Browsing IETC - Industrial Energy Technology Conference by Title
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2014)Energy efficiency underlies American manufacturing competitiveness. Improvements in efficiency yield energy cost savings on site, and can have positive spin-off effects through the supply chain. An evaluation of the technical ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1985-05)Manufacturing will change more in the next 15 years than it has in the last 75 years. The reasons are clear ... survival and technology. Unless U.S. companies can compete in a world economy on price, quality, design ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2006)
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(Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu); Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2004)The problem of pricing steam and power from cogeneration systems has confounded engineers, economists, and accountants for a very long time. Normal industry practice is to fix the cost of one (usually power) at its ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1995-04)There is great interest in the large potential market for electric drives in the gas transmission, gas storage, and gas processing industries. Progressive electric utilities and astute vendors are moving to meet the needs ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1987-09)With the general increase in electricity rates, commercial and industrial customers have become strongly motivated to seek methods of achieving reductions in electric bills. At the same time, electric utilities have ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1988-09)Marketing and quality concepts were utilized in developing an employee awareness plan to facilitate long term employee participation that improved energy efficiency 15%. The plan was successfully introduced on a test ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1986-06)ELCON is a group of large industrial consumers of electricity with facilities in most of the 50 states and many foreign countries. Our members produce a wide range of products including steel, aluminum, chemicals, ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1987-09)The economic activity in an area may affect electric utility sales more than other retailers. Statistics show that the KWH consumption per customer is in direct proportion to effective buying income, number of jobs ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 1983)A single master air pressure controller for several machines can reduce air pressure variation by having a single set-point for all machines. This master control when coupled to a sequencing control package allows positively ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1985-05)Presidential Executive Order 12003, dated July 1977, directed all government owned or leased facilities to develop and execute a 10-year Energy Conservation Plan. With facilities in seven states totaling 15 million square ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1994-04)The successful utilization of infrared radiation is dependent on the spectral characteristics of the material being processed and on how well the spectral output of the infrared source matches those of the material being ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1979)The petrochemical industry has long recognized that electrical and mechanical energy can be generated as a by-product of its process steam requirements. Years ago, some petrochemical plants generated all of their own ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1985-05)With the increased emphasis on improved combustion control and the availability of accurate and reliable multi-parameter combustion instrumentation, an analytical technique is needed to supplant the previous incomplete ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2015)
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2009-05)An effective energy performance benchmarking should include a consideration of production rate, product specifications, feedstock mix, and process type, in addition to thermodynamics and economics. Unfortunately, there ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1996-04)The performance correction of systems that have many thermally integrated components is complex and subject to error if individual component misperformance and/or deterioration is present. The performance correction ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2008)This paper presents the potential electrical energy efficiency improvements for utilizing alternating current (AC) motors controlled by variable frequency drives (VFD) in place of direct current (DC) motors to drive plastic ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2008)The current BC Hydro energy-conservation program is called Power Smart and was started in 2001. Of the 1200 projects completed to date over 300 have been in the manufacturing and industrial sector with savings of more than ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1992-04)Over much of the past twenty years the manufacturing industries have led the United States economy in seeking and implementing energy efficiency improvements within the overall goal of improved cost efficiency. Since the ...