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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Load reduction"”.
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Reducing future bushfire risk : optimal strategies for fuel load reduction
… Life Cycle Costing (LCC) to evaluate three fuel load reduction strategies: Fuel Reduction Burning (FRB), Mechanical Fuel Load Reduction (MFLR), and their combination. The DSS quantifies environmental impacts (e.g., greenhouse gas and PM2.5 emissions), economic costs, social cost, and geospatial …
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An efficient up-link load reduction model based on clustering in vanets
… The aim of this thesis is to mitigate uplink load at Base-Stations (BSs) resulted from the following: first, increased number of vehicles in the urban city leads to an increase in the number of cluster head (CH) in the network while each CH required uplink channel from BS. Second, increased …
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Full envelope wind turbine controller design for power regulation and tower load reduction
… 2MW wind turbine for power regulation and tower load reduction. Due to the highly stochastic nature of the wind, a wind turbine is exposed to strongly varying loads. More specifically tower loads are a major concern and there is little literature proposing solutions towards their mitigation. One …
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Load reduction and invasive mussel effects on eutrophication dynamics in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron
<p>Phosphorus load reduction and dreissenid invasion are the two most important factors that influence europhication dynamics in the Great Lakes. The 1978 amendments to the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) between the United States and Canada established target phosphorus loads for the …
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Microbiological Study of Bacterial Load Reduction in the Root Canal System Utilizing a Novel ErYagLaser
… irrigation technique in reducing bacterial load in root canals. In this study, mandibular molars are prepared and cultured with Enterococcus faecalis, and experiment was perform to test whether laser-activated irrigation could significantly reduce bacteria in the root canal system. The teeth …
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Uncertainty Analysis of the Performance of a System of Best Management Practices for Achieving Phosphorus Load Reduction to Surface Waters
… management system that results in excessive loads to the lake. In response, Canadian and United States’ governments have issued a new management objective, a 40% reduction in total and dissolved reactive phosphorus loads relative to 2008. To provide scientific evidence to guide managers …
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A Deep Learning-based Dynamic Demand Response Framework
… performs three major functionalities: electrical load forecast, electrical load disaggregation and peak load reduction during DR periods. The building-level electrical load forecasting quantifies required peak load reduction during DR periods. The electrical load disaggregation provides …
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Comparing Two Methods for Developing Local Sediment TMDLs to Address Benthic Impairments
… by the Clean Water Act, a total maximum daily load (TMDL) must be developed for impaired waters. When developing a TMDL for aquatic life use impairment where sediment has been identified as the primary pollutant, the target sediment load is often determined using a non-impaired reference …
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Characterizing transient and seasonal responses of bioreactors for subsurface drains
… to bioreactor performance. The average load reduction achieved over all runs was 63.1%, with average minimum and maximum load reductions of 20.1 and 97.5%, respectively. Efficiency of nitrate load removal decreased as flow rate increased. In cases when nitrate-N influent concentrations …
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Assessing environmental equivalents for water quality trading
… dischargers who need to reduce their pollutant loads with land managers who could offset those loads with nonpoint source (NPS) reductions to economically achieve water quality improvements in a watershed. The potential issues impeding WQT are its inability to address trading risks and quantify …
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Study of residential demand for electricity as functions of load control schemes and dwelling characteristics
… is a large and important factor of the utility load during the system peak period. And the control of residential demand can make a significant change to the system load of the utility. This research is designed to study the residential end-use appliances under various direct load control …
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The structural behavior of cold-formed steel members with perforated elements
… structural members. Since in many cases, the load-carrying capacity of cold-formed steel members depends on the buckling behavior of individual component elements, emphasis has been concentrated on the study of the instability and post-buckling strength of perforated elements. In this …
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Prescribed Fire in a Florida Landscape with Mixed Ownership: Spatial Interactions
… One of the most important wildfire risk reduction tools is prescribed fire to reduce fuel loads, thereby reducing wildfire intensity and resulting damages. Because fire moves across a landscape and ownership boundaries, the spatial pattern of fuel load reduction may influence individual …
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Low-Rank Distributed Control with Application to Wind Energy
… can be used in order to reduce the fatigue loads experienced by the wind turbines. The problem is studied in a linear-quadratic control setting where the objective is to minimize the total fatigue load experienced by the turbines, while satisfying a requirement on their joint power …
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Computer Aided Home Energy Management system
… indicator of power system condition in the peak load management programs. This paper investigates the potential of peak load management based on price-responsive load control for the residential sector. The Computer Aided Home Energy Management (CAHEM) system controls residential demand in …
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Wrongful Convictions as a Result of Public Defender Representation.
… established that is referred to as the partial load reduction theory. This theory establishes the relationship that exists between wrongful convictions and public defender representation and provides solutions as well as new avenues for future research.</p>
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Thermal Performance Comparison of Three Integrated Thermal Solar Roof Collectors
… system. In the cooling season, cooling load reduction and preheating domestic hot water can be achieved by operating this system. The traditional solar thermal system is an add-on system rather than integrated, which increases the cost-benefit ratio. The current system is integrated with …
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An Expert-based Approach for Demand Curtailment Allocation Subject to Communications and Cyber Security Limitations
… management is proposed, which determines load reduction amounts at various segments of the network to maintain the balance between generation and demand. Appropriate communication technologies and the network topology are used to implement these load reduction amounts down to the end-user. …
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Model Predictive Energy Management for Building Microgrids with IoT-based Controllable Loads
… with internet of things (IoT) based flexible loads to synchronize the buildings’ controllable components, with occupant behavior and environmental conditions. We employ model predictive control (MPC) methods to minimize building operating costs, while maximizing the utilization of the on-site …
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Electricity demand-side management for an energy efficient future in China : technology options and policy priorities
… and policy options which achieve substantial reductions in electricity demand in China's Shandong Province. This research utilizes a scenario-based approach to identify sensible and feasible energy efficiency and load reduction strategies. The research consists of technical analyses through …
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