AquaStress. D5.3-5 et D5.4-5 Unified delivrable. Overview on Implemented Virtual and Real Tests - Contribution to Final Test & Evaluation Report (M44)

This deliverable outlines the different virtual and real tests which have been carried out during the AquaStress project. It first classifies the different types of water stress mitigation options that have been tested, gives some idea of their purpose, and stresses the types of water uses on which they focus. It shows next the way these options have been tested, in terms of field implementation, stakeholder involvement, as well as risk of test damage. It finally gives an idea of which evaluation criteria were used to evaluate mitigation options' relevance in the different test sites. This report relies on a questionnaire that has been filled in by the respective project partners who were responsible for option testing and evaluation

Integrated tool for the acoustic assessment and monitoring of marine activities and operations

Peer ReviewedPostprint (author’s final draft

Power quality and electromagnetic compatibility: special report, session 2

The scope of Session 2 (S2) has been defined as follows by the Session Advisory Group and the Technical Committee: Power Quality (PQ), with the more general concept of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and with some related safety problems in electricity distribution systems. Special focus is put on voltage continuity (supply reliability, problem of outages) and voltage quality (voltage level, flicker, unbalance, harmonics). This session will also look at electromagnetic compatibility (mains frequency to 150 kHz), electromagnetic interferences and electric and magnetic fields issues. Also addressed in this session are electrical safety and immunity concerns (lightning issues, step, touch and transferred voltages). The aim of this special report is to present a synthesis of the present concerns in PQ&EMC, based on all selected papers of session 2 and related papers from other sessions, (152 papers in total). The report is divided in the following 4 blocks: Block 1: Electric and Magnetic Fields, EMC, Earthing systems Block 2: Harmonics Block 3: Voltage Variation Block 4: Power Quality Monitoring Two Round Tables will be organised: - Power quality and EMC in the Future Grid (CIGRE/CIRED WG C4.24, RT 13) - Reliability Benchmarking - why we should do it? What should be done in future? (RT 15

Study of alternative geometries for fluidic oscillators by means of computational fluid mechanics

Se estudiará el fllujo en el interior de osciladores fluídicos mediante el uso de un código comercial de Mecánica de Fluidos Computacional.Se estudiarán diferentes diseños y se compararán sus rendimientos.1. Documentación y estudio del estado del arte. 2. Aprendizaje de los conceptos básicos de la Mecánica de Fluidos Computacional. 3. Aprendizaje de los programas ICEM CFD y ANSYS-FLUENT. 4. Selección de las geometrías y parámetros a estudiar.5. Mallado de dichas geometrías mediante ICEM CFD. 5. Simulación mediante ANSYS-FLUENT. 7. Extracción y análisis de resultados. 8. Conclusiones

Distributed generation on rural electricity networks - a lines company perspective : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Energy Management at Massey University

CD held with Reference copyA number of electricity assets used in rural New Zealand yield a very low return on investment. According to the provisions of the Electricity Act 1992, after 01 April 2013, lines companies may terminate supply to any customer to whom they cannot provide electricity lines services profitably. This research was undertaken to assist the policy makers, lines companies, rural investors on the viability of distributed generation in a rural setting from the point of view of the lines company and the investor as well as to provide recommendations to the problem areas. A dynamic distributed generation model was developed to simulate critical distributed generation scenarios relevant to New Zealand, such as diverse metering arrangements, time dependent electricity prices, peak shaving by load control, peak lopping by dispatchable distributed generation and state subsides, which are not addressed in commercial software. Data required to run the model was collected from a small rural North Island sheep and beef farming community situated at the end of a 26km long radial distribution feeder. Additional operational data were also collected from the community on distributed resources such as solar hot water systems. A number of optimum distributed generation combinations involving a range of technologies under different metering arrangements and price signals were identified for the small and the medium investor. The effect of influencing factors, such as state initiatives and technological growth, on the investor and the lines companies were discussed. Recommendations for future implementation in order to integrate distributed generation on to rural networks were also given. Several key research areas were identified and discussed including low cost micro hydro, wind resource assessment, diversification of the use of the induction generators, voltage flicker and dynamic distributed generation techno-economic forecasting tools

Modelling of a Gas Cap Gas Lift System

Imperial Users onl

[Report of] Specialist Committee V.4: ocean, wind and wave energy utilization

The committee's mandate was :Concern for structural design of ocean energy utilization devices, such as offshore wind turbines, support structures and fixed or floating wave and tidal energy converters. Attention shall be given to the interaction between the load and the structural response and shall include due consideration of the stochastic nature of the waves, current and wind