Qicheng Chen (ID: 107072669) SBC 308 Spring 13 Due Date: April 15, 2013

Electricity is necessary to meet the average production and living conditions, however it is becoming more apparent that individuals and businesses are starting to reduce energy consumption, improve the power utilization and reduce the power loss of the power supply network. Energy utilization is the ratio of total effective power users can take advantage of the total electrical energy consumption. Due to the poor performance of electrical equipment, electricity and other energy conversion pass times, inefficient equipment loss will increase. Low levels of electrical process operating the irrational process parameters, and between the various processes, lack of coordination, as well as mismanagement, management loss will increase. New technologies are being continuously developed to help reduce energy consumption and maximize efficiency. One usage is the application of high-efficiency motors, and according to the different requirements of the correct choice of the type and capacity of the motor, using state-of-the-art motor speed control mode and control equipment The main way of saving energy is updating the electrical equipment, the promotion of new energy-saving products, improve equipment operating efficiency. Running equipment (including electrical equipment, such as motors, transformers) and production machinery (such as fans, pumps) is the direct energy consumption object, their running performance merits a direct impact on how much of the power consumption. Previous production equipment performance with the progress of science and technology become obsolete, coupled with longterm use of the wear and tear of aging, the performance will gradually deteriorate. Energy-saving

technological transformation of the equipment must be the important aspect of the work carried out to conserve electricity. The use of high efficiency and low consumption, production of new technology to replace inefficient high consumption of the old process, reduce product power consumption, vigorously promote the use of new technologies, the application of new technologies and new techniques will lead to the improvement of labor productivity, improved product quality and reduced power consumption. Another way is to improve the level of economic operation of the electrical equipment. Equipment to implement the economic operation aims to reduce energy consumption and reduce running costs to a minimum. In most cases, the production of the requirements of the load or service object is a random variable, and the design, often the maximum load to matching device capability. Economic operation of the proposed, is to overcome the equipment long-term energy wasted in inefficient state phenomenon. Economic operation of the load change information fed back to adjust the system to adjust the operating conditions of the equipment, the equipment maintained at high efficiency zone. Various other routes for energy conservation include strengthening the management and assessment of unit product power consumption quotas; enhanced lighting management, conservation of non-production of electricity; Strengthen the economic dispatch of power grid, and efforts to reduce the auxiliary power line loss; and the application of cogeneration. Aforementioned strategies are all general conservation ways, there are certain specific ways for different types of individuals in terms of energy conservation, and theyre aimed at either private enterprises aside from individual users such as families. Power consumption in the daily life of major household appliances is inevitable. However, everyone should have the awareness of

energy saving by starting small. For lighting appliances, use fluorescent lights instead of incandescent, fluorescent lamps can greatly reduce power consumption. TVs are essential to daily life, the use of the longest on TV, we want volume and light brightness adjusted to the best condition, louder the brightness, the more power consumption, so that has to be reduced. Another problem is letting TV in standby mode for a long time, it will not only waste electricity, but also will reduce its life. The refrigerator should be placed in a cool, well-ventilated place, it must not be close to a heat source, in order to ensure good heat dissipation of the heat sink. For air conditioning, room temperature set at 27 to 28 C is appropriate, any lower than that is a waste of energy The air filter should be cleaned on a regular basis, up to 30% of electricity can be saved by doing so. Big enterprises have gradually increased, with the height of USs economic development, which has an important role in promoting the growth of United Statess GDP. However, it also led to a series of issues, including corporate power has become one worthy of our attention to the problem. US's production of electricity produces a lot of problems, such as large power consumption. Low supply and distribution system operating efficiency, irrational allocation of transformers and distribution lines, electrical equipment obsolescence and poor power quality. All of it points to the need for re-examination of corporate power, and reasonable measures to find companies to conserve electricity. For businesses to conserve electricity, some of the problems has to be addressed which exist in the current corporate power. Enterprises should develop certain rules and regulations, and to strictly control the use of electrical energy as well as having reward and punishment incentives. The second way would be that corporate enterprise is a large consumer of electricity, it naturally has great power consumption, so from the start bit by bit, the first thing is to

strengthen the lighting management, to ensure the effective use of lighting to avoid wasting. Third, the use of industrial waste heat power generationfactories and enterprises during the main production will shed a lot of waste heat, and enterprises to reasonable use of waste heat for production and living.

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