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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"operations and maintenance costs"”.
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An evaluation of lime residuals management alternatives for water utilities
… of the water treatment process, which are inert and non-hazardous. This report provides an environmental and economic evaluation of three lime residuals disposal alternatives: a registered disposal site, beneficially reusing the lime residuals in cement manufacturing, and recalcinating the …
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Commonality of ground systems in launch operations
… a certain degree of commonality in both flight and ground systems in the Constellation Program. While the benefits of commonality seem obvious in terms of minimizing upfront development and long-term operations and maintenance costs, success in real, large-scale engineering systems used to …
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Economic analysis of Navy ownership vs leasing of vehicles
… of Defense funding coupled with rising costs, Congressional appropriations for procurement of administrative use motor vehicles, such as pickup trucks for the Navy, have fallen short of the amount required to replace older vehicles which have reached the end of their economic life. As a …
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Modularity in design of the MIT Pebble Bed Reactor
… on the ability of designers to reduce capital, operations, and maintenance costs. One of the methods proposed, is to enhance the modularity of the designs in which the basic plant is broken down into modules, each of which is built offsite at a "factory", transported to the plant site, and …
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Cost and benefit of energy efficient buildings
A common misconception among developers and policy-makers is that "sustainable buildings" may not be financially justified. However, this report strives to show that building green is cost-effective and does make financial sense today. Though green buildings typically have a higher upfront cost …
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An analysis of the viability and competitiveness of DC microgrids in northern India
The electrification of rural and remote villages in developing countries poses major challenges. While extension of the central power grid offers economies of scale in generation and transmission, distribution infrastructure to reach remote areas can be prohibitively costly to install and maintain. …
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Green development : creating incentives for developers
… in the fields of sustainable architecture and 'green' building design is not matched in practice. This is due to a rather limited research on the economical side of sustainable strategies and a lack of incentives to push developers and investors into a trend still perceived to be very …
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Economic analysis of an integrated generator-rectifier system for offshore wind farms
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Remediation of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances by pilot-scale applications of advanced water treatment technologies
The widespread use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and the associated long-range transport and recalcitrance in the environment has led to the contamination of water resources worldwide. Most conventional water treatment methods are ineffective against PFASs and while the removal of …