Energy Efficiency Road Mapping in Three Future Scenarios for Lao PDR

Examples of emerging sustainable living practices can be found in all parts of the world. However, negative impacts from production and consumption remain and broad shifts toward sustainable lifestyles are not yet occurring. How can future scenarios and road mapping be used to develop actions to support the transition toward sustainable living?

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Revamping, Energy Efficiency and Exergy Analysis of an Existing Upstream Gas Treatment Facility

ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Volume 1 ◽

10.1115/es2010-90213 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Michele Margarone ◽

Stefano Magi ◽

Giuseppe Gorla ◽

Stefano Biffi ◽

Paolo Siboni ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Figure Of Merit ◽

Exergy Analysis ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Future Scenarios ◽

Treatment Facility ◽

Gas Treatment ◽

Return Times ◽

Treatment Facilities

Surface oil and gas treatment facilities in service for decades are likely to be oversized due to the natural depletion of their reservoirs. Despite these plants might have been designed modularly, meaning they comprise multiple identical units serving the same task, such units operate often in conditions far from the design point and inefficiently. This work analyzes the revamping options of an existing upstream gas facility, which is chosen because representative of a wide set of plants. A flexible numerical model, implemented in the HYSYS environment and dynamically linked to an Excel spreadsheet, includes the performance maps of all turbo machineries and the main characteristics of the investigated modifications in order to run simulation for many gas input conditions and to predict the performance over a year of operation and for different possible future scenarios. The first objective is to assess economically the considered options, which shall be applied only if yielding short return times of the investment since the reservoir is mature. Moreover, all options are appreciated adopting a figure of merit, here defined, that compares the overall energy consumption to that calculated with state-of-the-art technologies. In addition, an exergy and an environmental analyses are executed.

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Appliance Diffusion Model for Energy Efficiency Standards and Labeling Evaluation in the Capital of Lao Pdr

Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy Water and Environment Systems ◽

10.13044/j.sdewes.2015.03.0021 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 269-281 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hajime Sasaki ◽

Ichiro Sakata ◽

Weerin Wangjiraniran ◽

Sengprasong Phrakonkham

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Diffusion Model ◽

Lao Pdr ◽

Energy Efficiency Standards

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Methodology for Measurement the Energy Efficiency Involving Solar Heating Systems Using Stochastic Modelling

Transactions on Environment and Electrical Engineering ◽

10.22149/teee.v2i1.84 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Bruno G. Menita ◽

Girodani Pacífico Medeiros ◽

Jose L. Domingos ◽

Elder G. Domingues ◽

Aylton J. Alves ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Low Income ◽

Stochastic Modelling ◽

Future Scenarios ◽

Heating Systems ◽

Monte Carlo Simulation Technique ◽

Measurement And Verification ◽

Low Income Families ◽

Electricity Saving ◽

Verification Methodology

The purpose of the present study is to evaluate gains through measurement and verification methodology adapted from the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol, from case studies involving Energy Efficiency Projects in the Goias State, Brazil. This paper also presents the stochastic modelling for the generation of future scenarios of electricity saving resulted by these Energy Efficiency Projects. The model is developed by using the Geometric Brownian Motion Stochastic Process with Mean Reversion associated with the Monte Carlo simulation technique. Results show that the electricity saved from the replacement of electric showers by solar water heating systems in homes of low-income families has great potential to bring financial benefits to such families, and that the reduction in peak demand obtained from this Energy Efficiency Action is advantageous to the Brazilian electrical system. Results contemplate also the future scenarios of electricity saving and a sensitivity analysis in order to verify how values of some parameters influence on the results, once there is no historical data available for obtaining these values.

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Drying and heating of scrap metal at steelmaking: industrial safety, economics, ecology

Ferrous Metallurgy Bulletin of Scientific Technical and Economic Information ◽

10.32339/0135-5910-2020-12-1253-1258 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 76 (12) ◽

pp. 1353-1258

Author(s):

V. A. Spirin ◽

V. E. Nikol’skii ◽

D. V. Vokhmintsev ◽

A. A. Moiseev ◽

P. G. Smirnov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

High Efficiency ◽

Steel Production ◽

Scrap Metal ◽

Industrial Safety ◽

Technical Solution ◽

Metal Charge ◽

Basic Task ◽

Scrap Heating ◽

Winter Time

At steel production based on scrap metal utilization, the scrap heating before charging into a melting facility is an important way of energy efficiency increase and ecological parameters improving. In winter time scrap metal charging with ice inclusions into a metal melt can result in a considerable damage of equipment and even accidents. Therefore, scrap preliminary drying is necessary to provide industrial safety. It was shown, that in countries with warm and low-snow climate with no risk of scrap metal icing up during its transportation and storing in the open air, the basic task being solved at the scrap drying is an increase of energy efficiency of steelmaking. InRussiathe scrap metal drying first of all provides the safety of the process and next - energy saving. Existing technologies of scrap metal drying and heating considered, as well as advantages and drawbacks of technical solutions used at Russian steel plants. In winter time during scrap metal heating at conveyers (Consteel process) hot gases penetrate not effectively into its mass, the heat is not enough for evaporation of wetness in the metal charge. At scrap heating by the furnace gases, a problem of dioxines emissions elimination arises. Application of shaft heaters results in high efficiency of scrap heating. However, under conditions of Russian winter the upper scrap layers are not always heated higher 0 °С and after getting into a furnace bath the upper scrap layers cause periodical vapor explosions. The shaft heaters create optimal conditions for dioxines formation, which emit into atmosphere. It was shown, that accounting Russian economic and nature conditions, the metal charge drying and heating in modified charging buckets by the heat of burnt natural gas or other additional fuel is optimal. The proposed technical solution enables to burnt off organic impurities ecologically safely, to melt down ice, to evaporate the wetness in the scrap as well as to heat the charge as enough as the charging logistics enables it. The method was implemented at several Russian steel plants. Technical and economical indices of scrap metal drying in buckets under conditions of EAF-based shop, containing two furnaces ДСП-100, presented.

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Perspectives and Regulation of the Russian Market for Project-based Transactions under the Kyoto Protocol

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2008-10-108-125 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 108-125

Author(s):

K. Zavodov

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Market Mechanism ◽

Point Of View ◽

Market Regulation ◽

Foreign Investments ◽

Russian Market ◽

Increase Energy Efficiency ◽

New Form ◽

Contract Structure ◽

Carbon Fund

Project-based transactions (PBTs) are a market mechanism of attracting foreign investments in order to abate greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy efficiency of the country’s enterprises. The article provides a classification and analyzes advantages and drawbacks of PBTs from the point of view of a host country. The main trends and factors determining the dynamics of the PBT market are described. Given that Russia currently lags behind the leaders of the PBT market, an incorporation of a state carbon fund is put forward with an aim of channelling PBTs through it. This paper proposes a form of PBT market regulation by incorporating an option mechanism into the contract structure of a transaction. A comparison of the new form of regulation with the tools that are currently in use in Russia and other countries demonstrates its greater economic efficiency under uncertainty.

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