Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2502 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144390)
Principal Investigator: Keating,Jerome P
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 33,554
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 7/1/22 - 11/30/22
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: none
Department, Center, School, or Institute: COB MGMT SCIENCE & STATISTICS
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: San Miguel Electric Cooperative Reconciliation
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
San Miguel Electric Cooperative
Program Title: none
Note:
SAMs 1.1.7 Reconciliation of extracted lignite with stored or burned lignite is a process monitored by accountants, engineers, and the EPA. This reconciliation process has been of great interest to all three groups (finance, engineering, regulators). In this initial, Phase I, project the project team will explore areas in which we can collaborate and identify areas wherein students can learn industry fundamentals and practice industrial statistics. UTSA proposes to assist with monitoring the efficiency of the lignite coal-fired burner and determining whether or not the reconciliation process can be modeled sufficiently well to determine the exchange of fuel for highly precise and accurate reconciliation. However, the team recognizes that the variations (noise) may be too great such that reconciliation is not feasible, or only feasible to certain degrees of accuracy. Current, SMEC (sponsor) employees a variety of methods in its extraction and storage processes; and, they seek to reconcile the differences among these methods on extracted lignite. The project team will discuss magnitude, state and transmissibility of the data for analysis; learn about the systemic variation in the fuel content extracted by an examination of historical records; determine the methodology needed to analyze the process of extraction, transportation, burning and storage of fuel; and, review sampling methods and results from the excavation process and the storage process; review the extraction process.
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