EPRI Journal articles from July 1996

EPRI Journal archives from July 1996

Power applications for superconductivity. (includes related article on potential applications for high-temperature superconducting wires)(Cover Story)
July 1, 1996... As a scientific phenomenon, superconductivity has been recognized for 85 years, but its potential for electric power applications that could have a major technological and social impact has broadly captured the interest of electric utilities only...

Fish market lures utilities. (aquaculture)(includes related article on indoor vegetable cultivation)
July 1, 1996... It's winter on the wind-whipped plains of North Dakota, and temperatures well below zero are packing emergency rooms with frostbite victims. But thousands of warm-water fish are thriving in the central part of the state. In fact, hundreds of...

Breakthrough in stability assessment. (includes related articles)
July 1, 1996... At some time, almost everyone has noticed the lights at home or the office flicker. Perhaps they dimmed for a moment when a coffeepot or an air conditioner in the next room was turned on. Maybe they flickered during a violent storm when,...

New controller will reduce the cost of compressed air.
July 1, 1996... U.S. manufacturers rely on compressed air to power a variety of applications at their industrial plants, from moving materials to running hand tools. At many of these plants, compressed air is the single largest user of electric energy,...

Green weapon in war against grain pests.
July 1, 1996... Fighting off insects is a running battle for the grain industry in the United States, the world's largest grain producer and exporter. Here, billions of bushels of grain are typically stored for as long as three years before being processed and...

PSE&G demonstrates SNCR technology for NOx control at Mercer Station. (Public Service Electric and Gas Co.; selective noncatalytic reduction)
July 1, 1996... Utilities now have another option for controlling emissions of nitrogen oxides ([NO.sub.x]) from wet-bottom boilers, thanks to the recent pioneering demonstration of selective noncatalytic reduction (SNCR) technology at unit 2 of Public Service...

Leveraging end-use data provides fast, lower-cost alternative to metering.
July 1, 1996... Reliable information on commercial customer energy use is essential for many utility applications, including demand-side management planning and evaluation, market planning, product development, and rate design. Until recently, however, there was...

Handbooks for reducing transmission line fields.
July 1, 1996... EPRI is delivering tools, concepts, and guidelines to give utilities options for reducing the magnetic fields associated with overhead transmission lines ranging between 115 and 500 kV. As part of this effort, the Institute has published three...