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Hydropower Plants
The turbines used in hydropower plant can be classified into high, medium and low head turbines. The specific speed and head requirement of turbines...
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Results and Discussion
In total 38 models were developed to predict the indicator which represents the climatic vulnerability on performance efficiency of hydropower...
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Introduction
The present study is an attempt to assess the vulnerability of watersheds in face of climate change and change in urbanization with the help of...
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Climate Change and Its Impacts
There are two types of causes which can induce change in the climate of a region, namely, natural and human induced causes. The change in climate due...
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Conclusion
The study was concluded with the observations that the method dependency of the model may be reduced to produce uniform results. As a future research...
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Introduction
The quality and quantity of water gets effected due to the change in the climatic pattern. The performance efficiency of turbines attached to...
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Conclusion
In the conclusion of the study it was found that the methodology depicted in the present investigation for site selection for solar power plants is...
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Introduction
The present investigation is an attempt to provide a tool to represent impact of climate change on hydropower plants. The effect of climatic...
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Climate Change and Its Impacts
The increase in Green House Gases has disturbed the natural patterns of climate in many places of the world. The frequency of extreme events has...
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Results and Discussions
The results from the MCDM delineated the importance of insolation parameter in site selection methodologies. The GMDH model trained with GMDH...
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Feasibility Model of Solar Energy Plants by ANN and MCDM Techniques
This Brief highlights a novel model to find out the feasibility of any location to produce solar energy. The model utilizes the latest multi-criteria...
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Biodiesel Production by Hydroesterification: Simulation Studies
Due to environmental and economic issues, alternative fuels have been developed as a way to achieve sustainability. Biodiesel is a biofuel substitute...
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Biodiesel and Bioethanol from Microalgae
Microalgae are a group of unicellular or multicellular photosynthetic microorganisms that have the ability to use sources of organic and inorganic...
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Patents on Biofuels
Global energy matrix is mainly based on fossil fuels. As the amount of non-renewable fuels diminishes, a need for alternative sources of fuels and...
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Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool to evaluate economic efficiency and environmental impacts of a product or processes. One of its most...
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Feedstocks for Biofuels
Considering the great interest of the countries around the world and the great number of research of many groups from Institutes, Universities,...
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Second Generation Bioethanol
Second generation bioethanol, i.e., ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass is envisaged as a renewable source of transport fuel in the next years to...
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Fungal Enzymatic Degradation of Cellulose
In nature, filamentous fungi are potent degraders of cellulose as they are able to produce a high number and broad variety of cellulases with...
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History and Global Policy of Biofuels
The increasing cost of crude oil, concerns about energy security, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and the realization that energy is an essential...
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Bioethanol from Soybean Molasses
Bioethanol is an important biofuel produced by the fermentation of sugars that, together with biodiesel, biobutanol, biomethane, and biohydrogen,...