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Physical Potential and Economic Reality: the Underdevelopment of the Port of Freetown
The considerable physical advantages that Freetown possesses as a port site have long been recognised, as the accounts by numerous early seafarers bear witness:
This noble river is at least two lea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Telephonic Control & Monitoring of Energy Consumption in School Buildings in Essex
The object of this demonstration project was to assess the practicability and cost-effectiveness of remote control and energy monitoring of 20 schools based in or near Chelmsford in Essex, U.K. The work involv...
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Chapter
Leukaemia and Nuclear Establishments
It is fifteen years since a television programme in the UK, called Windscale, the Nuclear Laundry, introduced the possibility that certain nuclear installations, notably BNFL’s Sellafield nuclear reprocessing sit...
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Chapter
Dynamic Congestion Management
Chapter 7 analyses the dynamic security issue in the restructuring power market. A general framework is proposed to manage this issue in combination with the market mechanism and the power system intrinsic cha...
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Article
Investigation on the integral output power model of a large-scale wind farm
The integral output power model of a large-scale wind farm is needed when estimating the wind farm’s output over a period of time in the future. The actual wind speed power model and calculation method of a wi...
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Control of homogeneous charge compression ignition combustion in a two-cylinder gasoline direct injection engine with negative valve overlap
Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) has challenges in ignition timing control, combustion rate control, and operating range extension. In this paper, HCCI combustion was studied in a two-cylinder ga...
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Article
Liquid metal cooling in thermal management of computer chips
With the rapid improvement of computer performance, tremendous heat generation in the chip becomes a major serious concern for thermal management. Meanwhile, CPU chips are becoming smaller and smaller with alm...
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Article
Lightening structure optimization on turbine wheel of vehicular turbocharger
Based on basic principle of optimization design, structure optimization of turbine is conducted using optimization module of ANSYS and APDL in order to get the minimum turbine weight. Meanwhile, the original b...
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Article
Noise reduction for centrifugal fan with non-isometric forward-swept blade impeller
To reduce the noise of the T9-19No.4A centrifugal fan, whose impeller has equidistant forward-swept blades, two new impellers with different blade spacing were designed and an experimental study was conducted....
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Measurement and analysis of tip clearance unsteady flow spectrum in axial-flow fan rotor
The dynamic pressure measurement device and test technology are described in this study. The tip clearance unsteady flow development from the inlet to the outlet of an axial-flow rotor was revealed by analyzin...
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Chaotic behavior of LNG after stratification in main stream region of storage tank
A study of the chaotic behavior of liquefied natural gas (LNG) after stratification in the main stream region of a storage tank was conducted. Based on nonlinear dynamics, a 2-dimensional Rayleigh-Benard conve...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Parameter Optimization and Analysis of a Multi-Stage Tower Type of Solar Desalination Unit
After the analysis of the multi-stage tower type of solar desalination unit[1], the unit is optimized and theoretically studied. Through combing the optimized unit with a solar heating system and the simulatio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Catalytic Reforming of Biomass Raw Fuel Gas to Syngas for FT Liquid Fuels Production
The gasification of biomass to obtain a syngas provides a competitive means for clean FT (Fischer-Tropsch) liquid fuels from renewable resources. The feasibility of the process depends on the upgrading of raw ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on the Gasification Characteristics of the Industrial Residues of Kenaf
As an useful biomass resource, the industrial residues of kenaf were tested on its gasification characteristics in an existing bubbling fluidized bed gasifier system. The gasification resoults showed that the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Study and Investigation about Operating and Applying of Installed PV Village Power System
The paper presents the evaluation result about the system operation, operator, consumer and System load of installed PV village power systems based on the study and analyses of the site investigated informatio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Interface Recombination Current of the CDS/CDTE Heterojunction Solar Cell
The recombination current and its relation with voltage and density of interface states of the CdS/CdTe solar cell are discussed. Interface state is the result of lattice mismatch of the two materials used. He...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Study on Energy Gain on Evacuated Collector Tube with Cylindric Absorber on Building Southern Facade
According to the Clear-Day Model, daily energy gain and its annual variation of single evacuated collector tube with cylindric absorber in three different installation on building southern facade are studied. ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Renewable Energy Markets and Policies in China
The renewable energy market is booming in recent years especially with the effective of the Renewable Energy Law. With the expanding market as one of the driven force, the renewable energy technologies are bei...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Experimental Study on the Solar-Wall-Air-Collector and Solar House
A solar-wall-air-collector used for heating buildings is introduced. In the paper, using natural flow and forced flow transfer for collector are all investigated. In the experiments, the collector’s heat effic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Comparative Study on the 1MW and 5.5MW Biomass Gasification and Power Generation System
Small to middle-scale Biomass Gasification & Power Generation (BGPG) technology has sufficient flexibility and strong adaptability in line with loading conditions, and can be operated easily. It is suitable fo...
