Day: January 16, 2016

Highlights • Proposed model calculates methane production with good precision. • Model mainly uses only last phase – methanogenesis. • Model uses only simple factors – for example content of carbon in the mixture of […]

Highlights • A two-order parameter-varying model of pipe flow in elastic mode is proposed. • The turbine comprehensive parameter eyqh dominantly affects the no-load stability. • The no-load oscillation is analytically decomposed to two types […]

Highlights • CFD modeling and study of the near and far wakes of a VAWT for the first time. • Investigation of the dimensional effects of CFD models on the wake and the loading. • […]

Highlights • Increasing wind and solar penetration in an island with a pumped storage hydro plant. • Modelling a long tail-race tunnel hydro plant in an isolated system. • A lumped parameter reduced order model […]

Highlights • Multi-body techniques of varying complexity are investigated in this paper. • Flexible multi-body dynamic model can better reflect the dynamic behavior. • ANN is proposed for the prediction of wind turbine dynamic behaviors. […]

Highlights • Atmospheric and wave models simulate accurately the weather conditions. • Primary areas of interest for wind are Aegean Sea and west and east of Crete. • For the wave, primary role is having […]

Highlights • Probabilistic framework for reliability assessment of site specific wind turbines. • Uncertainty in wind climate parameters propagated to structural loads directly. • Sensitivity analysis to estimate wind climate parameters influence on reliability. Abstract […]

Highlights • Small wind turbine aerodynamic performance is analysed at a plateau terrain. • The CFD and empirical approaches are employed for the small wind turbine analysis. • Compared to the empirical methods, the CFD […]

Highlights • An optimal hybrid of renewable energy scources is provided. • An optimization method is proposed to determine optimal capacity and operation of sources in microgrids. • GPSO-GM is utilized for minimizing the proposed […]

Highlights • Ionic liquid helped to boost efficiency of CRL from about 35% to 96.2%. • CTK oil was proved suitable for biodiesel preparation with 96.2% conversion yield. • Fuel properties of biodiesel met the […]