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Upgrades to combustion turbines could reduce the heat rate but will often result in an increase in the exhaust gas massflow and temperature. In certain instances, this change ...

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Recently, Liberty Tour in downtown Philadelphia decided to choose the use of steam has their primary source of energy for building heat over natural gas or electric. The presentation ...

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A biomass combined heat-and-power system is being designed to be the core component of a University's campus Central Utility Plant, complementing a suite of other renewable ...

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Due to expected campus growth, the University of Pittsburgh’s existing chilled water system will no longer have enough firm capacity to meet the future campus demand. A combination ...

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Data acquisition in Empower Command Control Center is being analyzed on a systematic way by focusing on the improvement of DHCC plant performance. Historic data is helping ...

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This study assessed the energy flow of district cooling and hopes to quantify them from supply to transformation and consumption of APEC economies. There’s a need to understand ...

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As part of its Combined Heat and Power for Resiliency Accelerator, the US Department of Energy assisted in the creation of multiple tools to improve understanding of how CHP ...

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Absorption chillers have been around for more than a century. They are coming back with several new possibilities to deliver resilient and clean cooling and heating for various ...

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This session presented a case study of ectogrid™, a Thermal Micro Grid energy solution developed by E.ON which address the thermal needs for sustainable cities and moves us ...

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The need to reduce GHG emissions is causing building owners to evaluate district energy options for grid-connected systems. Because the carbon intensity of grid electricity ...