EPRI Journal articles from October 1993

EPRI Journal archives from October 1993

New technologies for electric steelmaking.
October 1, 1993... The steel industry is going through a wrenching transition. Large, integrated producers--who make steel from iron ore with blast furnaces and basic oxygen furnaces--are faced with excess capacity, lower profit margins, stiff environmental...

A rich harvest from halophytes.
October 1, 1993... The widening search for solutions to global environmental and social problems is leading to some surprising discoveries about underutilized natural resources. Take halophytes, for example, a group of only distantly related plants that have in...

Advanced combustion turbines set for takeoff.
October 1, 1993... The growing popularity of natural gas as the fuel of choice for most new electric generating capacity is turning up the spotlight on combustion turbines, a rising star among plant options in an expanding worldwide power generation market. Long...

Adapting wireless networks for monitoring building performance.
October 1, 1993... Four utilities are collaborating with EPRI to adapt a distributed, wireless network of remote data loggers for use in monitoring electrical equipment in commercial buildings. The monitoring tool will allow utilities to identify equipment...

Infrared technology for continuous emissions monitoring.
October 1, 1993... New infrared systems that can simultaneously and automatically monitor many of the chemical species in coal-fired power plant emissions are undergoing side-by-side comparison tests at two Baltimore Gas & Electric Company plants. The Fourier...

Utility DSM activities: 1992 survey. (demand-side management)
October 1, 1993... EPRI's 1992 survey of utility demand-side management (DSM) programs produced the most comprehensive set of information on DSM activities ever assembled. Through the responses of 666 electric utilities throughout North America, the survey...

Ultramax methodology for continuous process improvement.
October 1, 1993... Sequential optimization is a rapid, relatively inexpensive approach for adjusting control settings to continuously improve system performance. To make this technique more accessible to the utility industry, a user-friendly software interface...

Power plant cycles featuring air humidification.
October 1, 1993... According to EPRI studies, new combustion-turbine-based power plant cycles that do not include a steam cycle but that use humidified air could offer utilities significant cost savings and lead to plants with very flexible dispatch capabilities....

GLOCO: modeling the global carbon cycle.
October 1, 1993... Most suggestions for mitigating potential global climate change focus on regulating atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases--in particular, carbon dioxide and methane. Analysis of the efficacy of such strategies requires a predictive,...