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Energies, Volume 4, Issue 7

July 2011 - 7 articles

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Articles (7)

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
10,403 Views
10 Pages

Combustion of Corn Stover Bales in a Small 146-kW Boiler

  • René Morissette,
  • Philippe Savoie and
  • Joey Villeneuve

22 July 2011

Spring harvested corn stover was used for direct combustion in a 146 kW dual chamber boiler designed for wood logs. Stover had a very low moisture content (6.83 ± 0.17%), a gross calorific value (GCV) of 18.57 MJ/kg of dry matter (±0.32 MJ/kg DM) and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
7,706 Views
15 Pages

21 July 2011

This paper presents an Improved Bagging Algorithm (IBA) to recognize ultra-high-frequency (UHF) signals of partial discharges (PDs). This approach establishes the sample information entropy for each sample and the re-sampling process of the tradition...

  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
16,918 Views
29 Pages

18 July 2011

Several researchers have proposed that mobility control mechanisms can positively contribute to oil recovery in the case of emulsions generated in Enhanced-Oil Recovery (EOR) operations. Chemical EOR techniques that use alkaline components or/and sur...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,538 Views
7 Pages

Time to Substitute Wood Bioenergy for Nuclear Power in Japan

  • Nophea Sasaki,
  • Toshiaki Owari and
  • Francis E. Putz

6 July 2011

Damage to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant by the recent earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan should stimulate consideration of alternative sources of energy. In particular, if managed appropriately, the 25.1 million ha of Japanese forests...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,275 Views
11 Pages

4 July 2011

The new energy revolution, of which the primary energy will be based on renewable energy sources and the terminal energy will be based on electric power, will have a revolutionary impact on the future power grids. In order to develop the correspondin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
9,990 Views
15 Pages

4 July 2011

Optimal utilization of available water resources has become more urgent due to the rapid growth of the economy and population. The joint operation of the Three Gorges cascade and Qingjiang cascade reservoirs in China was studied in this paper. Choosi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,861 Views
15 Pages

Towards an Analysis of Daylighting Simulation Software

  • Ignacio Acosta,
  • Jaime Navarro and
  • Juan J. Sendra

29 June 2011

The aim of this article was to assess some of the main lighting software programs habitually used in architecture, subjecting them to a series of trials and analyzing the light distribution obtained in situations with different orientations, dates an...

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