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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Plant Engineering"”.
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Designing the Enterprise Architecture of an Innovative Plant Engineering Company
… to decarbonize its pivotal industrial sector. Plant engineering companies, which form the core of manufacturing and energy-related businesses, are expected to contribute to addressing these challenges. This thesis analyzes and proposes solutions to overcome the innovation dilemmas faced by …
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Solar Augmentation of Process Steam Boilers for Cogeneration
… of converting an existing process steam plant into a combined heat and power plant, using an external solar thermal field as the additional heat source was studied. Technical feasibility entailed designing a suitable heat exchanger, which uses hot oil from the solar field to raise the …
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Erforschung eines unternehmerischen Erfolgsfaktorenmodells in den Visegrád-Staaten - Eine Analyse am Beispiel des mittelständischen Maschinenanlagenbaus aus dem Bundesland Niederösterreich
… SMEs working in the field of mechanical and plant engineering – a sector of high economic relevance for SMEs active in the Visegrád Group. Besides investigating internal and external factors, corporate network effects are analysed. In this light, the subject of the study was limited to SMEs …
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Quality management system to improve conveyor system performance : Lethabo Power Station as case study
… Power Station experienced a number of ash plant conveyor failures that resulted in production loss and plant damages. This study was aimed at determining the root causes of the failures (technical, management system and process) that led to conveyor unreliability. The problem was verified …
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Structural studies on the biosynthesis and biological functions of natural products
… and provide valuable guidance in engineering these compounds towards improved efficacy. In this dissertation I present such studies on several natural products produced by bacteria and plants. Teicoplanin is a glycopeptide antibiotic produced by Actinoplanes teichomyceticus and has …
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Using auxiliary gas power for CCS energy needs in retrofitted coal power plants
… CO 2 emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. Much of the literature proposes using power from the existing coal plant and thermal integration of its supercritical steam cycle with the stripper reboiler to supply the energy needed for solvent regeneration and CO2 compression. This study …
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Modelling of the deaerator system in Flownex
… and dynamic behaviour of thermal power plants is of interest and significant benefit in different engineering fields ranging from research and design, to the assistance of operator training, plant optimization, fault finding and failure analysis. In light of the these benefits, and the …
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Aggregation Pheromone Biosynthesis and Engineering in Plants for Stinkbug Pest Management
… involved in pheromone biosynthesis may allow engineering of pheromone biosynthetic pathways in plants to develop new forms of trap crops and agricultural practices for pest management. The harlequin bug, Murgantia histrionica, a specialist pest on crucifer crops, produces the sesquiterpene, …
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Vulnerability of Coal- and Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants to Climate Change
… will reduce the efficiency (η) of thermoelectric plants by 0.12-0.45% for each 1°C of warming. In Chapter 2, we evaluate these predictions using historical performance data for 39 open- and closed-loop, coal and natural gas plants from across the U.S., which operated under daily and seasonal …