Operational efficiency refers to how well a business manages its resources and uses them to produce profits. While the best practices for maximizing operational efficiency are different for each ...

Before data center infrastructure efficiency can be benchmarked using PUE or other metrics, there must be agreement on exactly what power consumptions constitute IT loads, what consumptions constitute ...

Q-I have been talking with contractors about a new air conditioner for my home. How can I calculate which unit will be most economical for me? A-Take a look at the rating of the air conditioners that ...

A method has been developed that allows direct, accurate calculation of recovery efficiency for Claus sulfur-recovery units (SRU). The calculation combines feed-gas data and tail-gas composition to ...

Marginal efficiency of capital (MEC) is the discount rate at which the present value of the future yields from a capital asset are equal to its cost of acquisition. The idea behind computing the MEC ...

Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) is used to demonstrate the relationship between a soil’s total nitrogen input compared with its nitrogen output. Calculating NUE will give growers a starting point from ...

An American research team developed the new formula by applying to bifacial cells the Shockley-Queisser triangle, which is used to calculate the maximum theoretical efficiency of a monofacial solar ...

Aerodynamic alloy wheels and the lack of a radiator grille aside, electric cars look very much like their petrol and diesel equivalents, despite the engineering and chemistry under the metal being ...