A novel heating technology is presented to analyze the influence of inlet air heating on gas turbine efficiency under partial load. This technology uses the waste heat of a low-temperature heat sources, which includes but is not limited to the exhaus...
Hydropower, as an important part of clean energy, can effectively optimize the energy structure. However, units frequently operate under partial-load conditions due to environmental and grid demands, where hydraulic excitations threaten stability. Th...
A thin-walled steel cylindrical shell is a common engineering structure that has an efficient load-carrying capacity. This structure is more easily subjected to partial axial compression loads in application, and buckling is the main failure mode. Ho...
The growing need to enhance observability in distribution networks has driven the development of load pseudomeasurement generation methods, particularly under partial smart meter (SM) penetration. This paper proposes a load pseudomeasurement framewor...
The parallel expander ORC system is one of the solutions for providing an additional power output by improving the partial-load performance of an ORC. The parallel expander system corresponds to partial-load conditions by switching between various co...
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) estimates component-level energy use from aggregate measurements, but low-frequency data limit appliance signatures and make overlapping or weakly observed loads difficult to separate. This paper proposes a relati...
This study investigates and compares various multivariate regression methods, including principal component regression (PCR) and partial least squares regression (PLSR), for flight load analysis and demonstrates their high learning efficiency and str...
The aim of this study was to investigate the load to fracture and fracture pattern of prosthetic frameworks for tooth-supported fixed partial dentures (FPDs) fabricated with different subtractive computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing...
In some processes, latent heat thermal energy storage (TES) systems might work under partial load operating conditions (the available thermal energy source is discontinuous or insufficient to completely charge the phase change material (PCM)). Theref...
The characteristics of photovoltaic (PV) are directly affected by partial shading (PS) conditions due to the non-uniform irradiance. The PV system can be compromised based on the shading pattern as well as the shading area. Thus, the need for a solut...
Partial discharge (PD) measurement and its pattern recognition are vital to fault diagnosis of transformers, especially to those traction substation transformers undergoing repetitive traction load shocks. This paper presents the primary factors indu...
This study presents a comprehensive thermo-energetic and exergetic assessment of a 250 MW steam boiler in a Cuban thermal power plant, operating under partial load conditions (plant: 62–66%; boiler: 58–61%). An integrated diagnostic metho...
With the widespread use of high-speed motorized spindles in precision machining, conventional contact loading methods are no longer adequate for stiffness loading tests under high-speed operating conditions. Non-contact loading technology based on a...
Background: Modern dentistry strives to achieve increasingly less invasive procedures as the ultimate therapeutic goal. The careful selection of suitable candidates for immediate dental implants can offer an opportunity to reduce treatment time, lowe...
In this paper, the vibration analysis of a partially constrained layer damping plate subjected to moving loads is investigated. In addition, the first four order damping loss factor of the system is optimized with the location of partially constraine...
Reinforced concrete (RC) beams containing a longitudinal cavity have become an innovative development and advantage for economic purposes of light-weight members without largely affecting their resistance against the applied loads. This type of openi...
This article deals with a static and quasi-static load using the maximum power of a hydraulic pump. Additionally, quasi-static coefficients for the partially embedded rock bolts were determined. The laboratory tests included 2.2 m long bolts, which w...
Background: The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the survival rates of immediately loaded implants after at least five years. Besides implant failure, the amount of marginal bone loss around implants and the complication type were assess...
Objectives: Zirconia (Y-TZP) ceramics are considered as posterior fixed partial denture (FPD) materials; however, their applications are limited due to chipping. The use of monolithic lithium disilicate (LiDi) glass ceramics in posterior FPDs can be...
In this paper, the flexural strength and buckling of the partially concrete-filled steel tubes (PCFST) under laterally repeated loads was investigated through three-point bending test configuration. Three-dimensional Finite Element (FE) models of the...
Short-term load forecasting is very important for power systems. The load is related to many factors which compose tensors. However, tensors cannot be input directly into most traditional forecasting models. This paper proposes a tensor partial least...
A high-load partial nitrification reactor (HLPNR) was operated to treat high-ammonia wastewater by varying the hydraulic retention time (HRT). The associated shifts in the microbial community were analyzed using PCR-DGGE and high-throughput sequencin...
Evaluating the efficiency of hydraulic turbines in existing hydroelectric power plants is often challenging due to the absence of complete manufacturer curves, a lack of reliable historical data, or nonexistent formal efficiency testing. This is espe...
The increasing share of renewable energy sources in power grids demands greater load flexibility from thermal power plants. Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) combustion systems, while offering fuel flexibility and high thermal inertia, face challenges...
Ethanol, a cleaner fuel alternative in diesel engines, is used in certain proportions to modify engine performance and improve emissions in diesel engines. In this study, a series of experiments were conducted to determine the effect of different eth...
Bone substitutes are ideally biocompatible, osteoconductive, degradable and defect-specific and provide mechanical stability. Magnesium phosphate cements (MPCs) offer high initial stability and faster degradation compared to the well-researched calci...
Load power forecast is one of most important tasks in power systems operation and maintenance. Enhancing its accuracy can be helpful to power systems scheduling. This paper presents how to use partial real-time temperature information in forecasting...
The application of waste tire rubber as aggregates in concrete can help to reduce carbon emissions and achieve green gross domestic product (GDP). However, civil engineers still have concerns about using rubberized concrete in structural members. For...
Various researches have been performed to find an effective confining method using FRP sheet in order to improve the structural capacity of reinforced concrete column. However, most of these researches were undertaken for the columns subjected to con...
29 December 2025
There is a significant demand for flexibility in steam turbines, including rapid cold starts and load changes, as well as operation at low partial loads. Both industrial plants and systems for electricity and heat generation are impacted. These new o...
This paper presents the effort to reduce friction and wear of gear washers under low-speed and heavy-load conditions by designing the arrangement of surface textures. The influence of distributional parameters of textures on load-bearing capacity and...
Many masonry buildings exist worldwide. Safety assessments are crucial for renovation and upgrading. On-site testing reveals material properties and historic loads, enabling updates to structural resistance models for more accurate evaluations. (1) T...
This research paper aimed to validate two methods for measuring loads during walking with instrumented crutches: one method to estimate partial weight-bearing on the lower limbs and another to estimate shoulder joint reactions. Currently, gait labora...
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology is of high interest for stationary decentralized generation of electricity and heat in combined heat and power systems (CHP) for the residential sector. Application scenarios for SOFC systems in an electricity-...
To address the issues of poor fire and corrosion resistance in traditional steel structure reinforcement methods, the construction constraints of cast-in-place partially encased steel–concrete composite beams (PEC beams), and their difficulty i...
5 June 2026
Reversible pump turbines (RPTs) play a key role in pumped hydro energy storage systems, where increasing grid flexibility requires frequent operation under off-design conditions. In turbine mode, deep partial load and no-load operation are often asso...
The need to reduce carbon emissions has recently become prevalent in light of concerns related to climate change. Since the cement industry causes approximately 8% of global CO2 emissions, it might be an urgent necessity to include cement replacement...
The load resistance factor according to the target reliability level was proposed using 16 vertical breakwaters constructed along the coast of Korea. Limit state functions for sliding and overturning limit states were defined. Reliability analysis wa...
Syngas is a valuable entity for downstream liquid fuel production and chemical industries. The efficient production of syngas via catalytic partial oxidation of methane (CPOM) is an important process. In this study, partial oxidation of methane (POM)...
Rehabilitation with dental implants is not always possible due to the lack of bone quality or quantity, in many cases due to bone atrophy or the morbidity of regenerative treatments. We find ourselves in situations of performing dental prostheses wit...
In this paper, a seasonal performance analysis of a hybrid ejector cooling system is carried-out, by considering a multi-ejector pack as expansion device. A 20 kW ejector-based chiller was sized to obtain the optimal tradeoff between performance and...
Under the circumstances of rapid expansion of diverse forms of volatile and intermittent renewable energy sources, hydropower stations have become increasingly indispensable for improving the quality of energy conversion processes. As a consequence,...
The purpose of this study is to propose a practical formula for estimating the maximum load bearing capacity of partially concrete-filled steel tubes (PCFST) without using complicated numerical analysis and estimation procedures. This study focused o...
According to modern structural codes, a design is considered to be adequate if the limit states are not exceeded. For the ultimate limit state, the design value of action effect Ed is required to be less or equal than the design value of ultimate res...
Trigeneration plants can use different types of chillers in the same plant, typically single effect and double effect absorption chillers, vapour compression chillers and also cooling storage systems. The highly variable cooling demand of the buildin...
Fuel load is the key factor driving fire ignition, spread and intensity. The current literature reports the light detection and ranging (LiDAR), optical and airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data for fuel load estimation, but the optical and SA...
The output power and terminal voltage of the fixed speed induction generator fluctuate in the partial load region where the wind speed is below the rated vale, resulting in fluctuations in the grid frequency and voltage. In this paper, a novel pitch...
Healthcare buildings exhibit a different electrical load predictability depending on their size and nature. Large hospitals behave similarly to small cities, whereas primary care centers are expected to have different consumption dynamics. In this wo...
Specimen size and loading boundary conditions affect the uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) measured for cemented backfill and hinder direct comparison among test configurations. Cubic cemented phosphate tailings backfill specimens (40–200 mm)...
A structure may be exposed to a range of unexpected loads throughout its full life cycle. Partially precast concrete (PC) beams refer to the process of manufacturing concrete beams in which one part of the component is pre−fabricated in a facto...
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