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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Electric power production"”.
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Application of wind in large-scale electric power production
The application of wind power in various fields of energy requirements has been examined. Specific applications of the three broad classes of wind machines - Small, Intermediate and Large-scale, have been evaluated. Two methodologies were developed which could compute the amount of wind power …
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A comparison of ground source heat pumps and micro-combined heat and power as residential greenhouse gas reduction strategies
Both ground source heat pumps operating on electricity and micro-combined heat and power systems operating on fossil fuels offer potential for the reduction of green house gas emissions in comparison to the conventional approaches for providing heating, air conditioning and electric power to …
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Solving dynamic economic dispatch problems using pattern search based methods with particular focus on the West Doha Power Station in Kuwait
… context of the current and future needs of the electrical power system in the State of Kuwait. General Economic Dispatch (ED) issues are addressed, under both static and dynamic conditions, with valve-point effects accounted for. Improvements have been achieved in terms of lower fuel costs, but …
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Experimental investigations of using silica aerogel to harvest unconcetrated sunlight in a solar thermal receiver
Significant demand exists for solar thermal heat in the mid-temperature ranges (120 oC – 220 oC). Generating heat in this range requires expensive optics or vacuum systems in order to utilize the diluted solar energy flux reaching the earth’s surface. Current flat plate solar collectors have …
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Waste heat recovery from aluminum production
Around half of the energy consumed in aluminum production is lost as waste heat. Approximately 30-45% of the total waste heat is carried away by the exhaust gas from the smelter which is the most easily accessible waste heat stream. Alcoa Fjardaal in east Iceland produces 350 000 tons annually, …
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Thermoeconomic model and feasibility study of geothermal power cycle with Lithium extraction
… while exploiting a geothermal resource for power generation applications consists of various minerals in different concentrations. Increased demand for lithium, mainly for the electric vehicle industry, has increased the economic viability of extracting the mineral from geothermal brine. …
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Stromerzeugung in Deutschland unter den Rahmenbedingungen von Klimapolitik und liberalisiertem Strommarkt : Bewertung von Kraftwerksinvestitionen mit Bayes’schen Einflussdiagrammen
Mit der Liberalisierung des Strommarkts, den unsicheren Aussichten in der Klimapolitik und stark schwankenden Preisen bei Brennstoffen, Emissionsrechten und Kraftwerkskomponenten hat bei Kraftwerksinvestitionen das Risikomanagement an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dies äußert sich im vermehrten Einsatz …
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Solar panel damage identification using tensorflow lite
… utility-scale PV installations is rising, with a power capacity of 12.5 Gigawatts installed in 2021, 10.4 in 2022, and an estimated 24 Gigawatts installed in 2023 [1]. With larger-scale installations, quicker ways of identifying and locating damaged PV arrays are needed. The solution presented in …
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Optimisation of hybrid micro-grid system for LTE base station
… for the degree of Master of Engineering in Electrical Power Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2020.
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Geoejector : extracting geothermal fluid from a low-pressure geothermal well
… designed to meet the operational requirement for power production and analyzed with an analytical and numerical model. The result of the models are promising, and it is found that the new setup could potentially increase the pressure of geothermal fluid from low-pressure well sufficiently or up to …
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Exploration of the benefits derived from free basic electricity programme in mitigating energy poverty and the impediments faced in its implementation in the Eastern Pondoland
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management Sciences: Public Administration and Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2019.
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Optimal power generation in microgrids using agent-based technology
The existing power grids that form the basis of the respective electrical power infrastructures for various states and nations around the world, are expected to undergo a period of rapid change in the near future. The key element driving this change is the emergence of the Smartgrid. The Smartgrid …