Showing papers in "Energy in 1985"

TL;DR: Synthese des etudes publiees sur l'influence des taux d'escompte dans la prise de decision en matiere d'investissements dans the conservation de l'energie dans le secteur domestique.

TL;DR: In this article, a new approach to the combination of exergetic and economic analysis (exergoeconomic analysis) for the investigation of energy-conversion processes is presented, which allows the monetary evaluation of costs caused by irreversibilities (exergy losses), as well as comparisons between these costs and the investment and operating costs for each component of a plant.

TL;DR: In this article, multichannel reflection-seismic, magnetic, and gravity data were recorded along 51 profiles in the southeastern part of the South China Sea, predominantly in the Dangerous Grounds and in the Palawan Trough, during SONNE cruises SO-23 in 1982 and SO-27 in 1983.

TL;DR: In this article, an interpretative model for the plate tectonic evolution of the Western Pacific-Indian Ocean region is illustrated by a series of map reconstructions for selected time slices from Late Permian to Late Miocene.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of energy decision-making in 60 households in Santa Cruz County. California, reveals a seeming anomaly in consumers' energy decision strategies, which may have serious consequences for the marketing of energy-conservation products and programs.

TL;DR: In this article, the determinants of summer electricity use in single-family dwellings were examined and a causal model approach was used to show how the social variables are related to energy use through intervening engineering/hardware variables.

TL;DR: A coal-fired steam power plant, which will be located in Southern Nevada, has been analyzed with the aid of the method presented in Part I. as mentioned in this paper suggests that decreasing the exergy losses for the components steam boiler/reheater, feedwater preheaters, and low-pressure turbine may lead to a reduction in electricity cost although the capital costs will increase.

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of insulated and vapor-tight pots has been introduced and applied to oven, point-focus and heat-pipe cookers, and a new flat-plate cooker with heat pipes has been developed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate those economically-traded forms of energy which are consumed in the home in New Zealand, either directly as fuel or indirectly embodied in the goods and services that add up to material lifestyle, and conclude that even without improvements in the technology of energy use, the overall demand for consumer energy for direct or indirect household consumption in N.Z. is likely to increase at a much slower rate than increases in real income and significantly more slowly than in the past.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the behavioral response of 79 households to residential technical efficiency improvements (e.g., attic insulation, storm windows) and found that roughly 10% of the energy saving due to retrofit was taken back in terms of increased comfort.

TL;DR: A large and widespread unconformity exists in the upper Paleogene section of Taiwan as mentioned in this paper, which is formed mainly by growth faults and subsidence, and is also slightly folded.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed the theory for a four-pass air heater and investigated the effect of the number of glass cover plates on one, two, and three passes.

TL;DR: In this article, a 4.2 m solar furnace was used to produce H 2 and sulfur from H 2 S. The independent variables were temperature, feed rate, and pressure.

TL;DR: In this article, the energy balances for basin-type solar distillation with air flowing through the still have been derived and the effects of G and ( t w − t o ) on the modified factor F have been investigated experimentally and a correlation equation derived.

TL;DR: In this article, the technical-economic aspects of natural gas and methanol as fuels for transportation and presents a summary of worldwide experience with emphasis on the existing experience in a developing country such as Brazil, including its commercial large-scale experience with ethanol fuels.

TL;DR: In this paper, a general linear programming model is developed to capture energy and agricultural interactions existing in the rural areas of developing countries, which is suitable for policy purposes because it considers several income groups separately and considers how different changes affect each of them.

TL;DR: In this paper, a one-unit photovoltaic electrolyzer, fabricated from double-stacked amorphous silicon cells (pin-pin), is described, achieving a solar energy conversion efficiency to hydrogen of 2.6%.

TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical and empirical equations for designing basin-type solar distillers with operating pressure reduced have been derived from energy and material balances coupled with experimental data, and a significant improvement in productivity was obtained by reducing the operating pressure in the solar distillation system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop and demonstrate models that combine engineering and statistical approaches to estimate customer-specific end-use load curves, called statistically adjusted engineering (SAE) loads, which depend on a variety of conditioning variables, including weather and the size and type of the customer's dwelling.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors infer that the long-term average convergence rate across the Manila Trench has been about 1 cm/yr and may be slowing in the north due to the collision of Taiwan with Eurasia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated existing energy conservation standards for office buildings in Singapore and recommended changes in the present lighting and OTTV (overall thermal transfer value) standards and showed that significant energy savings can be effected by the use of daylighting and several other measures that reduce cooling loads.

TL;DR: In this paper, three major tectonic elements are recognized during Early Oligocene in the Natuna area, i.e. the West Natuna Basin, the East Natuna basin and the N Natuna Arch.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present design options and operation criteria for sensible heat, molten-salt storage with internal insulation, and show that in order to reduce corrosion and temperature sufficiently to retain strength in the storage containing wall, internal and thermal insulation is required.

TL;DR: In this article, the capital cost, operating costs, revenues, and payback period of a 100 gm-mole/s solar-thermochemical plant which converts H 2 S to H 2 and S x by quenching the effluent from a solar furnace are presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the South China Sea Basin is about 500 km narrower in the southwest sub-basin than in the eastern subbasin, and that the total continental plus transitional margin crust in the western sub basin represents a differential stretching factor about twice that inferred for rifted margins of the eastern basin.

TL;DR: In this paper, the cumulative cost flows, including expenditures for purchase, recovery, maintenance, fuel and operating costs, are calculated over the useful life of the domestic hot water installations for expected annual fuel-increment rates.

TL;DR: In this article, a world oil market model with OPEC treated as a Stackelberg cartel was developed within the framework of the Generalized Equilibrium Modeling System (GEMS) that is available from Decision Focus, Inc.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate a utility-sponsored conservation program in which commercial and industrial customers received cash rebates for installing energy-saving devices and find that the very largest customers had a lower probability of participating than smaller customers, possibly because the rebates were insufficiently large to affect their decision making.

TL;DR: A 0.152 m internal diameter fluidized-bed pilot-plant facility designed to operate up to a maximum temperature of 1500 K at ambient pressures has been fabricated, installed and tested as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of a solar water heater with collector and baffle plate for six continuous days during the summer and winter seasons was investigated, and the following cases were studied: 1) no flow, 2.