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...analyze and contrast the framing goals and limitations that must be considered when energy master planning is conducted for communities in six different countries. The analyses will be based on findings from countries participating in the International Energy Agency’s “Energy in Buildings and Communities...

This paper deals with process simulation and techno-economic assessment on a bioenergy system for sustainable electricity production from low-grade biomass resources such as forest and agricultural residues, which is suitable for rural areas in developing regions susceptible to intermittent electricity...

...heating and add to the thermal load, which must be removed by the cooling system. These losses must be evaluated in the design of the generator to ensure a sufficient overall efficiency. A major loss component is the hysteresis losses in the superconductor itself. In the high DC - low AC current and magnetic...

Climate change and the needed reductions in the use of fossil fuels call for the development of renewable energy sources. However, renewable energy production, such as hydropower (both small- and large-scale) and wind power have adverse impacts on the local environment by causing reductions in biodiversity...

Anticipating tighter harbour emissions controls and the development of Renewable Energy Sources (RES), PLUG, acronym for Power Generation during Loading and Unloading, is a joint research and development effort supported by the European Commission to develop an innovative, high capacity (up to 25 MW)...

...studies, both experimental and computational, have been performed previously, but an often challenging issue has been the characterization of the fluids. As numerous authors have noted, it is very difficult to have a perfectly clean water-oil system even for very pure model oils, and the presence of trace...

...adds phase shift modulation with limited phase shift angle to the PDM when oscillations are excited. Effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method are validated by simulations and experimental results from a small-scale laboratory prototype....

Coupling between heat and mass transfer occurs across interfaces and in vapor and liquid films. In this work, we present the first rigorous investigation of the role of these physical phenomena in the mathematical modeling of distillation columns for a nitrogen–oxygen mixture. Coupling phenomena in...

...source of renewable energy, and provides several benefits, e.g., water storage and flexibility; on the other hand, it may cause significant impacts on the environment. Hence sustainable hydropower needs to achieve a balance between electricity generation, impacts on ecosystems and benefits on society, supporting...

...of the aquaculture industry and increasingly limited fish farming sites at close to shore areas both in Norway and worldwide, there is a need to develop fish farms suitable for aquaculture production in typical offshore environments. For this purpose, SALMAR has developed and deployed the Ocean Farm 1...

System dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches have a potential as tools to evaluate the impact of policy related decision making in food value chains. The context is that a food value chain involves flows of multiple products, financial flows and decision making among the food value...