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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of energy efficiency in 32 power electric generation … relative technical efficiency and productivity change of these companies. In order to verify the stability of our DEA model and … technical efficiency of companies decreased during the study period. Nearly half of the companies (14) are below this average …
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Grape is one of the world's largest fruit crops with approximately 67.5 million tonnes produced each year and energy is an important element in modern grape productions as it heavily depends on fossil and other energy resources. Efficient use of these energies is a necessary step toward reducing...
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energy efficiency by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in corn production of Iran during a seven years period. Results … results showed that average energy use efficiency, energy productivity, specific energy and net energy gain in the studied … that average energy efficiency score was 90.26%. There is impermanent trend in growth of energy efficiency in corn …
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, potential relationships between efficiency and annual power generation, location or average wind speed were discussed. …
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specific energy consumption over time, and suggests that developing and promulgating an energy-benchmarking framework including … a process step approach and efficiency measures should be recommended for evaluating energy performance and improving … energy efficiency in cheese-making industry. …
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efficiency and performance in many areas for different objectives. Industrial energy benchmarking is a process of evaluating …Benchmarking has been recognized to be an effective analysis methodology and management tool that helps to improve … energy performance of an individual industrial plant or sector against a reference plant or sector. Energy benchmarking based …
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use was compared to both domestic (Chinese) and international best practice using the Benchmarking and Energy Saving Tool … for Cement (BEST-Cement). This benchmarking exercise indicated an average technical potential primary energy savings of 12 …-effective electricity efficiency potential for the 16 studied cement plants in 2008 is estimated to be 373gigawatt-hours (GWh), and total …
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Improved energy efficiency is among the key measures for CO2 emission abatement in the industry. Energy benchmark … curves provide data measured at individual plants and they offer a basis to estimate the sectoral energy efficiency … collected for more sectors. By doing so, energy benchmarking could become a key tool to estimate energy saving potentials and …
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plant efficiency from 49.4% to 50.4% compared to MEA. However, although an increased desorber pressure reduces SRD by 8 …%, the net efficiency is virtually constant. This illustrates the difference between reduced SRD and improved net plant … efficiency and the importance of systems level analysis. The best net efficiency, with EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) and 5 °C …
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Efficient use of energy in agriculture is one of the conditions for sustainable production. In the present study energy use pattern for tomato production in Iran was investigated and a non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique was applied to analyze the technical and scale...
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