Author: Mark E. DomsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Energy Intensity, Electricity Consumption, and Advanced Manufacturing Technology Usage
Author: Mark E. DomsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Center for Economic Studies Discussion Paper
Author: Proceedings
Author: Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing
Author: Paul Francis JacobsPublisher: Society of Manufacturing Engineers
ISBN: 0872634256
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This turnkey technology source provides an introduction to rapid prototyping and manufacturing (RP&M) with emphasis on Stereolithography which represents the majority of all rapid prototyping systems currently in place. The content is based on theory, analysis and experiment with extensive test data, including select case studies from the automotive, simultaneous engineering, and medical sectors.
State-Level Changes in Energy Intensity and Their National Implications
Author: Mark A. BernsteinPublisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 0833036009
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
The 2001 National Energy Policy calls for continued reductions in energy intensity (energy consumption per dollar of gross economic output). This study was part of an effort to identify state-level factors that may contribute to efficient energy use nationwide. The authors examined changes in energy intensity in 48 states and in the states' energy-consuming sectors from 1977 through 1999. Some factors that may explain differences in states' energy intensity are energy prices, new construction, capacity utilization, population, climate, tech innovations, and government energy policies.
Energy Efficient Manufacturing
Author: John W. SutherlandPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118423844
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Over the last several years, manufacturers have expressed increasing interest in reducing their energy consumption and have begun to search for opportunities to reduce their energy usage. In this book, the authors explore a variety of opportunities to reduce the energy footprint of manufacturing. These opportunities cover the entire spatial scale of the manufacturing enterprise: from unit process-oriented approaches to enterprise-level strategies. Each chapter examines some aspect of this spatial scale, and discusses and describes the opportunities that exist at that level. Case studies demonstrate how the opportunity may be acted on with practical guidance on how to respond to these opportunities.
Innovation in Energy Systems
Author: Taha Selim UstunPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 1789841070
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
It has been a little over a century since the inception of interconnected networks and little has changed in the way that they are operated. Demand-supply balance methods, protection schemes, business models for electric power companies, and future development considerations have remained the same until very recently. Distributed generators, storage devices, and electric vehicles have become widespread and disrupted century-old bulk generation - bulk transmission operation. Distribution networks are no longer passive networks and now contribute to power generation. Old billing and energy trading schemes cannot accommodate this change and need revision. Furthermore, bidirectional power flow is an unprecedented phenomenon in distribution networks and traditional protection schemes require a thorough fix for proper operation. This book aims to cover new technologies, methods, and approaches developed to meet the needs of this changing field.
The Financial Performance of Whole Company LBOs
Author: William F. LongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Electric Capitalism
Author: David A. McDonaldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136567631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Although Africa is the most under-supplied region of the world for electricity, its economies are utterly dependent on it. There are enormous inequalities in electricity access, with industry receiving abundant supplies of cheap power while more than 80 per cent of the continent's population remain off the power grid. Africa is not unique in this respect, but levels of inequality are particularly pronounced here due to the inherent unevenness of 'electric capitalism' on the continent. This book provides an innovative theoretical framework for understanding electricity and capitalism in Africa, followed by a series of case studies that examine different aspects of electricity supply and consumption. The chapters focus primarily on South Africa due to its dominance in the electricity market, but there are important lessons to be learned for the continent as a whole, not least because of the aggressive expansion of South African capital into other parts of Africa to develop and control electricity. Africa is experiencing a renewed scramble for its electricity resources, conjuring up images of a recolonisation of the continent along the power grid. Written by leading academics and activists, Electric Capitalism offers a cutting-edge, yet accessible, overview of one of the most important developments in Africa today - with direct implications for health, gender equity, environmental sustainability and socio-economic justice. From nuclear power through prepaid electricity meters to the massive dam projects taking place in central Africa, an understanding of electricity reforms on the continent helps shape our insights into development debates in Africa in particular and the expansion of neoliberal capitalism more generally.
The Importance of Establishment Data in Economic Research
Author: Robert H. McGuckinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The importance and usefulness of establishment microdata for economic research and policy analysis is outlined and contrasted with traditional products of statistical agencies -- aggregate cross-section tabulations. It is argued that statistical agencies must begin to seriously rethink the way they view establishment data products.