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A means to increase the thermal efficiency of a steam electric generating system by converting some waste heat from the condenser into electricity. The heat engine in a bottoming cycle would be a condensing turbine similar in principle to a steam turbine but operating with a different working fluid at a much lower temperature and pressure.
Industry:Energy
A means of billing electric power consumers to pay for the costs of demand side management/energy conservation measures and programs. (See also Benefits Charge.)
Industry:Energy
A mathematical representation of the frequency or ratio that specific wind speeds occur within a specified time interval.
Industry:Energy
A material with high absorbence and low emittance properties applied to or on solar absorber surfaces.
Industry:Energy
A material used to seal areas of potential air leakage into or out of a building envelope.
Industry:Energy
A material that retards the movement of water vapor through a building element (walls, ceilings) and prevents insulation and structural wood from becoming damp and metals from corroding. Often applied to insulation batts or separately in the form of treated papers, plastic sheets, and metallic foils.
Industry:Energy
A material that extracts one or more substances from a fluid (gas or liquid) medium on contact, and which changes physically and/or chemically in the process. The less volatile of the two working fluids in an absorption cooling device.
Industry:Energy
