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HOT COMMODITY [2 records]

Record 1 2011-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
CONT

Cogeneration operates on a very basic principle : Generating electricity produces heat; cogeneration equipment captures that heat and uses it to supply hot water, steam, space heating-even cooling. Thus, an otherwise byproduct of electricity generation becomes a highly useful commodity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
CONT

Les équipements de cogénération sont destinés à produire dans un site unique (essentiellement dans l'industrie chimique) plusieurs formes d'énergie : électrique, mécanique, calorifique; pour ce faire, on récupère la chaleur perdue dans les gaz d'échappement de turbines à gaz et des moteurs diesel, ainsi que dans les fumées de générateurs de vapeur. [...] (Science et Technologie, 03.1988, no 3, p. 7

Spanish

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Record 2 1997-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
CONT

Pacific Tortilla Kitchen's(PTK) new Deli Wrap is one hot commodity-but not, repeat, not a burrito.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation

Spanish

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