Wilbur Scoville Pharmaceutical Association and in 1929 he received the Remington Honor Medal. Scoville also received an honorary Doctor of Science from Columbia University in 1929. He won the following awards from the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA): Wilbur Scoville Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (January 22, 1865 – March 10, 1942) was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of the "Scoville Organoleptic Test", now standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure pungency, "spiciness" or "heat", of various chili peppers. Scoville was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He married
Heat rate (efficiency) Heat rate (efficiency) Heat rate is a term commonly used in power stations to indicate the power plant efficiency. The heat rate is the inverse of the efficiency: a lower heat rate is better. formula_1 While efficiency is a dimensionless measure (sometimes quoted in %) heat rate is typically expressed as Btu/kWh. This is because Watt-hours are more commonly used when referring to electrical energy and Btu is more commonly used when referring to thermal energy. Heat rate in the context of power plants can be thought of as the input needed to produce one unit of output. It generally