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Showing 1 to 20 of 202 for “"energy usage"”.
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Material impacts on operational energy usage
… those choices may affect the buildings ultimate energy usage and the impact they may have on climate change. This thesis focuses on concrete structures and how the thermal mass and the thermal resistivity influence energy usage. The investigation was done looking at large commercial office …
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Present and future patterns of energy usage in rural areas.
… potential for a greater degree of rural energy autonomy, especially through the medium of increasing integration between agricultural/forestry and domestic sectors, to make better use of rural energy resources". This is investigated by two basic lines of inquiry. A study of the future of …
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General equilibrium impacts of new energy technologies on sectoral energy usage
… shocks. This thesis examines the effects of an energy conversion technology penetration on the crude oil-natural gas price ratio through its influence on sectoral energy use in the U.S. GTL must be less expensive and more efficient, and natural gas prices must be lower, than currently forecast …
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A machine learning pipeline for detecting anomalous energy usage in telecommunications sites
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Improvements to building energy usage modeling during early design stages and retrofits
… to the MIT Design Advisor, a whole-building energy usage modeling tool intended for use during early design stages, are investigated. These include changes to the thermal mass temperature distribution and lighting requirement calculations, the formulation of a representative day scheme to …
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Reducing energy usage in a manufacturing facility through a behavior change based approach
Many companies have developed energy reduction programs for their manufacturing facilities to reduce their operational costs while also decreasing their greenhouse gas emissions. The majority of these manufacturing facilities have made progress in reducing their energy usage through technology …
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Advanced control of combined heat and power systems for optimal energy usage in commercial buildings
Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-113).
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Economic analysis and environmental impact of energy usage in microbusinesses in UK and Kurdistan, Iraq
… fossils fuels and substituting it with renewable energy sources such as wind, tidal and hydroelectric. Solar source seems to be the most promising due to its environmental friendly nature, portability and reliability. This source was examined in terms of microbusinesses such as SMEs including hair …
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Energy usage of agricultural machinery for corn and soybean production in Brazil, India, USA and Zambia
… for the production of corn and soybeans. The energy usage patterns of agricultural machinery were analyzed and compared across four regions including Illinois in the United States, Mato Grosso in Brazil, Madhya Pradesh in India and Zambia in sub-Saharan Africa. Representative farms were set up …
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High-Intensity Discharge Industrial Lighting Design Strategies for the Minimization of Energy Usage and Life-Cycle Cost
Worldwide, the electrical energy consumed by artificial lighting is second only to the amount consumed by electric machinery. Of the energy usage attributed to lighting in North America, approximately fifteen percent is consumed by those lighting products that are classified as High-Intensity …
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Seasonal influent characterization, model calibration, SRT and energy usage for nitrogen removal at a full scale wastewater plant
… below the permit levels, consume the minimum energy in the aeration tanks, provide maximum methane production, and impose the minimum solids loading to the final clarifiers.
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The effect of atrium configurations on energy usage in high-rise office buildings in semi-arid climate of Tehran
… sector is responsible for at least 30% of energy use in most countries worldwide (UN environment, 2017) and around 33% of energy is used by HVAC systems in buildings (Salib & Wood, 2013). As a passive design element, an atrium has the potential to naturally provide heating and cooling, as …
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An empirical investigation of a social accounting issue: a study of the association between energy usage and business risk
… to show that an association exists between the energy usage of manufacturing industries and companies and their risk. This possibility was considered important because of the attention that has been focused on energy problems since the OPEC oil embargo and the interest of investors in the risk …
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The relationship between electricity and economic activity, and the saturation level of the electricity share in the secondary energy usage
… and in manufacturing establishments provides energy to utilize the capital stock. In some processes electricity is a direct input into the production process.
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How can occupancy modeling and occupancy sensors reduce energy usage in academic buildings: An application approach to University of San Francisco
<p>Buildings are amongst the highest energy consumers relative to industry and transportation. They account for 40% of the world’s energy consumption, due to the need for lighting, equipment, heating, cooling and ventilation. Academic buildings are multi-purpose buildings that create a challenge on …
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Analysis of MIT's past and future energy expenditure/
… to expand its facilities, the amount of energy required to run those facilities will also increase. An analysis of future energy usage allows for energy saving systems to be planned before the facilities are complete, and implementation can be started before the energy has been spent. …
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Analysis of a Trigeneration System Through Transient Simulations
… to an entire cooling season to show the primary energy usage of a trigeneration system using an adsorption chiller to meet the cooling load. These results can then be compared to the primary energy usage of a residence with a traditional grid-powered Vapor Compression System (VCS) air …
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Framework and Analytics for Emissions Forecasting and Planning
… find correlations between emissions drivers and energy usage revealed that (1) energy usage with respect to DS production was largely insensitive to changes in production volume for sites with large building areas and (2) as DS production intensifies and requires less space, increases or …
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Wireless energy monitoring system
Monitoring, controlling, and managing the energy usage in houses or buildings are tasks that not many electric power companies can do with the exception of a few. This sort of operations may be important to households who want to monitor and possibly even control and manage their own electrical …
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