Specific energy consumption values for various refrigerated food cold stores [PDF]
Energy and Buildings, 2014 Two benchmarking surveys were created to collect data on the performance of chilled, frozen and mixed (chilled and frozen stores operated from a single refrigeration system) food cold stores with the aim of identifying the major factors influencing energy consumption.
J.A. Evans +10 more
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Thermoelectric heating and cooling for efficient membrane distillation
Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021 This study introduces the concept of thermoelectric desalination which involves deploying an electrically-powered self-contained direct contact membrane distillation (EPSCD) system for efficient desalination.
Olawale Makanjuola +2 more
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Integration of Energy Saving with Lean Production in a Food Processing Company
Journal of Machine Engineering, 2021 The specific energy consumption (SEC) is a key performance indicator used to measure the energy consumed per product. This work focuses on studying the impact of implementing lean production concepts on decreasing the SEC in any organization.
Sameh A. Salah, Ahmad Mustafa
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Low-Power Appliance Monitoring Using Factorial Hidden Markov Models [PDF]
, 2013 To optimize the energy utilization, intelligent energy management solutions require appliance-specific consumption statistics. One can obtain such information by deploying smart power outlets on every device of interest, however it incurs extra hardware ...
Gluhak, Alexander +3 more
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Evaluating dynamic partial reconfiguration in the integer pipeline of a FPGA-based opensource processor [PDF]
, 2008 This work explores the potential of sharing different arithmetic hardware operators tightly coupled to the integer pipeline of the open-source LEON3 processor.
Canagarajah, CN +3 more
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Fuzzy modeling of volumetric efficiency and specific energy consumption in agricultural screw conveyors [PDF]
Ciência Rural, 2020 : Vertical screw conveyors have low energy efficiency but this is generally acceptable within the normally low power range. Previously, a fuzzy logic approach was used to model volumetric efficiency and specific energy consumption in screw conveyors. The
Osman Özbek
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Laser specific energy consumption: How do laser systems compare to other manufacturing processes?
Journal of Laser Applications, 2022 Laser material interactions are routinely praised for their selective processing and high processing rates. However, this does not guarantee that the total manufacturing system has a low energy intensity compared to conventional manufacturing processes.
Lewis C. R. Jones +12 more
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An exergy approach to efficiency evaluation of desalination [PDF]
, 2017 This paper presents an evaluation process efficiency based on the consumption of primary energy for all types of practical desalination methods available hitherto.
Hamed, Osman A. +3 more
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Science and Engineering of Composite Materials, 2014 Efforts have been made to improve the line speed and consequently the economy of the pultrusion in last few years, but most of the reported work focuses on the kinematics of the curing reaction and different resin systems.
Khan Wajid Ali, Methven Jim
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Multivariate KPI for energy management of cooling system in food industry [PDF]
, 2016 Within EU, the food industry is currently ranked among the energy-intensive sectors, mainly as a consequence of the cooling system shareover the total energy demand.
BONACINA, FABRIZIO +4 more
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