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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"energy potential"”.
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An economic valuation of solar energy potential in Nigeria
… access. Many initiatives promote solar energy development to mitigate Nigeria's power challenges. This work shows an economic valuation of the solar photovoltaic (PV) potential in Nigeria. Assuming a 100 megawatts (MW) capacity upgrade, this paper compares distributed residential-scale …
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Solar Energy Potential Assessment On Façades Using Geo-referenced Digital Elevation Models
… with limited rooftop space, installing solar energy technologies on the facades can effectively respond to the current barriers to their deployment on rooftops. However, since there is a dearth of efficient façade solar potential assessment models, feasibility analysis of such projects within …
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Relationship Between Wind and Solar Electrical Energy Potential in the Texas Hill Country: A Study at the Texas State Freeman Ranch Center
… concerns creating a need for renewable energy sources. The purpose of this study is to analyze metrological data collected at the Freeman Ranch Center to determine if there is the potential for wind energy to supplement solar energy, creating more consistent and reliable energy for the …
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Integration of renewable energy with urban design : based on the examples of the solar photovoltaics and micro wind turbines
To deal with the challenge of climate change and energy security, renewable energy has been widely regarded as an increasingly important solution leading to a more sustainable future. Given the fact that more than half of all energy is consumed in cities today, designers and academics have sought …
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Ring Dynamics in the Western Gulf of Mexico
… by following the evolution of volume, energy, potential vorticity, angular momentum and enstrophy within a model ring as it moves westward and encounters a fossil ring along the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico. By comparing the model results with drifter and hydrographic data …
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Rural Energy Development: Are Mini-grids the solution to East Africa's Energy Crisis
… Africa continue to grow, the demand for modern energy will correspondingly increase. The current energy policy and limited overall access rate is not prepared for this massive demand increases and presents a major hindrance to country growth potential. This thesis focuses on the countries in …
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Long term optimization of energy supply and demand in Vietnam with special reference to the potential of renewable energy
The expected strong growth of energy demand in Vietnam raises questions concerning the availability of resources and environmental degradation. This study aims at carrying out a long-term integrated energy planning for Vietnam with special reference to the potential of renewable energy. For this …
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Electric field quenching of single-walled carbon nanotube photoluminescence
… becomes stronger with the decrease in bandgap energy. Potential theoretical models will be discussed.
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THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CONCENTRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC (CPV) SYSTEM WITH HYDROGEN PRODUCTION AS ENERGY STORAGE
… rating, it is found that the CPV systems have potential to be installed in urban region, with 2-3 times higher energy potential than the stationary PV systems, even in the tropical weather of Singapore. Furthermore, due to intermittency of the solar energy, the performance of CPV system is …
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Modelagem constitutiva de ligas magnéticas com memória de forma
… frequencies. These characteristics make MSMAs a potential candidate for a new generation of sensors and actuators that produce large stroke/force and high opeeration frequency. This work concerns with a novel constitutive model based on internal variables that describe the phenomenological …
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Method Development for the Synthesis of Anaerobic Digester Biogas with the Laboratory Environment
… interest in researching and utilizing the energy potential associated with its combustion. Siloxanes, a family of volatile organic silicon compounds, pose large impediments to biogas usage due to the formation and precipitation of silicon dioxide within combustion devices. Removal of …
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The siting of wind turbines
… Roberts completed a report on the cost of wind energy in South Africa. His results showed that wind-energy in South Africa was uneconomical, but they suggest that at locations with higher wind speeds, the cost of wind power would approach the South African grid electricity cost. Knowing that …
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Critical Analysis of Pyrolysis and Gasification Applied to Waste Fractions with Growing Energetic Content
… the optimization of light packaging waste to energy alternative processes such as pyrolysis and gasification. Over more the development of an original integrated municipal solid waste scenario model that integrates the experimental results obtained in the thesis have a practical meaning …
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Avaliação da torrefação e densificação de resíduos agrícolas no Brasil
… the field, which ultimately carry a considerable potential to produce energy vectors. Nonetheless, the energy usage of this resource face technical and logistical challenges. The torrefaction of biomass converts it into a coal-like product, while the densification concentrates its mass per unit of …
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Reservoir characterization of the Deadwood formation western North Dakota, Williston Basin
… for oil and gas exploration and alternative energy production. The previous Deadwood Formation published literature documents surface and subsurface research, with the only outcrops exposed in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Despite decades of petroleum exploration and development in the …
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Lignocellulosic Bio Fuel Production In Iceland, A System Dynamics Approach.
Iceland is an island with a lot of energy potential in the form of hydro- and geother- mal energy. But still there is enormous amount of fossil fuel imports each year. This posses an enormous economic problem for Iceland as fossil fuels are non renewable and will eventually run out. The paper …
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Investigation of the interface shearing resistance of steel and concrete on different rocks for renewable energy gravity foundation applications
Tidal stream energy is a form of marine energy with significant advantages compared to other types of offshore renewables, albeit the levelised cost of energy is relatively high. Various types of foundations have been considered for prototype tidal stream generators, however the utilisation of …
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Explosive energy yield analysis of World Trade Center crash
An estimation of the energy yielded from the explosion created by the crash of United Flight 175 into the World Trade Center was conducted to rule out the possibility of other explosive elements (i.e. a bomb) on board. The amount of fuel ignited and the corresponding energy yielded by the fireball …
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Rethinking the light water reactor fuel cycle
… Furthermore, only a small fraction of the energy potential in the fuel is being used. All these concerns can be addressed if a closed fuel cycle strategy is considered offering the possibility for partitioning and transmutation of long lived radioactive waste, enhanced proliferation …
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