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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"power technology"”.
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SOLAR MIRRORS CHARACTERIZATION FOR CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER TECHNOLOGY
… who want to invest in concentrating solar power technology, to decide whether or not using a candidate reflectors to realize new plants, assessing their performances, their costs, and their durability.
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Double-Sided Liquid Cooling for Power Semiconductor Devices Using Embedded Power Technology
Power electronics is a constantly growing and demanding technical field. Consumer demand and developing technologies have made the improvement of power density a primary emphasis of research for this area. Power semiconductors present some of the major challenges for increasing system level power …
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Combined heat and power: technology review and analysis for a residential building
… to show the current state of Combined Heat and Power Systems and highlights the different aspects of the technologies. A manufacturer directory was developed and the theoretical principals for planning and analysis of a CHP system are described. In the second part, a case study is analyzed for …
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Commercialization strategies for emerging technologies : wireless power in the market for external power adapters
… to lead the commercialization of a complex technology that is initially unable to meet the demands of a market. Technology, intellectual property, and go-to market strategies are proposed with a particular focus on wireless power technology in the market for external power adapters. Wireless …
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Algorithmic Techniques for Logic Synthesis of Low Power VLSI Circuits
… of the VLSI design flow to reduce the total power consumption in VLSI circuits. These techniques are applicable to circuit implementations based upon static CMOS technology, but are independent of factors such as the specific fabrication process employed or the particular design style …
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Finding Ethical Solutions in Maps and Visualizations to the Social and Political Consequences of Technology
Technology is presented as a new invention, but humans have been developing technology since the beginning of civilization. From the invention of the wheel to the latest iPhone, technology has had a significant impact on society. The world's greatest countries learned to harness technology to …
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Developing a solar energy industry in Egypt
… of solar energy; local manufacturing of solar technology; and research and development in solar energy disciplines is proposed in order to solve the energy challenges faced by the country and capitalize on new opportunities that can bring prosperity to the country. Analysis of the various solar …
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Driving change in commodity management in engineering led firms through optimization studies, modeling, and data driven decision making
… company with products ranging from automation to power technology. Historically relying on technological superiority and a strong customer focus, ABB has focused energy on growth of the top line revenues, and was inconsistent in managing the bottom line costs. In 2004 ABB margins were the thinnest …
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Affective attunement and counter-power affordances of Twitter to the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria
Using the Network theory of Power, and Affective Public, this study employs a Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) to examine the affective attunement and counter-power affordances of Twitter during the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. Drawing on qualitative data collected from …
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Protection of wave power generating system
Ocean Power Technology Project is an innovative technology for generating green energy at low cost, with minimum pollution and producing electrical power from enormous quantities of dependable renewable energy which is available throughout the world in abundance in the form of ocean waves. An …
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Enabling Grid Integration of Combined Heat and Power Plants
… energy into the grid is the Combined Heat and Power technology. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants produce useful thermal and electrical power output from a single input fuel source and are widely used in the industrial and commercial sectors for reliable on-site power production. However, …
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Assessment of Thermal Behavior and Development of Thermal Design Guidelines for Integrated Power Electronics Modules
… need for the introduction of high reliability power electronics in converting the raw form of electricity into efficient electricity for these applications is uprising. One of the most common failures in power electronics is temperature related failure such as overheating. To address the issue …
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A low cost tellurometer
… a low-cost microwave source, low-power technology and a very simple mechanical arrangement has resulted in a cheap simple instrument. Built-in test features of the software allow sophisticated maintenance with a minimum of test equipment.
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Development and trialling of a low-power wearable fall detector
This thesis presents three generations of low-power fall detectors based on triaxial accelerometry and barometric pressure signals. The proposed fall detectors take the form of a pendant attached to a neck lanyard. Each generation incorporates multiple power-conserving technologies to achieve a …
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Heat transfer coefficients of particulate in tubular heat exchangers
… the use of particulates in concentrating solar power technology. These solid particles are heated by concentrated sunlight to very high temperatures at which they are a suitable heat source for various thermal power and thermochemical cycles. Furthermore, one of the advantages of this concept is …
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Parabolic trough solar collectors : design for increasing efficiency
… a low cost implementation of concentrated solar power technology that focuses incident sunlight onto a tube filled with a heat transfer fluid. The efficiency and cost of the parabolic trough collector designs is influenced by structural stiffness, choice of materials, assembly tolerances, mirror …
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Diverse Effects of Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields on Mammalian Cells
… like a Faraday cage. With advances in pulsed power technology sub-microsecond pulses are now possible. This timescale is shorter than the charging time of the plasma membrane and therefore, during an applied field of sufficiently short duration and higher potential, charges are unable to …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de una planta generadora de electricidad de 120 MW por medio de concentradores solares cilíndricos parabólicos
… use of an alternative CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) technology, which uses the concentrated heat of the sun to generate steam and whirl a turbine, and to deposit some of this heat in a thermal storage, as a means to generate more electricity for more hours and in a consistent way. The south …
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Modelling and Analysis of Close Contact Ultrasonic Power Transfer Systems with Metal Barriers
Traditional methods of powering electrical loads across sealed metallic containers require physical penetration of the metallic body to feed an electrical cable through it, thus reducing the structural integrity of the container. Consequently, wireless power transfer technologies are employed to …
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Freedom devices: four essays on technology, culture, and citizenship
This study is made up of four essays on technology, culture, and citizenship. While there are overlapping themes and concerns amongst all the chapters, each chapter also stands on its own. Taken together, they explore the complicated and under-examined connections amongst these three concepts. …
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