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Showing 1 to 20 of 159 for “"hydropower"”.
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Energy security in Asia - Himalayan hydropower
… and potential feasibility of investment in hydropower in the Himalayan region and China. Hydropower’s carbon free and sustainable image has come under threat thanks to increasing concerns over climate change, population growth, and energy demand. Existing implications and evolving …
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Global development, acoustic and emissive consequences of hydropower
… for renewable, climate neutral energy sources. Hydropower provides an efficient, low maintenance and flexible form of energy, which can provide ancillary benefits such as flood control, water storage and job creation. Yet, the construction of dams for hydropower production has been recognised by …
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A Geographic Study Of The Laotian Hydropower Sector
… that is geographically endowed with significant hydropower assets. Hydropower represents one of very few quick and profitable, exportable resources for Laos as a least developed country, and is seen as the avenue of escape from poverty for the nation. In the past two decades, Laos has seen both …
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Hydropower cities : a new candidate for eco-utopia
… the time are used as a mean to generate energy. Hydropower energy is one of most efficient and renewable ways of energy production which has negative other implications on human and natural environments. Design and construction of large scale dams provide regional water and global energy support …
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The Brazilian electricity market : small hydropower strategic planning
… than 70% of its installed capacity coming from hydropower puts Brazil in a great position in terms of reduced environmental impact on electricity generation. However, it also creates a large supply dependency on weather, water flows and reservoirs. In the last 2-3 years, the country has been …
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Resilience Models for Large Hydropower Diversions: Insights from Calcinere, Italy
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Managing Flow, Sediment And Hydropower In The Mekong River Basin
… to current plans, and (3) quantify the losses in hydropower production that may be necessary to achieve improved sediment passage. To permit such evaluations, a sediment simulation model, SedSim, was developed in partnership with various water resources and energy ministries in Cambodia, Lao PDR …
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Reviving Dams: A Relational Technopolitics of Hydropower in the Himalaya
… Starting with the construction of the Arun-3 hydropower project in Nepal, which has been revived after more than a decade-long suspension, I show that the resurgence of mega dams in the region is reflective of a new technopolitical regime. This new regime comprises an expanding base of ‘new’ …
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Cost comparison of hydropower options for rural electrification in Rwanda
The decision to develop a hydropower plant depends on several factors, which cost is the most significant. This thesis, entitled "Cost comparison of hydropower options for rural electrification in Rwanda" intends to show that the use of a large number of mini hydropower plants for electrification …
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Reactive power potential: A contribution of hydropower for the Energy Transition
… <br/>This study explores the critical role of hydropower plants in stabilizing the energy <br/>system. In addition to generating renewable energy, hydropower plants are highly <br/>adaptable and can play a vital role in ensuring system security by providing reactive <br/>power. The research …
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Model parameter uncertainty and climate change effects in hydropower vulnerability projections
Hydropower is a major source of renewable energy in the Western United States and could be a particularly important source of both firm power and ancillary services in a decarbonizing grid. However, hydropower availability is vulnerable to drought conditions exacerbated by climate change, with …
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Low-head hydropower as a reserve power source for wind power
… study proposes an alternative hypothesis: that hydropower turbines installed at low-head dams can provide similar reserve power generation to support wind, thereby avoiding the externalities associated with fossil-fuel plants and conventional hydropower. Low-head dams, common across the United …
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Technology, Time, and the State: The Aesthetics of Hydropower in Postcolonial Egypt
This thesis analyzes the work of Hamed Owais, Tahia Halim, and Inji Efflatoun, three artists who were active in Egypt during its era of decolonization following the 1952 Revolution. Using the large-scale public works project of the Aswan High Dam as a lens, this study focuses on the ways in which …
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Hydrostatic Pressure Converters for the Exploitation of Very Low Head Hydropower Potential
Much of the world's available hydropower potential has been exploited, and within the western world attention is increasingly being focussed on hydropower sites with very low head differences. These are sites where the vertical distance through which water falls is less than five metres, and remain …
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Thermo-chemo-mechanical modelling of hydropower structures affected by alkali silica reaction
… In this study, a finite element model of a hydropower plant affected by ASR showing no signs of exhaustion even after 60 years of operation, was developed, validated and calibrated. From the analysis of the developed model in which a macrostructural thermo-chemo-mechanical ASR constitutive …
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The transfer of energy technology : a case study of hydropower in Lesotho
… in the recipient country using the transfer of hydropower technology to Lesotho as a case study. The work reviewed the literature on this subject as a background to the development of a technology transfer framework that formed the basis of the analysis. The framework was tested using the Muela …
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Agricultural vs. hydropower tradeoffs in the operation of the High Aswan Dam
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1981.
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Feasibility of retrofitting existing hydropower infrastructure for use in renewable energy storage
… feasibility of retrofitting the Big Creek hydropower system in central California (Edison International) by carrying a preliminary technical feasibility study. The Big Creek system is composed of 6 reservoirs and currently supports about 1GW of capacity. We found that by expanding the …
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