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To the point about arc flash protection & safe electrical work practices
Because energized electrical parts expose workers to the risk of electric shock or exposure to an arc flash, employees must know and understand how to protect themselves from these two electrical hazards. This program provides an overview of the electrical safety program as it relates to arc flash protection and safe electrical work practices. Topics include: Approach & Arc Flash ...
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Moist Static Energy Budget Analysis of Tropical Cyclone Intensification in High-Resolution Climate Models
Tropical cyclone intensification processes are explored in six high-resolution climate models. The analysis framework employs process-oriented diagnostics that focus on how convection, moisture, clouds and related processes are coupled. These diagnostics include budgets of column moist static energy and the spatial variance of column moist static energy, where the column integral is performed ...
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New Atmospheric Plasma Applications Catalogue
Hiden Analytical develops and supplies instruments for a new era of analysis of ions, radicals and neutrals from high pressure plasmas. The latest in the range of application showcase brochures, Atmospheric Plasma Applications, offers an insight into the applications that Hiden’s atmospheric plasma range address. The Hiden instruments for atmospheric plasma analysis include the HPR-60 ...
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Cybersecurity in the Energy & Utility Sector
IBM recently released an IBM X-Force report highlighting analysis of energy and utility (E&U) customer data. The E&U sector is responsible for critical infrastructure that keeps society running, including fuel, electricity, drinking water, and more. The key findings reveal that: Although the sector was not one of the top targeted industries among the client security environments ...
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AERaudit creates transparency about savings potential of wastewater treatment plants
AERZEN, a market leader in wastewater technology, is showing clients the way forward to the new process paradigm in the water industry known as ‘Water 4.0’. As part of the 360-degree approach taken by AERwater spanning digitalisation, automation and resource efficiency solutions, AERaudit is a service exclusively developed by AERZEN for analysing the energy efficiency of wastewater ...
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Global Survey Names C2ES the World’s Top Environmental Think Tank
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) was named the world’s top environmental think tank in a global survey of top public policy research institutes. The University of Pennsylvania’s 2011 Global Go-To Think Tank Rankings are based on a survey of more than 1,500 policymakers, scholars, journalists, think-tank executives and others worldwide. The survey assessed more than ...
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MEDIA ADVISORY: EPA Participates in North Birmingham Summer Youth Camps to provide Environmental Education
Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) personnel will participate in 4 summer youth camps throughout the North Birmingham area in attempt to reach campers in grades K-7 affected by the environmental issues in North Birmingham. WHO: EPA WHAT: Environmental Education Sessions WHEN: July 21-22, 2015 from 8:00am – 3:00pm WHERE: Inglenook, North Birmingham, Fountain Heights, ...
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NREL Announces New Center Directors to lead R&D, Analysis Efforts
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently named leaders in the renewable energy field as center directors. Paul Basore has been named Director of the Materials Applications and Performance Center; Dave Mooney as Director of the Strategic Energy Analysis Center; Nancy Haegel as Director of NREL's Materials Science Center; Jao van de Lagemaat as Director of Chemistry and ...
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IES Launches North American Training Tour Focused on Simulation Techniques for Sustainable Design
Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES), a provider of integrated performance analysis software and consulting services for sustainable building design, today announced a series of training programs throughout the U.S. and Canada. These two-day events bring experts from IES to teach engineers and sustainability consultants simulation techniques and ...
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DOE Announces Plan to Modernize Department
Recently, (12/15), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intent to modernize the agency's organizational structure to advance its policy goals consistent with its statutory requirements. Under the DOE Organization Act, the Secretary of Energy has the authority to organize the Department in order to meet the needs of the current time and support and advance the policy priorities of ...
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Aeraudit Creates Transparency About Savings Potential Of Wastewater Treatment Plants
AERZEN, a market leader in wastewater technology, is showing clients the way forward to the new process paradigm in the water industry known as ‘Water 4.0’. As part of the 360-degree approach taken by AERwater spanning digitalisation, automation and resource efficiency solutions, AERaudit is a service exclusively developed by AERZEN for analysing the energy efficiency of wastewater ...
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EPA announces DC-area has second highest number of ENERGY STAR certified buildings in U.S.
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the most ENERGY STAR certified buildings. For the third year in a row, the District of Columbia metropolitan area has the second highest number of commercial energy-efficient buildings earning EPA’s ENERGY STAR. “Commercial building owners in D.C. are making great strides in ...
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Smart cities executive evening
AGRION presents the Smart Cities Executive Evening, sponsored by JETRO and Schneider Electric. Join us for an evening of dinner and networking, while we discuss opportunities for creating smarter urban infrastructure in a world challenged by resource constraints. Panelists will explore financing distributed generation in urban areas, integrating energy efficiency and renewable energy into ...
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Inprova Energy`s Helen Woodman wins National Grid Appreciation Award
National Grid has recognised Inprova Energy's Helen Woodman as one of its top contractors for helping to achieve utilities savings across the organisation. Helen has won the National Grid Corporate Property 'Certificate of Recognition' appreciation award for the third time. She is an Account Analyst for the Inprova Energy bureau services team, which rationalises, verifies and validates ...
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Proactive leak detection of oil & gas assets can improve worker safety
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, there have only been 4 new refineries built in the last 20 years on US soil. Those 4 refineries have a combined capacity of These complex, engineering amusement parks must be properly maintained if they want to continue to not only be operable but also profitable. One aspect of proper maintenance and environmental stewardship is proactive ...
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Study on Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Systems Indicates New Priorities
A new study published in the journal Science says that the total impact of switching to natural gas depends heavily on leakage of methane (CH4) during the natural gas life cycle, and suggests that more can be done to reduce methane emissions and to improve measurement tools which help inform policy choices. Published in the February 14 issue of Science, the study, “Methane Leaks from North ...
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Companies Can Reduce Carbon Footprint by Giving Consumers Green Choices
Companies can reduce the carbon footprint of their supply chains and improve customer satisfaction by giving consumers information and tools to make green choices, according to research conducted by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings are drawn from a series of experiments designed ...
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Alfa Chemistry Announces to Participate in the Upcoming Pittcon Conference & Exposition 2023
The New York-based chemical vendor Alfa Chemistry recently announced its attendance at the upcoming Pittcon Conference & Exposition 2023. This five-day event will take place at Pennsylvania Convention Center from 18th – 22nd March 2023. “This conference will greatly facilitate communication among a hub of researchers and experts dedicated to laboratory science, providing an ...
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ASTM E1369 - 11 standard guide for selecting techniques for treating uncertainty and risk in the economic evaluation of buildings and building systems
Investments in long-lived projects such as buildings are characterized by uncertainties regarding project life, operation and maintenance costs, revenues, and other factors that affect project economics. Since future values of these variable factors are generally not known, it is difficult to make reliable economic evaluations. The traditional approach to project ...
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Australia invites small business action on climate change
The Rudd Government has invited 500 small businesses to participate in a new climate change initiative designed to provide greater information on private sector energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, Minister for the Environment, Peter Garrett, said today “Tackling climate change requires gaining a better understanding of all the contributing factors, including energy use in each sector of our ...
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