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Energy Costs: A New Factor in Pipe Size Selection
Author(s) -
Walski Thomas M.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1980.tb04525.x
Subject(s) - selection (genetic algorithm) , nominal pipe size , energy cost , energy (signal processing) , reliability engineering , environmental science , computer science , engineering , environmental economics , economics , materials science , mathematics , statistics , composite material , artificial intelligence
With energy costs rising at an even greater rate than construction costs, it may be cost effective over the life of a transmission line to select a larger pipe size than would traditionally be used.