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Xcel Energy and Northwest Airlines Partner to Save Energy
Erin Mathe
How do you test a 747 engine to ensure reliability once it’s airborne at 600 miles an hour?
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UTC's Environmental Performance
Sourced from the Web
UTC has continuously reported Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) performance since 1992. In 1997, we committed to 10-year goals to reduce energy and water use, which resulted in a 19 percent reduction in energy use and a 49 percent reduction in water use by the end of 2006.
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Nitrogen System Innovation at Boeing
By Ron Marshall, CET, CIM, Manitoba Hydro
Boeing Canada has replaced their onsite membrane style Nitrogen generator with a new more modern system with increased capacity and higher efficiency.  As a result, the company is now using minimal amounts of expensive liquid Nitrogen, and has reduced the energy cost per unit of gas produced by 83%.
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Audit of Transit-Bus Manufacturing
By Ron Marshall, CET, CIM, Manitoba Hydro
New Flyer Industries is a Winnipeg based heavy duty bus manufacturer, supplying vehicles to the US and Canadian markets.  The company specializes in vehicles with†alternative-fuel drives such as electric trolleys, gasoline-electric and diesel-electric hybrid vehicles; as well as standard diesel buses.
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Class Zero Air Measures Race Car Performance
By Compressed Air Best Practices
A four thousand, five hundred and fifty pound (4550 lbs.) race car is running at 170 mph and facing wind resistance of 150 mph. The car then enters a curve creating a three-degree “yaw” (the change in angle from the direction the car is headed and the airstream).  The car struggles to maintain speed as the yaw changes and the dynamic downforce load on the car changes.  Suddenly, the driver-less car comes to a stop on the stainless-steel track...
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Audit Savings for Motor Coach Industries
By Ron Marshall, CET, CIM, Manitoba Hydro
Motor Coach Industries, headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, is the largest manufacturer of intercity tour coaches for the tour, charter, line-haul, scheduled service, commuter transit and conversion markets in the U.S. and Canada. The company operates a four screw-type air compressor system at its Clarence Avenue plant in Winnipeg. To maintain adequate system pressure at the plant, Motor Coach was forced to run all four compressors 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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