By Dave Nolan / Published on Mon, 2009-10-19 21:33
Too often, energy costs are merely viewed upon as a necessary overhead. Many claim that energy management is one of the most promising profit improvement-cost reduction programmes available today.
Energy Management offers an opportunity for facilities managers to bring themselves into the boardroom. I am completing a MSc in facilities management and I need your help in a study for my dissertation that intends to establish a Best Practice (a step by step process to implementing specific energy conservation measures to reduce costs and increase efficiency).
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By Sergio Ferreira / Published on Thu, 2009-05-14 07:53
This PhD Thesis Report is courtesy of Joseph Michael Marriott, Carnegie Mellon University
The electricity industry is extremely important to both our economy and our environment: we would like to examine the economic, environmental and policy implications of both future electricity technologies and the interaction of this industry with the rest of the economy. However, the tools which currently exist to analyse the potential impacts are either too complex or too aggregated to provide this type of information.
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By Wim Deprez / Published on Tue, 2009-05-12 22:51
In this work, some fundamental aspects concerning the efficiency of induction machines are treated. The standards and the therein prescribed methods for the determination of the energy efficiency of induction machines are discussed. A detailed comparison of the four most relevant and recent methods identifies the differences. By means of measurement results of different machines, the differences between and the shortcomings of certain methods is confirmed. In that context, special attention is paid to the new, so-called ‘Eh-Y’ method.
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