Feasibility studies of a converter-free grid-connected offshore hydrostatic wind turbine

Owing to the increasing penetration of renewable power generation, the modern power system faces great challenges in frequency regulations and reduced system inertia. Hence, renewable energy is expected to take over part of the frequency regulation responsibilities from the gas or hydro plants and contribute to the system inertia. In this article, we investigate the feasibility of frequency regulation by the offshore hydrostatic wind turbine (HWT). The simulation model is transformed from NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) 5-MW gearbox-equipped wind turbine model within FAST (fatigue, aerodynamics, structures, and turbulence) code. With proposed coordinated control scheme and the hydrostatic transmission configuration of the HWT, the `continuously variable gearbox ratio' in turbulent wind conditions can be realised to maintain the constant generator speed, so that the HWT can be connected to the grid without power converters in-between. To test the performances of the control scheme, the HWT is connected to a 5-bus grid model and operates with different frequency events. The simulation results indicate that the proposed control scheme is a promising solution for offshore HWT to participated in frequency response in the modern power system

Exclusive Jet Measurement in Special LHC Runs - Feasibility Studies

The feasibility studies of the central exclusive jet production at the LHC using the proton tagging technique are presented. Three classes of data taking scenarios are considered: double tag at high pile-up, single tag at low pile-up and double tag at low pile-up. Analyses were performed at the c.m. energy of 14 TeV for the ATLAS experiment, but are also valid for the CMS/TOTEM detectors.Comment: Presented at XXII Cracow Epiphany Conferenc

Feasibility Studies of the Diffractive Bremsstrahlung Measurement at the LHC

Feasibility studies of an observation of the exclusive diffractive bremsstrahlung in proton-proton scattering at the LHC are reported. A simplified approach to the photon and the scattered proton energy reconstruction is used. The background influence is discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure

New column configurations for pressure swing batch distillation I. Feasibility Studies

The feasibility of the pressure swing distillation in different batch column configurations is investigated. The method is based on the assumption of maximal separation. Besides studying the well known batch configurations (rectifier, stripper, middle vessel column) we also suggest two novel configurations such as double column batch rectifier and double column batch stripper. We also study the alternate application of a rectifier and a stripper