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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Electric generator"”.
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Emergency Diesel-Electric Generator Set Maintenance and Test Periodicity
… for maintenance and tests of emergency diesel-electric generator sets in emergency standby duty. There is little consistency among generator sets of similar technology, and manufacturers and their representatives often provide contradictory guidance. As a result, periodicity of emergency …
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Mobile power plants : waste body heat recovery
… heat into useful and useable amounts of electricity were studied. Thermoelectric, magneto hydrodynamic, and piezo-electric energy conversions at the desired scope were evaluated to understand their role and utility in the efficient conversion of waste body heat. The piezo-electric …
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Design and development of a custom dual fuel (hydrogen and gasoline) power system for an extended range electric vehicle architecture
… transportation system. The Extended Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) has been identified as an ideal intermediate vehicle technology. In this context, the objective of this thesis is to establish the scientific and engineering fundamentals for the design and development of a Dual-Fuel …
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Modeling and control of a wind turbine as a distributed resource in an electric power system
Deregulation of electric utilities has led to consideration of new distributed resources (DRs) such as wind turbines. The DR dynamics have to be studied carefully to avoid unpredictable outputs and unknown interferences as well as to make sure that consistent and efficient power is supplied …
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Run-Time HEV Engine-Generator Power-Speed Optimization for Fuel Consumption and Emissions Reduction
… standards become more stringent, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) using series architectures are being increasingly explored. Due to the decoupling of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) from the road, the primary control challenge in this architecture is the optimization of an ICE …
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Análise de zeros atrasados em unidades offshore
… asymmetric currents are expected to appear in electrical systems, whenever a short circuit occurs somewhere nearby electric generators buses. In the case of offshore production platforms, the so called asymmetry, along with other specific conditions, may give rise to the so called “delayed …
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Towards and industrial ecosystem for power MEMS
… of order 10-100 Watts of power by driving an electric generator, as exemplified by the famous MIT microturbine. The second are micro fuel cells, electrochemical devices which air oxidize chemical fuels, particularly the direct methanol fuel cell which operates at modest temperatures and hence …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de una planta generadora de electricidad de 120 MW por medio de concentradores solares cilíndricos parabólicos
Propose a viable project of electric generation with solar cylindrical parabolic concentrators. The government is promoting the development of Renewable Energy Resources (RER) by favorable legislation. It is looking to give clean energies, more importance in the energetic matrix. Since the year …
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Green Chimney - Localized Carbon Sequestration in closed Environment
… to reduce CO2 emission that is produced from a generator. The flue gas from a portable electric generator that contained CO2 is channeled into transparent glass tanks with 50,000ppm (5% vol) as a starting level. Meanwhile specimen plants are put in tanks that are tightly sealed to create a …
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Parametric Study on a Novel Waste Heat Recovery System
… project involving a novel waste heat-to-electricity conversion system. This proprietary system utilizes thermal energy from a low temperature heat sources to produce torque that drives an electric generator to produce electricity. The system needs to be studied through scientific research …
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Design, validation and application of wave-to-wire models for heaving point absorber wave energy converters
… wave energy farm has yet been connected to the electricity grid. This means that none of the technologies suggested in the literature has achieved economic viability. In order to make wave energy converters economically viable, it is essential to accurately understand and evaluate the holistic …
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Design methodologies and prototyping of a starter-geenrator for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for civil applications
During the recent years the development and use of uninhabited aircraft, in the form of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) has progressed quickly. An uninhabited aircraft is defined as the general term for UAV (Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), ROA (Remotely Operated Aircraft), and …