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| Leighton Contractors & e3k develop energy efficiency benchmark Leighton Contractors, one of Australia's leading contracting and project development groups, and e3k, a leading Australian Engineering consultancy, have teamed up to create the Leighton Energy Efficiency Equations, or Le3 method for short, for benchmarking the energy efficiency of material transportation. The idea for the research and development came from Leighton Contractors, operators of one of the largest fleet of bulk materials transport vehicles (haul trucks) in Australia and New Zealand. The R&D work undertaken produced several mathematical equations which took into account many inputs that were logged and available from the vehicles and the mining operations, as well as key physical parameters. Using these equations, live data from vehicles can be readily manipulated by computer to provide a comparison with best-practice benchmark efficiency parameters for a particular fleet. The output information is able to be easily analysed to give regular guidance on the status of everchanging energy efficiency of fleets, vehicle types, haul routes, individual vehicles and drivers. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |