Electric vehicles (EVs) are a promising option to reduce air pollution and shipping costs, especially in urban areas. To provide scientific guidance for the growing number of logistics companies using EVs, we investigated an electric-vehicle-routing...
This study presents a single-inductor multi-output dual-path hybrid buck converter by applying a load-dependent sequencing technique to obtain output voltages (VOUTs) over a wide range. When the conventional hybrid dual-path topology is applied to mu...
This paper develops a real-time rolling-horizon optimization framework based on semidefinite programming (SDP) for vehicle-to-grid (V2G)-enabled electric vehicle (EV) fleets in distribution networks. The model coordinates time-varying EV availability...
To meet the fast-response and wide load-current requirements of X-ray detector readout chips, a Low-Dropout Regulator (LDO) based on an improved Level-Shifted Flipped Voltage Follower (LS FVF) is proposed in a 130 nm CMOS process. A fast Flipped Volt...
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation is a critical component of the energy industry. It enables the efficient and large-scale movement of natural gas across vast distances by converting it into a liquid form, thereby addressing global demand an...
Low seawater temperatures constrain the operation of open rack vaporizers (ORVs) and intermediate fluid vaporizers (IFVs), while also increasing pumping-related emissions at LNG terminals. This study establishes a carbon-oriented framework for an exp...
In this study, the effects of log loading on the lateral overturning of an unmanned, remote-controlled forestry crawler tractor were analyzed through simulation-based analysis. A 3D model was constructed and validated in terms of actual dimensions, s...
Battery-operated systems are always concerned about the proper management and sizing of a battery. A Traditional Battery Management System (BMS) only includes battery-aware task scheduling based on the discharge characteristics of a whole battery pac...
The work shows a new approach to improving the performance of lithium power sources by using polypeptides as an active component of the cathode composition. Specifically, the experimental results of testing prototypes of lithium current sources with...
Vanadium redox flow batteries are promising energy storage devices and are already ahead of lead–acid batteries in terms of installed capacity in energy systems due to their long service life and possibility of recycling. One of the crucial tas...
The process of estimating sediment load has been a daunting issue in hydraulics and the water resource field. Several methods exist for predicting the sediment load in a catchment or river, but the majority of these methods are empirical and depend o...
As the number of electric vehicles (EVs) significantly increases, the excessive charging demand of parked EVs in the charging station may incur an instability problem to the electricity network during peak hours. For the charging station to take a mi...
Rockfill dams are hydraulic structures of major importance. They can be exposed to extreme flood events, in turn leading to overtopping. These phenomena erode and affect structural and geotechnical integrity, which in turn can cause dam breach. Ripra...
This paper proposes a hybrid converter to supply power from solar power source to load. Since power is generated by solar power, which depends on the intensity of solar power, the power generated by the solar power does not keep at a constant power....
This article describes the analyses of modeling the wear process of lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt cells operating cyclically under constant load conditions. The main aging processes taking place in cells and the methodology of the modeling are disc...
Surface water quality strongly depends on anthropogenic activity. Among the main anthropogenic sources of this activity are the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents. The discharged loads of nutrients and suspended solids could provoke serious...
Atmospheric pressure cold plasmas have recently been the subject of intense research and applications for solving problems in the fields of energy, environmental engineering, and biomedicine. Non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma sources, with diel...
In the last few years, trend identification has become an important issue in hydrological time-series analyses; it is also a difficult task, due to the variety of models and the impact of climate change on the river flow regime. Due to the vital impo...
The water quality of lakes is highly dependent on external phosphorus (P) loading. The vast external loadings from sewage and other wastewater discharge that European lakes have historically received have been dramatically reduced today by improved w...
The rotating vortex rope, which can be decomposed in the rotating and the plunging modes, is the origin of pressure fluctuations in the draft tube cone when hydraulic turbines operate at part load, compromising the structural integrity and limiting t...
For conventional power plants, the integration of thermal energy storage opens up a promising opportunity to meet future technical requirements in terms of flexibility while at the same time improving cost-effectiveness. In the FLEXI- TES joint proje...
Water scarcity compels wastewater reuse, but lax discharge standards generate a regulatory mirage, misleading the public about safety. Here, “regulatory mirage” refers to situations where formal compliance with discharge standards creates...
Although plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) are expected to reduce both consumption of petroleum and emission of CO2 in comparison with ordinary hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), these advantages strongly depend on the reliability of batteries in...
Dew computing aims to minimize the dependency on remote clouds by exploiting nearby nodes for solving non-trivial computational tasks, e.g., AI inferences. Nowadays, smartphones are good candidates for computing nodes; hence, smartphone clusters have...
Anthropogenic increases in the salinity of surface waters are referred to as secondary salinization. In surface waters, salinity levels can vary significantly due to various natural and anthropogenic influences. This article presents multi-decadal ob...
Inductive pulsed power remains attractive for demanding electromagnetic acceleration systems because of its high-current capability and rapid discharge capability. Within this class, XRAM is especially appealing because it combines series charging wi...
Recent advances in battery technologies have reduced the financial burden of using the energy storage system (ESS) for customers. Peak cut, one of the benefits of using ESS, can be achieved through proper charging/discharging scheduling of ESS. Howev...
Achievements of good chemical and ecological status of groundwater (GW) and surface water (SW) bodies are currently challenged mainly due to poor identification and quantification of pollution sources. A high spatio-temporal hydrological and water qu...
Lithium-ion batteries are one of the most popular and efficient energy storage devices. In this paper, the characteristics of high-capacity lithium-iron-phosphate batteries during the impulse and long-term operation modes of batteries with different...
Depth–discharge rating is required at gauged and ungauged locations for hydrologic modeling of alluvial systems to evaluate streamflow and manage regional water resources. Spanning low to high-flow conditions, manual field measurements are used...
Recently, the integration of optimal battery dispatch and demand response has received much attention in improving DC microgrid operation under uncertainties in the grid-connect condition and distributed generations. However, the majority of prior st...
The objective of this research is to improve water treatment use of the electric spark method. Studies on the treatment of multicomponent galvanic effluent by the electric spark method using metal loading (Fe, Al) and low-voltage (up to 1000 V) equip...
Polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) deposited on porous composite polylactic acid/poly(ε-caprolactone) (PDLA/PEC) substrates were studied. The substrates were previously charged in a corona discharge. Time dependences of the normalized surface...
In this paper, we present results concerning the design, the realization and the characterization of a photovoltaic system (PV), equipped with a digital controls: Power Point Tracking (MPPT), charge/discharge lead acid batteries, sun tracker and supe...
Water quality in urban streams is highly influenced by emissions from WWTP and from sewer systems particularly by overflows from combined systems. During storm events, this causes random fluctuations in discharge and pollutant concentrations over a w...
Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) remain a significant factor in hospitals, with implant surfaces often becoming contaminated by highly resistant strains of bacteria. Recent studies have shown that electrical plasma discharges can reduce bacterial...
The growing installation of intermittent renewable energy sources is forcing hydraulic turbines to work more frequently at speed no load when dangerous vaneless space vortex structures and stochastic flow phenomena can occur. An experimental campaign...
Battery discharging is governed by a fundamental trade-off between output power and energy conversion efficiency due to internal dissipation. In this paper, we demonstrate that such a trade-off universally yields a parabolic envelope
Electrical energy consumers, such as AC motors, can be supplied by a dual power supply consisting of a DC grid and a supercapacitor (SC) energy storage system. The efficiency of energy flow can vary depending on where the energy storage system is con...
Renewable energy generation and energy storage systems are considered key technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Energy system planning and operation requires more accurate forecasts of intermittent renewable energy resources that consid...
In this paper, a heating device is implemented by considering two large factors in a 100 cmm RTO design. First, when the combustion chamber is used for a long time with a high temperature of 750–1100 °C depending on the high concentration V...
Information on riverine phosphorus (P) dynamics during typhoon storm events remains scarce in subtropical regions. Thus, this study investigates the spatial and temporal dynamics of riverine phosphorus in a headwater catchment during three typhoon ev...
Microgrid (MG) is a combination of distributed generators (DGs), energy storage systems (ESSs), and loads connected to distribution network that can either be in islanded mode or grid-tied mode. Similarly, a multi-microgrid (MMG) system is a number o...
The charging of batteries of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles at home at standard outlets has an impact on the distribution grid which may require serious investments in grid expansion. The coordination of the charging gives an improvement of the gri...
Lake surface temperature (LST) and NDTI-based optical turbidity are important indicators of water quality and ecosystem dynamics in northern lakes, where climate warming and river discharge strongly influence thermal structure and sediment transport....
Sediment balance is essential for understanding changes in river morphology and ecosystems and related services depending on them. However, the currently used methods to quantify riverine sediment processes are not adequate enough. We have examined t...
The introduction of electric vehicles into the transportation sector helps reduce global warming and carbon emissions. The interaction between electric vehicles and the power grid has spurred the emergence of a smart grid technology, denoted as vehic...
Probabilistic risk methods are becoming increasingly accepted as a means of carrying out risk-informed decision making regarding the design and operation policy of structures such as dams. Probabilistic risk calculations require the quantification of...
Nonstationarity of univariate flood series has been widely studied, while nonstationarity of some multivariate flood series, such as discharge, water stage, and suspended sediment concentrations, has been studied rarely. This paper presents a procedu...
The rapid rise in energy demand, urban electrification, and the increasing prevalence of Electric Vehicles (EV) have intensified the need for reliable and decentralized energy management solutions. This study proposes an AI-driven centralized control...
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