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- The article describes about Heating & AC Systems. In order to provide the greatest amount of daylight penetration yet minimize solar heat gain, large windows were chosen?7 feet high (2.1 m) in a 9-foot (2.7 m) ceiling?as well as high visible-light transmission glass (0.40 and 0.66) with a good shading...
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- Compressed Air System Retrofit Increases Productivity at a Petroleum Packaging Facility
- A compressed air system improvement project was implemented at the Mobil lubrication plant in Vernon, California. The compressed air system was modified because the plant was retooled into a distribution facility that uses comparatively less energy. The impending need to replace the aging compressors, coupled with the change in the...
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- Compressed Air System Upgrade Generates Significant Energy Savings at a Steel Mill
- U. S. Steel Group, a unit of USX Corporation, is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USX is a major worldwide producer of oil and natural gas, as well as the largest producer of steel products in the U.S. The Edgar Thomson plant engineers reviewed their compressed air system and realized that...
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- Compressed Air System Upgrade Improves Production at a Steel Mill
- U.S. Steel Group, a unit of USX Corporation, is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USX is a major worldwide producer of oil and natural gas, as well as the largest producer of steel products in the United States. The Edgar Thomson plant engineers reviewed their compressed air system and realized that...
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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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- Using Coke Oven Gas in a Blast Furnace Saves Over $6 Million Annually at a Steel Mill
- U.S. Steel Group is part of USX Corporation, which is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Coke is an essential input to the steel-making process and is produced by heating coal in coke ovens. The boilers supply steam for electricity generation, turbine-driven equipment such as pumps and fans, and for process heat....
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- FMC Chemicals: Burner Management System Upgrade Improves Performance and Saves Energy at a Chemical Plant
- FMC Chemicals Corporation is one of the world's foremost, diversified chemical companies with leading positions in agricultural, industrial and consumer markets. In December 2001, the Green River Plant's personnel underwent some DOE-sponsored training on steam system efficiency and methodologies for evaluating industrial steam systems. By replacing the poorly functioning Burner...
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- New Steam Turbine Saves Chemical Manufacturer $2.3 Million Annually
- Located in Houston, Texas, the Texas Petrochemicals Corporation is one of the largest manufacturers of an emission-reducing octane booster for gasoline. TPC utilizes a boiler system to produce steam that drives two turbines. One turbine powers a generator that produces electricity and the other drives a compressor used in the...
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- Rebuilding Steam Turbine Generator Reduces Costs at a Steel Mill
- The Burns Harbor Facility, located on about 1,700 acres on the shores of Lake Michigan, is BSC's largest and most efficient plant. BSC considered a number of options to improve the efficiency and upgrade the capacity of turbine #5. Work normally performed during a scheduled. The upgraded turbine and other...
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- Making Connections: Case Studies of Interconnection Barriers and Their Impact on Distributed Power Projects
- Today there is growing interest in distributed electricity generation, particularly onsite generation. This interest is stimulated by the reliability, power quality, and environmental needs of business and homeowners, as well as the availability of more efficient, environmentally friendly, modular electric generation technologies, such as microturbines, fuel cells, photovoltaics, and small...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- Demonstration of Cogeneration in the Dyeing Industry
- Compudye, dye plant in New York City, serving the apparel and knitwear industries. The company spends about $300,000 per year for water use and disposal. In the last quarter of 2001, a reverse-osmosis system was installed at the plant to reduce energy consumption by 420,000 therms. This will result in...
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- Advanced Generation: Microturbine Systems
- Microturbines are a new type of combustion turbine for use in stationary energy generation applications. About the size of a refrigerator, microturbines produce 25 to 500 kW of energy and can be located on sites with limited space for power production. Waste heat recovery can be used in advanced cooling,...
- White papers 2002-06-11
- Thermally Activated Technologies: Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power
- Approximately two-thirds of the fuel used to generate electricity in the United States is wasted in the form of discarded heat. Combined heat and power systems produce electricity or mechanical power and capture recoverable heat for process use. Currently, only 7 percent of this country's electricity is provided by cooling,...
- White papers 2002-06-11
- Combined Heat & Power Program for Buildings, Industry and District Energy
- Approximately two-thirds of the fuel used to generate electricity in the U.S. is wasted in the form of discarded heat. This document provides a technological overview on combined heat and power CHP systems that produce electricity or mechanical power and recapture waste heat for process use. Various technologies are used...
- White papers 2001-02-01
- Advanced Microturbine System: Market Assessment
- This report presents a composite picture of the market for microturbines based on the GE and Capstone development efforts and previous market analysis undertaken by the developers as part of the AMTS program. Except for waste fuel applications, meeting the full AMTS goals provides 2-3 times the economic market of...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- The Role of Distributed Energy Resources in Optimizing Energy Use for Ski Area Operations
- This study explores the role that Distributed Energy Resources DER can play towards optimizing energy management at U.S. ski resorts. This study is based on energy consumption data collected through prior energy assessments and from monthly billings from energy providers. It was outside the scope of this study to collect...
- White papers 2004-09-22
- National and State Environmental Issues: Implications for Reciprocating Engines
- This presentation introduces and presents some data on the Reciprocating internal combustion engines RICE, which are uniquely suited to play a key role in the development and deployment of advanced distributed energy DE systems. RICE is reliable, efficient, well-adapted to combined heat and power CHP installations, and can yield significant...
- White papers 2002-04-26
- Clean Distributed Generation Performance and Cost Analysis
- This assessment examines the performance, cost, and timing of ultra-low emissions CHP technologies driven by certain air quality regions in the United States. The technologies considered in this assessment are natural gas fueled industrial gas turbines, reciprocating engines, microturbines, and fuel cells in the 75 kW to 10 MW size...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Distributed Energy Technologies
- Distributed energy resources offer power companies and customers advantages that are not available from centralized electricity generation. Moving energy supplies closer to the point of end use through such technologies as microturbines, reciprocating engines, and gas turbines promises important economic, environmental, and reliability gains. Integration of distributed energy systems with...
- White papers 2004-07-19
- Gas-Fired Distributed Energy Resource Technology Characterizations
- This report describes the current status and future potential of six natural gas-fired distributed energy resource technologies through the year 2030. This paper provides information on CHP technology basics. CHP technologies utilize both electricity and heat generated from a single source. These systems recover heat that normally would be wasted...
- White papers 2004-07-16
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