Sentences with phrase «plant efficiencies using»

Redzone provides real time reporting of Swaggerty Sausage's plant efficiencies using an iPad platform, allowing its team to identify productivity improvements, cost savings and equipment utilization.

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His company is partnering with Enbridge Inc. to build a flagship utility - scale solar power plant in Vulcan, using revolutionary, high - efficiency panels.
These forward - looking companies recognize that using natural gas, efficiency, and renewable energy are more profitable than retrofitting coal - fired plants — which are seen as being obsolete, inefficient, and highly polluting.
Faribault is participating in statewide and international energy efficiency studies that will use the company's plant operations as a model for future sustainable manufacturing facilities, King says.
The milk for the plant is transported using lighter tanker trucks for better mileage and energy and cost efficiency.
«We're also committed to ecological efficiency in store landscaping, using drought - resistant native plants and, where possible, rainwater tanks to capture runoff and provide irrigation for landscaped areas,» says Mr Ward.
Honest Laundry Detergent is a plant - based detergent that is safe to use in both regular and high - efficiency washers.
Ethanol and biodiesel can both be used in bio-jet fuel, but the technologies to convert plant - derived oil to jet fuel are at an advanced stage of development, yield high energy efficiency and are ready for large - scale deployment.
Plants are well known to possess extensive genetic variation in drought and temperature tolerance, water - use efficiency, and other traits that can prove critical for surviving climate changes and avoiding extinction.
«CAM is a proven mechanism for increasing water - use efficiency in plants,» ORNL coauthor Xiaohan Yang said.
«If we can identify the mechanisms for water - use efficiency, we could move this trait into agronomic plants, supply non-potable water as irrigation to those plants and save the clean water for drinking.»
«It's hard for the plants not to benefit from that by having a higher water - use efficiency.
Instead, the consortium favours better use of Ukraine's large coal reserves, renovation of existing power plants, and improvements in energy efficiency.
This signaling pathway could be used to optimize the photosynthetic efficiency of plants subject to water and nutrient deficiencies, with potential applications in agriculture and reactor - based crop development for green chemistry and algae - based biofuel solutions.
«The temperature and pressure requirements for the air cooled condensers on power plants are modest,» Pearce says, explaining that allows the team to use polymer heat exchangers to improve efficiency and cut costs.
The team improved the plant's water - use - efficiency — the ratio of carbon dioxide entering the plant to water escaping — by 25 percent without significantly sacrificing photosynthesis or yield in real - world field trials.
By reducing the amount of energy used, efficiency improvements also reduce the amount of energy that must be generated and, therefore, the need for new power plants.
Researchers at JBEI pioneered the use of ionic liquids, salts that are liquid at room temperature, to tackle the deconstruction of plant material because of the efficiency with which the solvent works.
Using high - performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers report in the journal Cell.
The NiTrac sensor developed by Cheng Hsun Ho and Wolf Frommer of the Carnegie Institution for Science will enable non-invasive real - time monitoring of nitrogen acquisition in action in plant roots, providing a new tool set that can be used to improve nitrogen efficiency.
Using infra - red gas analysers connected to a miniature controlled environment chamber, Dr Samuel Taylor and Professor Steve Long, at the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) simulated a sudden increase in sunlight following shade, and measured the time it took for the plant to regain its maximum photosynthesis efficiency and take full advantage of the extra energy from light.
In addition, conversion of light energy into heat (a common way for plants to deal with excess light) was upregulated, while the light use efficiency decreased.
A plant uses just 1 percent of the energy it receives from the sun to make glucose, whereas the artificial system achieved roughly 10 percent efficiency in converting carbon dioxide to fuel, the equivalent of pulling 180 grams of carbon dioxide from the air per kilowatt - hour of electricity generated.
«This could lead to the development of new methods to improve the plant fertilization efficiency and open a new avenue for carbohydrate research in plant biology using synthetic chemistry approaches.»
This study is focused on three specific aspects: to assess the impact of vegetation density on energy efficiency of a roof located at a Mediterranean coastal climate; develop a simplified numeral model that can estimate thermal resistance values equivalent to plants and substrates, and finally, to verify the numerical model by using experimental data.
Scientists have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which a commonly used industrial yeast strain converts plant sugars to biofuel.
All PPI technologies target different native plant mechanisms that provide weatherproofing capabilities such as heat and drought tolerance and water use efficiency.
WSMV reduces root growth, thus limiting the plant's ability to extract soil water and potentially decreasing water - use efficiency.
They used tobacco plants in field trials to confirm that the efficiency of photosynthesis can be increased to produce higher yields of plants, something that many scientists once thought impossible.
Water use efficiency refers to how much water a plant loses for every molecule of CO2 is gains.
By studying the carbon isotope compositions of barley plants and their relationship with water - use efficiency, the researchers developed tools that plant breeders can use to improve selection efficiency for more water - efficient varieties.
I see this project as one piece of the puzzle in understanding how to increase the water - use efficiency of maize plants.
One of the purposes of Price's expedition to the South Seas was to find, if possible «plants or fruits which together, without the use of animal products, were capable of providing all of the requirements of the body for growth and for maintenance of good health and a high state of physical efficiency
When measuring the quality of proteins, meaning, the efficiency with which the proteins of these different foods are used within the body, it is found that the weight gained from animal protein is greatly larger than any possible weight gained from plant protein.
The surface algorithm shows the efficiency of the water - energy dynamic to be used in ordination of plant strategies as the input variable mean ground frost frequency is not used to ordinate the strategy here.
When it comes to America and goes on sale at an as yet undetermined price, the 2015 e-Golf will represent a factory once written off as uncompetitive and a company in the midst of transformation, determined to reduce energy use and material waste in its plants, to use lightweight, hot - formed steel wherever possible, and to scrape away every gram of excess metal from engine components for better efficiency.
Mobility may be enhanced in future tanks by the use of diesel - electric or turbine - electric series hybrid drives — first used in a primitive, gasoline - engined form with Porsche's Elefant German tank destroyer of 1943 — improving fuel efficiency while reducing the size and weight of the power plant.
Built at BMW Plant Dingolfing in Germany alongside the BMW 7 Series with which it shares its basic architecture, the new BMW 5 Series Sedan is a stylish sporting luxury sedan that uses cutting edge, innovative technology to deliver class leading performance and efficiency and BMW's hallmark ultimate driving pleasure.
This unique supply system makes efficient use of Honda's global auto plants and increases the speed, efficiency, and flexibility of the company's manufacturing operations.
However, this in itself is not enough to define what level of warming is «dangerous,» especially since the projections of actual impacts for any level of warming are highly uncertain, and depend on further factors such as how quickly these levels are reached (so how long ecosystems and society have had to respond), and what other changes are associated with them (eg: carbon dioxide concentration, since this affects plant photosynthesis and water use efficiency, and ocean acidification).
The genetic work he describes includes all uses of genetic research to improve plant productivity or farming efficiency.
New plant would have an efficiency increase of around 10 % so that would offset a lot of the cost of capture - if you use our existing fleet as the baseline
Indeed, Jacobson estimates that the opportunity costs of nuclear — the CO2 emissions that result from not using the resources consumed by expanding nuclear to expand renewables and improve efficiency instead — exceed the total CO2 emissions from the entire nuclear power plant lifecycle.
As «The Skeptics» often point out, a higher CO2 concentration helps plants grow better, in part by adding higher water use efficiency.
(Thomas Edison's first power plant built in 1882 had an efficiency rating of 2.5 %; meaning that 2.5 % of the energy potential in the fuel used was actually transformed into electricity.
[7] Power plant efficiency can also be greatly improved by using «combined heat and power» systems that use waste heat from the combustion process for space heating or industrial applications, [8] or by using a «combined cycle» that uses the waste heat to power a steam turbine and make more electricity.
Coal use for power generation fell even more, by at least 4 %, as power plant efficiency improved and gas and biomass displaced coal in thermal power generation.
I believe there are many paths that we can / should follow to responsibly address AGW (I listed 7 areas, such as fast mitigation, natural gas use (LNG), high efficiency coal plants, Renewables, etc).
As such, I believe there are many paths that we can / should follow to responsibly address AGW (I listed 7 areas, such as fast mitigation, natural gas use (LNG), high efficiency coal plants, Renewables, etc).
The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan already calls for existing power plants to trim emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, and the administration is looking to use the EPA to force further improvements in fuel efficiency in the transportation sector, among other measures.
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