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Energy as a Direct Cost
A fundamental tenet of process control is that you must be able to measure a variable before you can control it. So, given the volatility of energy costs these days, it’s no wonder that even energy producers like Valero Energy Corp. (www.valero.com), purportedly North America’s largest independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, based in San...
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