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RSS power plantInternational Power Fuels Growth With IBM Maximo Asset Management
White Paper With a small IT team, the company was keen to fast-track the deployment of a single maintenance management system across each plant. The company was established in 2000, following the demerger of National... [01 Oct 2009]
What Is Data Mining, and How Is It Useful for Power Plant Optimization?: (And How Is It Different From DOE, CFD, Statistical Modeling)
White Paper While the general approach is similar regardless of application (finding "Nuggets" of new information in data), some specific methodologies and techniques for optimizing continuous processes, such as boiler performance in a coal-burning... [29 Aug 2009]
Renewable Energy Startup Goes Lean and Green With Shorty
White Paper Cascade Grain Products is a new $113.4 million gallon ethanol plant in Clatskanie, Oregon. The company wanted to equip new plant with an expandable and energy-efficient server and storage infrastructure. [22 Jun 2009]
Protect Network-Based Power Grid Applications From Denial of Service Attacks
White Paper Today distributed industrial networks use Internet to transmit feedback and control signals between a plant and a controller. This paper designs the Protection Overlay Layer (OPL) such that it makes a secure layer for... [20 Jun 2009]
Southern Company Reduces Cost, Time, and Risk by Relying on Informatica Data Integration Platform for Major Data Migration
White Paper The company wanted to facilitate and accelerate the migration of legacy mainframe data from three nuclear power plants to create an integrated, standardized multi-plant workflow and document management... [12 Jun 2009]
The Energy Crops Company - Changing Minds About Renewable Energy
White Paper Aspectus had to explain the benefits of biomass to a range of different audiences, from central government to local planners, and architects to plumbers, and prove that not every plant-derived fuel was bad news. [16 Apr 2009]
How CIOs are like poker players, becoming CEO and more
Comment A good gardener needs to understand the soil and climate to know how best to plant. If there is time to push the power of innovation it is now. Companies are looking at tactical measures to keep the... [12 Jan 2009]
Golden Concord Fuels Expansion Plans With New Enterprise Systems
White Paper The group has set up an integrated operational system spanning project development, investment and financial operations, electricity engineering design, technological R&D, logistics, power plant... [10 Dec 2008]
Application of Data Mining to Optimize Settings for Generator Tripping and Load Shedding System (RPTC) in Emergency Control at Hydro-Quebec
White Paper The automatic generator tripping and load shedding system (RPTC) described in this paper is installed at the Churchill Falls hydroelectric power plant (5500 MW) in Labrador. This paper describes the... [18 Sep 2008]
Battery tech can't keep up the portable pace
News Just last month, Sony opened a lithium ion polymer battery plant in Singapore, its first in Southeast Asia. Battery technology is not advancing fast enough to satisfy the portable energy needs of enterprise laptop users,... [15 Sep 2008]
Testing Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Enabled Systems: Understanding Potential Impacts on the Certification and Testing Process
White Paper Installation of some types of PoE equipment will require recertification of the existing cabling plant. Power over Ethernet (PoE) is an innovative that is increasingly being used increasingly to... [11 Sep 2008]
Google digs deep for geothermal energy
News The move is part of Google.org's REC (Renewable Energy Less than Coal), an initiative with the goal of producing one gigawatt of electricity - larger than a typical coal-fired power plant - through... [20 Aug 2008]
Creating a "Liquidised" Information Environment Using a Unified, Collaborative Enterprise Portal
White Paper Sanctioned by the State Council of China, Huaneng Dalian Power Plant is a thermal power plant that was established with foreign investment from Huaneng International... [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Feeling chipper about green IT
Photo The 39,000-server centre will draw power from a combined heat and power plant that uses its natural fuel to generate electricity, hot water and steam. Here, wood chippings wait to be... [20 May 2008]
VMware Infrastructure 3 and Stratus Servers: A Manufacturing Industry Guide to Maximizing Application Uptime and Minimizing Lifecycle Management Costs
White Paper It allows manufacturers to take advantage of computing power that would otherwise go to waste in typical plant environments. With the increasing deployment of plant-level IT solutions... [01 Mar 2008]
