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Advanced Computer Technologies in the New Flow Part Development for Reactive Type HPC Steam Turbine of T-100 Series
The paper is devoted to designing the new high-pressure cylinder (HPC) flow part of T-100 series heating turbines based on numerical simulation of...
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Change in Efficiency of Flow Path of Modernized and Non-Modernized Turbines Having a Capacity of 300 MW During Operation
The results of changes in the thermal efficiency of high-pressure cylinders (HPC) of active and reactive types, as well as intermediate-pressure...
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Emerging Ruthenium-Based Electrocatalysts Towards Green Hydrogen: Current States, Challenges, and Opportunities
Since centuries, human development in industry has been regularly correlated with fossil fuel combustion and the release of greenhouse gases. As the...
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Critical Review of Photocatalytic Reactor Designs for Environmental Applications
Photocatalytic processes are a viable alternative to reduce fossil fuel use and global warming. The photocatalytic approach has the potential to...
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Modernization of Steam Turbines during Technical Re-Equipment of Power Plants
The article presents the main directions of technical re-equipment of thermal power plants (according to the DPM-2 program), based on the...
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Investigating solids present in the aqueous stream during STEX condensate upgrading—a case study
Steam explosion (STEX) of woody biomass is an efficient pretreatment method in the production of water-resistant wood pellets. The STEX process also...
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Increased Thermal Stability and Reduced Flammability of Polyurethane Foams with an Application of Polyetherols
In this chapter, the methods of synthesis of polyetherols with incorporated azacyclic rings are described. The polyetherols obtained by...
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Improvements to Operational and Environmental Performance of Power Boiler Plants and Coal Thermal Power Plants
The current state of coal generating capacities in the world and Russia is analysed. Approaches for improving environmental performance and technical...
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AMI and DR, the Enabling Technologies for Information Processing in the Smart Grid
In addition to the conventional transmission and distribution automation and automatic meter reading, the secondary systems of measurement and...
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Recent progress in Prussian blue electrode for electrochromic devices
Great progress has been made in the electrochromic (EC) technology with potential applications in various fields. As one of the most promising EC...
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Dynamic line rating considering short term reliability and convergence time
Dynamic line ratings (DLR) can improve the ampacity of overhead transmission lines by short term overload. This paper conducts ACOPF incorporating...
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Large-Scale Electromagnetic Transient Simulation of DC Grids
The chapter introduces parallel processing approaches for efficient simulation of various modular multilevel converter (MMC)-based systems with...
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Study and Analysis of Underwater Wireless Power Transfer
A detailed study of the UWPT system is presented in this chapter. Since the properties of the coils also contribute to the overall efficiency of the...
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High-capacity methane storage in flexible alkane-linked porous aromatic network polymers
Adsorbed natural gas (ANG) technology is a viable alternative to conventional liquefied or compressed natural-gas storage. Many different porous...
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The Built Environment
The chapter starts defining the built environment and its main features, following the international standards and codes. The trends in the...
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Framework Architecture
The objective of the presented framework is to provide a tool which can be employed to systematically investigate a variety of different scenarios...
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Simulation Methods for Rarefied Gas Flows
Low-speed gas flows of large Knudsen (Kn) number are characteristic of micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), vacuum system and...
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Exergetic and Environmental Analysis of 100 MW Intercooled Gas Turbine Engine
This chapter presents energy, exergy, and environmental analysis of 100 MW intercooled gas turbine engine inspired from LMS 100 GE, a...
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Advanced Metering Infrastructure and Graphics Processing Unit Technologies in Electric Distribution Networks
The advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has been recognized as a key communication mechanism in the modern distribution grid. As a result,...
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Polysaccharides in Batteries
As already briefly indicated in the first sections of this book, polysaccharides and here particularly cellulose, have been used from the very...