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The New Approach to Strategic Energy Planning
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1989-09)
The changing industrial energy market is placing a
new emphasis on the strategic element of energy planning. No longer a "lowest-cost analysis" discipline, successful energy planning today involved a sophisticated approach ...
Adjustable Speed Drive Industrial Applications
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1989-09)
Electric motors are significant users of electricity in the United States. Approximately 66 percent of the total electricity in the U.S. is used by electric motors. Electronic adjustable speed drives (ASDs) can save energy, ...
Do You Have Adequate Staffing to Keep Costs Under Control?
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1989-09)
Competitive pressures have forced companies to seek reduced costs through reduced staffing. The emphasis has been on fixed cost control at the expense of some loss in variable cost control. Restructuring through reduced ...
Dow and Independent Power-- Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1989-09)
Innovative and Progressive Electric Utility Demand-Side Management Strategies
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1989-09)
Conservation of electric energy has been a concern of energy users in the residential, commercial and industrial sectors for several decades, and has increased in significance since the 1973 energy shortages. During this ...
Pinch Retrofits Provide Cost-Effective Plant Uprating Potential
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1989-09)
In today's economic environment, the need for increased production rivals the desire for energy efficiency for plant operators in many sectors of the process industries. This, in turn, places additional demands on the ...
A Portable Expert System for Gas Turbine Maintenance
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1989-09)
Combustion turbines for electric power generation and industrial applications have steadily increased in size, efficiency and prominence. The newest class of gas turbine-generators coming into service will deliver 150 ...
Evaluating Benefits with Independent and Cogenerated Power Production
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1989-09)
New generation planning concepts must be developed which
recognize an expanded list of "stakeholders", (e.g. IPP's, ·cogenerators, industrial hosts, utility shareholders and rate
payers), and additional technical issues ...
Qualifying Facility Wheeling Task Force-- Status Report
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1989-09)
In early 1989, Central Power and Light Company received a request from the Coastal Corporation to wheel power from an affiliate (Coastal Refining) cogeneration facility to 28 remote installations owned by other affiliates. ...
Computer Techniques for Cogeneration Plant Design and Testing
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1989-09)
This paper describes the three-step application of a computer program that is used for plant design and testing. In the first step, cogeneration plant energy balances are analyzed to select and design the major equipment ...