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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Stand-alone system"”.
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Economic feasibility analysis of photovoltaic installations in the Las Vegas Valley
… Demand Side Management (DSM) as well as for a stand-alone system. The proposed analytical equations are capable of accommodating the constant changes in the system parameters due to the advances in new technologies and changes in electric utility industry. An economic feasibility study is …
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Real-Time Signal Processing and Hardware Development for a Wavelength Modulated Optical Fiber Sensor System
… fiber sensing techniques, is to implement a stand alone system with the design and development of all the signal processing models along with the necessary hardware, firmware, and software satisfying the real-time signal processing requirements. In this work we first develop the equations for …
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The transfer of oil and gas technology skills to the conceptual design and development of a novel low cost modular Tidal Energy Conversion deployment system.
… generate revenue through power sales or just a stand alone system to generate off grid electricity. Previous work conducted on large scale tidal installations have shown that they suffer from excessive costs and time lines, due to their up front design philosophy. This thesis discusses the …
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Enabling supply chain cooperation with information sharing
Virtual Business System (VBS) is a system with software and hardware components designed by Raytheon employees to improve operational performance by facilitating and reinforcing lean behavior. It has helped contribute to four years in a row of twenty-percent yearly reductions in costs by providing …
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Development of a performance-based approach for collision avoidance and mitigation
… are numerous algorithms suggests a need to understand the underlying principles behind the equation design and threshold settings. This thesis presents a methodology to develop appropriate alerting thresholds based on performance metrics. This also allows us to compare different alerting …
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A systems approach to assessing the sustainability of hybrid community energy systems.
… assessment of the sustainability of a system. Despite the different measures available in the literature, a standard and universally accepted index for assessing sustainability does not yet exist. This thesis develops a novel Integrated Sustainability Index (ISI) for energy systems that …
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Development of an optical cavity-based biosensor for point-of-care diagnostics.
… bovine serum albumin (BSA) were performed. Standard refractive index fluids were introduced to the cavity, then the changes in intensities of transmitted lights were measured by the camera. The measurement results matched up well with the simulation results. After the refractive index …
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A Multi-platform Job Submission System for Epidemiological Simulation Models
… computing. Distributed frameworks are systems comprised of many computing resources that are coupled together to perform one or more tasks. In a scientific grid-like environment, there are many different applications which require vast computing resources for simulation, execution, or …
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Three terminal Si-Si:Ge monolitic tandem solar cells
Stand-alone transparent Si solar cell and low band gap Si:Ge solar cell can be applied together in a high performance multi-junction solar cell system to absorb the middle and long wavelength light. In this system, optics needs to be designed carefully for the back side of transparent Si solar cell …
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Development of a sustainable water treatment technology for oxyanions using palladium-based catalysts: catalyst design, reaction mechanisms, and life cycle assessment
… and nitrate, from drinking water, either as a stand-alone system or in combination with ion exchange (IX), and to compare the overall costs and environmental sustainability of the technology with other available oxyanion treatment technologies. My thesis work specifically contributed to three …
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Distributed Generation Systems Based on Hybrid Wind/Photovoltaic/Fuel Cell Structures
… renewable energy technologies. Fuel cell (FC) systems also show enormous potential in future DG applications, due to a fast technology development, high efficiency, environment friendliness and modularity. Hybrid systems encompassing wind, photovoltaic and FC generators are today revised as a …
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High-performance power converters leveraging capacitor-based energy transfer
… demand for high performance power conversion systems continuously pushes for improvement in efficiency and power density. This dissertation focuses on a topological effort to efficiently utilize the active and passive devices. In particular, a hybrid approach is adopted, where both capacitors …
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Impact of Total Quality Management, work teams, and Just-In-Time on the performance of the Mexican manufacturing industry
… of people rather than to problems with technical systems per se. In particular, changes in manufacturing often are not accompanied by complementary changes in human resource management. Human resource management considerations such as Work Teams may be as important as other aspects of modern …