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- the use of professional skills for identifying and achieving organizational objectives through the deployment of appropriate resources. Management involves identifying what needs to be done, and organizing and supporting others...
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- DOE's Strategic Planning Process
- Article gives the brief description of DOE's Strategic Plan that identified the four business lines of the Department. Business lines provide the means by which it integrates the department's activities and by which it plans to utilize effectively the unique scientific and technological assets, engineering expertise, and facilities. It influences...
- White papers 2000-09-01
- Creativity
- From the executive summary: ‘Creativity provides the raw intellectual materials – ideas, concepts, insights, and discovery – that eventually become new theories, approaches, tools, products, and services that underlie innovation. Innovation is the adoption and social transmission of creative discovery'. The paper examines different aspects of creativity and discusses the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- This study describes how the EPA was able to reduce the laboratory's annual energy cost by 60% and water consumption by 60%. It is geared toward architects and engineers who are familiar with laboratory buildings and is one in a series produced by Laboratories for the 21st Century, a joint...
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- DER Benefits Analysis Studies: Final Report
- The objectives of this project are to Catalogue at least 30 key quantitative studies reporting on the values and benefits of distributed energy generation technologies including renewables in various applications; and Develop a summary of the studies in matrix format that permits comparisons of key study factors: analysis approach, methodology,...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Procter & Gamble: Compressed Air System Upgrade Saves Energy and Improves Production at a Paper Mill
- P&G is a major producer of consumer goods; it produces and sells a wide range of paper, laundry, cleaning, beauty care, health care, and food and beverage products to more than 5 billion consumers in more than 140 countries. In 2002, Procter & Gamble (P&G) improved the compressed air system...
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- Ohio Aluminum Industries: Compressed Air System Improvement Project Saves Energy and Improves Product Quality
- Ohio Aluminum Industries is an aluminum component producer based in Cleveland, Ohio, and is part of Foundry Systems International FSI Group. In 2001, Ohio Aluminum Industries implemented the first phase of a compressed air system improvement project at its Cleveland, Ohio, plant. Working with Department of Energy Allied Partner, Air...
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- Implementing a Compressed Air System Leak Management Program at an Automotive Plant
- The Monroe plant, located in Monroe, Michigan, employs over 2200 people and produces a variety of structured metal parts such as coil springs, sway bars, driveshafts and catalytic converters for the automotive industry. The leak management program that the Monroe Team developed was unique because it combined the traditional air...
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- The Challenge: Improving the Efficiency of a Tube Drawing Bench
- While GT's headquarters is located in Greenville, Pennsylvania, it's production facility is located in Clarksville, Arkansas. The production process at the Clarksville facility consists of drawing stainless steel tubing through dies to reduce their diameter and/or wall thickness. As a result of the changes implemented by the Showcase Demonstration team,...
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- Mcbroom Electric Teams With Cummins Engine Company to Save an Estimated $200,000 Per Year in Annual Energy Costs
- McBroom Electric Company Inc. initiated and successfully completed the biggest and most complex project in its 66-year history. McBroom put some Motor Challenge tools to use while managing the installation of the energy-efficient motors in Cummins' existing and new machining lines. Cummins decided to change-out an initial 296 existing motors...
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- Optimizing Electric Motor Systems at a Corporate Campus Facility
- The company was founded in 1902, employs about 70,000 people worldwide, and manufactures more than 50,000 products and services for a wide variety of consumer, commercial, professional, and industrial markets. The primary purpose of this project was to emphasize the methodology that was developed to carry out a project of...
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- Energy Team Pursues a Wide Range of Projects to Improve Operations at a Steel Plant
- U.S. Steel Group is part of USX Corporation, which is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The energy team has implemented a wide variety of energy-saving projects on different systems in the plant. A total of forty projects have been completed, with an estimated total annual savings of at least $2 million....
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- Modernization of Electrolysis System at MagCorp Reduces Costs and Waste
- MagCorp formerly Amax is the oldest primary magnesium producer in the United States; the company has provided high-quality magnesium metal ingots to the world market since 1972. To improve the MgCl2 cell-feed purity and electrolyzer performance, MagCorp initiated two separate upgrade projects during the 1990s. The success of this project...
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- Performance Improvements at Wastewater Treatment Plants
- For most facilities, identifying system performance improvements requires a coordinated effort between system operators and management. Operator familiarity with system performance, combined with proper training and management support, can provide useful recommendations that lead to lower system operating costs. Several examples of the success of such teamwork can be found...
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- The Challenge: Improving Sewage Pump System Performance
- Located just north of Bridgeport in southwestern Connecticut, the Town of Trumbull has a population of 32,000 and, with ten sewage pumping stations, a total raw sewage handling capacity of 3.3 million gallons per day. The Town of Trumbull was looking for a way to increase the energy and operating...
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- The Challenge: Saving Energy at a Sewage Lift Station Through Pump System Modifications
- The City of Milford, located just south of New Haven, Connecticut, operates 37 sewage stations that serve more than 48,000 people. To determine whether or not energy savings could be realized at the lift station, team engineers developed a test plan based upon the systems approach. The new system includes...
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- The Challenge: Improving the Performance of a Waste-to-Energy Facility
- The City of Long Beach, California was looking for a way to improve the operational efficiency of its Southeast Resource Recovery Facility SERRF, a recycling and solid waste-to-energy plant. To increase system efficiency, the Showcase Demonstration team retrofitted each of the three induced draft fan systems with VFDs, designed to...
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- Distributed Generation: Understanding the Economics
- Three independent trends - utility industry restructuring, increasing system capacity needs, and technology advancements?are concurrently laying the groundwork for the possible widespread introduction of DG. DG refers to the integrated or stand-alone use of small, modular electric generation close to the point of consumption. This white paper is one in...
- White papers 2002-10-21
- The Future of Absorption Technology in America: A Critical Look at the Impact of BCHP and Innovation
- This paper describes about using the Advanced Building Systems. Electric restructuring in America will lead to a re-powering over the next 20 years. DOE/EIA projects that the US will need to build over 360 Gig watts of new electric capacity to meet growing demand and compensate for plant retirements. This...
- White papers 2000-06-16
- Distributed Gas Turbine of the Future Workshop Proceedings
- This document is a summary of the proceedings of Distributed Gas Turbine workshop. It captures the comments and ideas that were exchanged, and summarizes the major themes that were expressed throughout the workshop. On June 4, 2003, more than 30 participants representing the gas turbine industry, federal and state agencies,...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Industrial Distributed Generation Program
- This paper describes about Industrial Distributed Generation Program. The Industrial DG Program conducts RD&D on high value commercial and industry applications of DER, demonstrating the benefits of DER in the market place. Its goal is to overcome institutional market barriers and stimulate deployment of DER in industrial and commercial applications....
- White papers 2001-12-10
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