Cost-Benefit Analysis of Residential Energy-Efficiency Upgrades in Phoenix, Arizona

With worldwide energy consumption rising, there is a need to reduce energy use of the housing stock. While this general idea is well-known, there is an overwhelming amount of product data and manufacturers claims through which the homebuilder or designer must sort to make informed selections of energy-efficient upgrades. The main objective of this research was to identify cost effective–energy efficient upgrades from a group of 16 commonly available choices, and rank them according to the most beneficial for the least cost. This study was conducted in Phoenix, Arizona, and included a sample of 30 production-style homes typical of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Energy-simulation software was used to perform energy evaluations and derive the benefits of each upgrade. The cost of each upgrade was obtained from a database of national average costs and from a local context. Differences in the selection of beneficial upgrades vary dramatically with the source of the cost information. This research provides a generic methodology that can be used by builders and designers to select appropriate energy-efficient upgrades for a given geographic area that will provide high operating benefits relative to the amount of capital investment.     

红外加热节能技术的现状与发展前景

本文综述了国内外节能的现状与发展趋势,论述了远红外电加热领域的发展前景,强调了加强基础理论研究的重要性,介绍了我国红外加热应用的领域和国外新开发的红外产品。     

浅析当前环境下国有资产的现状和管理对策

改革开放使中国经济实现了持续高速的发展。然而,随着改革的不断深入,国有资产面临着在新经济环境下的角色转换,在此过程中由于各种原因每年有数百亿元的国有资产流失,所以,国有资产的保值增值成为现阶段乃至将来一段时间我国政府的重大经济课题。本文对国有资产的历史和现状进行了分析并从多角度提出了一些管理方面的看法。     

Integration of a Malt Drying Model into a Malt Plant Scheduling Software

Malting is a very intensive, energy-consuming process and, from the point of view of energy, green malt drying is one of the most important operations. Double-deck kiln drying, a variant of single-deck kiln drying, is the most commonly used process, but it is usually manually controlled under empirical control actions. These are the reasons why a research project was carried out based on the computer modeling of these process operations including a software tool named CIMFOOD. A knowledge-based system (KBS) allowing the entire processing-plant dynamic behavior simulation and scheduling concerning thermal energy requirements was developed.     

Demand elasticities in OECD: Dynamical aspects

Four models with different lag structures are used to express final energy demand in OECD from 1960–1982 as a function of real GDP and average energy price. The income and long-run price elasticities are not significantly dependent on the model specification, but the Koyck lag scheme, estimated in its distributed lag form, is found to give the most satisfactory results. The statistical properties of the data together with evidence of trends in the elasticities both suggest that the period of falling real prices prior to 1971 is not comparable to the present period. For the period after 1971, an income elsticity of 1.02 and a long-run price elasticity of -0.37 are obtained.     

Decentralized energy supply: Suitability for the UK's industrial sectors

From the results reported here it is suggested that policy decisions about the potential contribution of decentralized energy supply systems to UK industrial energy requirements should be based on the suitability of individual sectors rather than averaged over all sectors. The suitability of decentralized energy sources is evaluated, based on a themodynamic match between source and demand. This suitability criterion is used to identify the most appropriate sector in manufacturing industries for the adoption of decentralized energy supply, leaving aside economic cost considerations and individual site requirements.     

石家庄市室内氡及其子体浓度

本文报道了用双滤膜法对石家庄市室内空气中氡及其子体浓度的调查结果。47个房间室内氡年平均浓度为17.0Bq·m~(-3),氡子体平均浓度是7.14Bq·m~(-3)。氡及其子体浓度的日变化是清晨4—8时出现峰值。季节变化是夏秋季低,冬季高,全年的最低值出现在8月,最高值出现在11月。     

热带城市垃圾典型组分的热解特性研究

对热带城市垃圾的几种典型组分进行了热解实验，得到了它们的失重曲线，通过对失重曲线进行分析，得到了这几种典型组分的热解规律，并通过建立热解动力学模型，求出了其中两种组分的活化能E和频率因子A。     

葡北地区快速钻井技术

介绍了葡北地区地质构造及分层特征 ,分析了钻井难点 ,并给出了详细对策 ,从钻具组合、钻头优选、钻进参数优选、钻井液体系及安全技术措施等方面详细介绍了该区快速钻井技术。在葡北 4 - 11井和葡北 6- 1井的应用表明 ,该快速钻井技术能显著提高钻速 ,钻井周期明显缩短     

准噶尔盆地车排子地区侏罗系层序地层格架

在前人对准噶尔盆地全盆地或局部层序地层大量研究成果的基础上，重点对盆地西北缘侏罗系地层格架特征开展了深入、细致的解剖和刻划，建立了层序地层格架，首次对车排子地区侏罗系层序及体系域界面特征进行了描述，并结合钻探井资料，划分了有利的沉积相带，对盆地侏罗系隐蔽型圈闭和油气藏的勘探提供了一种思想和方法。