1989-09)
Utilities in Texas have several methods to exchange economy and emergency power under rules established by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). The power exchanges permit utilities with temporary surplus ...
Vibration Assessment Of Variable Speed Vertically Mounted Pumps
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1989)
Analytical and experimental assessments of the vibration characteristics are described for two 700 hp, vertically mounted centrifugal service water pumps following their conversion from fixed speed to variable speed ...
Materials For Centrifugal Compressors - A Progress Report.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1989)
Progress in materials for centrifugal compressors over the last twenty years is reviewed. Specific areas discussed include:
• Impeller materials and fabricating procedures.
• Shaft manufacture, processing, and testing.
• ...
Maximizing An Ethylene Plant's Turbomachinery Reliability.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1989)
The ethylene plant in DuPont's major petrochemical complex
in Orange, Texas was designed and built in the late 1960s,
using the latest proven technology of that period. From plant
startup in 1967 to 1981, there were ...
Updating Texas Energy Cost Containment Audit Reports
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 1989)
In 1984 and 1986, 35.3 million square feet of
state owned buildings were audited to identify
cost saving retrofit projects. Originally
intended for direct legislative funding or bond
sales, funding became available in 1989 ...
An Evaluation of Georgia's Institutional Conservation Program Preliminary Report - June 1989
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 1989)
The Institutional Conservation Program (ICP) has been active in Georgia since 1980 and has distributed over $20 million in matching funds for conservation measures and energy studies. The purpose of the ICP is to reduce ...
Don't Worry Be Happy, The Music Man's Approach to Selling Industrial Energy Management
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 1989)
The pressure is on to shape load. Some utilities are
looking for ways to reduce peak; others are looking for
conservation; and still others need to improve load factor.
The fact is, there is not a utility in the country ...
Predicting Energy Usage in a Supermarket
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu)Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 1989)
Very little is known about the energy using
systems in commercial and retail stores, which
consume 24.8% of the energy used by all commercial
buildings. This paper describes development of a
change-point regression model ...