One key directive to realize the global transition towards net-zero emission goals is to integrate more renewable energy resources into the generation mix. Due to higher and more consistent wind speeds, offshore wind farms (OWFs) have the potential t...
This paper proposes a health-aware control approach for drinking water transport networks. This approach is based on an economic model predictive control (MPC) that considers an additional goal with the aim of extending the components and system reli...
The increasing penetration of wind power—driven by the expansion of offshore projects and the repowering of existing onshore installations—poses novel challenges for power system operators. While wind energy is currently integrated withou...
This paper presents an economic reliability-aware model predictive control (MPC) for the management of drinking water transport networks (DWNs). The proposed controller includes a new goal to increase the system and components reliability based on a...
Remote communities in Canada face high electricity costs, energy insecurity, and significant greenhouse gas emissions due to heavy dependence on diesel generation. This study proposes and evaluates an AC-coupled hybrid distribution microgrid for remo...
Integrated Energy Transmission Systems (IETSs) are essential to bridge the geographical gap between where energy is produced and where it is needed, transporting power from resource-rich regions to distant load centers. The fundamental challenge is t...
As the core platform supporting diverse user-side loads, the distribution network plays a critical role in the development of new power systems. To address the significant variations in terminal users’ power supply reliability requirements, thi...
An interruption to residential natural gas (NG) may cause considerable economic damage of the entire country. Thus, the South Korean government requires information about the economic value of improving residential NG supply reliability for planning...
This paper presents reliability, water demand and economic analysis of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems for eight Australian capital cities (Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney). A Python-based tool is develope...
The analysis of energy configuration in the planning of data-center-park-integrated energy systems (DCP-IESs) has become an enormous challenge, owing to multi-energy complementarity, energy cascade use, and energy security. In this study, a configura...
Conducting technical and economic evaluations is important for mining investment and mining operation decision-making. Traditional economic evaluation methods rarely address the issue of evaluation reliability and usually require complex calculations...
Economic dispatch (ED) problems, especially in multi-area power networks, have been challenging concerns for power system operators for several decades. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for solving the multiobjective multi-area dynamic ED...
Sustainable efficient energy is the key factor of any sustainable manufacturing system. This study addresses a multi-item sustainable economic energy efficient reliable manufacturing quantity (MSEEERMQ) model. The manufacturing system produces defect...
Heavy-duty trucking is central to the U.S. economy, and improving its long-term sustainability requires cost-effective, energy-efficient, and reliable operations. Emerging technologies—advanced powertrains, batteries, and alternative fuels&mdas...
The energy requirements for desalination have made it an expensive process, however, it is still a viable and cost-effective means of water purification amidst freshwater scarcity. The management and disposal of brine is an external and extra desalin...
The integration of renewable resources with distribution networks (DNs) is an effective way to reduce carbon emissions in energy systems. In this paper, an economic and low-carbon-oriented optimal planning solution for the integration of photovoltaic...
For a country to be able to sustain a policy of increasing the use of renewable energy sources to supply electricity, it must be able to continue to provide a reliable electricity supply service to its customers. Typically, electricity reliability is...
Photovoltaic (PV) system reliability and durability investigations are essential for industrial maturity and economic success. Recently, PV systems received much interest in Iraq due to many reasons—for instance, power shortage, global warming...
Techno-economic assessments (TEA) of biodiesel production may comply with various economic and technical uncertainties during the lifespan of the project, resulting in the variation of many parameters associated with biodiesel production, including p...
Risk analysis in control problems is a critical but often overlooked issue in this research area. The main goal of this analysis is to assess the reliability of designed controllers and their impact on applied systems. The chaotic behavior of fractio...
Lebanon is grappling with a multifaceted transportation crisis driven by the high population density, limited public transit infrastructure, and overwhelming dependence on private vehicles. These longstanding issues have been exacerbated by compoundi...
Current scheduling strategies for energy storage batteries in agricultural parks generally overlook the issue of battery lifespan degradation, which significantly undermines the system’s economic efficiency and long-term reliability. To address...
The unreliable electricity supply is a major constraint on industrial production in Myanmar, especially for garment factories, which require a reliable power supply to maintain production. Frequent outages disrupt production schedules, increase opera...
In our research, we focus on the reliability of the interconnected electricity supply system of three countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)—Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. We apply a mathematical model to evaluate the reliability...
High-performance thermal insulators allow a dramatic reduction in the thickness of coatings, thanks to their low thermal conductivity. This study provides an overview about thermal insulation materials, with regards to heat reflective insulators in p...
This study presents a methodology for optimizing repair intervals of mining equipment by integrating economic efficiency and reliability criteria. A review of existing maintenance strategies revealed their limitations, and a mathematical model was de...
Predictive maintenance (PdM) improves the reliability of rotating machinery on oil and gas platforms; however, few studies translate multi-sensor classification into validated reliability and economic outcomes under real industrial deployment. This s...
This paper presents a novel decision-making framework for the life cycle management of aircraft components, integrating advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, and predictive maintenance strategies. The proposed model addresses the challeng...
This paper presents a health-aware economic Model Predictive Control (EMPC) approach for the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) of generalized flow-based networks. The proposed approach consists of the integration of the network reliability mode...
A comprehensive review of uncertainties in power systems, covering modeling, impact, and mitigation, is essential to understand and manage the challenges faced by the electric grid. Uncertainties in power systems can arise from various sources and ca...
Landslide risk assessment can quantify the potential damage caused by landslides to disaster-bearing bodies, which can help to reduce casualties and economic losses. It is not only a tool for disaster prevention and mitigation, but also a key step to...
In electrical power engineering, elements such as reliability analysis, modeling, and optimization for complex systems are of the utmost importance. Although there exist myriad studies regarding reliability optimization with conventional methods, res...
After the long-term operation of reservoir facilities, they will become nonoperational due to the material deterioration and the performance degradation. One of crucial decisions is to determine the maintenance or replacement of the facilities in a c...
This paper proposes a new framework for multi-area economic dispatch (MAED) in which the cost associated with the reliability consideration is taken into account together with the common operational and emission costs using expected energy not suppli...
Renewable energy solutions are appropriate for on-grid and off-grid applications, acting as a supporter for the utility network or rural locations without the need to develop or extend costly and difficult grid infrastructure. As a result, hybrid ren...
Despite numerous studies on residential rainwater tank, studies on commercial rainwater tank are scarce. Corporate authorities pay little heed on this sustainable feature. With the aim of encouraging corporate authorities, this study presents the fea...
This paper explores the use of deep reinforcement learning in solving the multi-agent aircraft traffic planning (individual paths) and collision avoidance problem for a multiple UAS, such as that for a cargo drone network. Specifically, the Deep Q-Ne...
This paper proposes a microgrid optimal scheduling strategy based on the reactive power compensation of electric vehicles to address the issue of interactive fluctuation of voltage and power resulting from a high proportion of new energy integration...
The present work aims at presenting an approach on implementing appropriate mitigation measures for the upgrade of rubble mound breakwaters protecting harbors and/or marinas against increasing future marine hazards and related escalating exposure to...
The 4-leg inverter can adjust the load current or output voltage even under unbalanced load conditions, but it is known that the additional switch arm to the 3-leg inverter can increase the overall cost and the failure rate. This paper aims to analyz...
This paper explores the potential economic benefits of water banking in aquifers to meet drought and emergency supplies for cities where the population is growing and changing climate has reduced the availability of water. A simplified case study bas...
This paper proposes an economical scheme to provide redundancy for protection in digital power sub-transmission and distribution substations. The scheme is based on Ethernet communication networks and uses the International Electrotechnical Commissio...
The smart grid concept is based on the full integration of different types of energy sources and intelligent devices. Due to the short- and long-term volatility of these sources, new flexibility measures are necessary to ensure the smart grid operate...
Hybrid renewable energy systems (HRESs) have emerged as a promising solution for improving the sustainability and energy independence of critical infrastructure with continuous electricity demand. This study presents a techno-economic optimization fr...
This paper describes an effective operating strategy for electric vehicles (EVs) in a hybrid facility that leverages renewable energy sources. The method is to enhance the profit of the wind–thermal–EV hybrid plant while maintaining the g...
Studies have shown that the role of energy storage systems in human life is increasing day by day. Therefore, this research aims to study the latest progress and technologies used to produce energy storage systems. It also discusses and compares the...
The continuous distribution ability of electricity is defined as the effectiveness of the computation of reliability indices. Therefore, we conducted a reliability assessment and evaluated the performance of the distribution system in the Freeport Ar...
Grid unreliability can compromise electricity supply in developing regions, yet comparative evidence on residential-district hybrid systems under consistent outage assumptions remains limited. This study compares four grid-connected architectures for...
The basic requirements for the design of a switchgear for main 35–220 kV step-down substations are reliability and efficiency. Switchgear circuits are chosen depending on the number of supply and transit lines and transformers, the substation&r...
Continuous industrial material-handling systems are operationally and energy-intensive technological structures in which downtime affecting one equipment group can reduce the availability of the entire production chain. This study develops a probabil...
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