energy efficiency and optimization in an industrial sector. The energy efficiency assessment and the optimization of the … its optimization reductions. The proposed method is validated by its application to determine the efficiency computation …

to a year. In the last part of the study, the energy efficiency index of Hawaii is compared with consumption averages for … California and Denmark in terms of energy efficiency. The comparison also shows that an increase in energy efficiency corresponds …

In this paper the influence of greenhouse construction on energy efficiency in winter lettuce production was estimated …

to be a comparative measure of energy efficiency. The impacts of air pollution from household cooking suggested a …

The energy and exergy utilizations in the U.S. manufacturing sector are analyzed by considering the energy and exergy … the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS). Since the MECS data exhibit many gaps, data from other sources are … efficiencies of the manufacturing sector are estimated as 63.5% and 38.8% respectively, while the embodied energy and exergy …

Energy-related carbon emissions from UK manufacturing have fallen, between 1990 and 2007, by approximately 2% per annum … was found to be a reduction in energy intensity. The manufacturing sector was also split into two subsectors: the energy …

This article evaluates energy efficiency in Brazilian crude oil refining in comparison with the crude oil refining in … of products of high value added. Moreover, the article shows that improvements in energy efficiency result in higher … modernized in 2008 at a cost of US $1.3 billion. As a result, its capacity increased by 17%, from 157 to 189 kbpd. Its complexity …

life-cycle cost analysis. For the analysis of the economical aspects, the social and CO2 costs have also been taken into …

structures and the inventory of idle iron, and to provide first-order estimates of the cost of each regulatory option. A …

In this work, energy losses and the economic consequences of the use of small appliances containing power electronics …