15 articles in this issue
Angel Alejandro Juan, Carlos Alberto Mendez, Javier Faulin, Jesica de Armas and Scott Erwin Grasman
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Behnam Moghadassian, Aaron Rosenberg and Anupam Sharma
The objective of this paper is to numerically investigate the effects of the atmospheric boundary layer on the aerodynamic performance and loads of a novel dual-rotor wind turbine (DRWT). Large eddy simulations are carried out with the turbines operating ... see more
Senad Apelfröjd, Sandra Eriksson and Hans Bernhoff
This paper presents a review of over a decade of research on Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) conducted at Uppsala University. The paper presents, among others, an overview of the 200 kW VAWT located in Falkenberg, Sweden, as well as a description of t... see more
Augustine Ikpehai, Bamidele Adebisi and Khaled M. Rabie
Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) subsystems monitor and control energy distribution through exchange of information between smart meters and utility networks. A key challenge is how to select a cost-effective communication system without compromisin... see more
Xin Liu, Zhenyu Na, Min Jia, Xuemai Gu and Xiaotong Li
In cognitive radio (CR), the spectrum sensing of the primary user (PU) may consume some electrical power from the battery capacity of the secondary user (SU), resulting in a decrease in the transmission power of the SU. In this paper, a multislot simultan... see more
Ranka Stankovic, Nikola Vulovic, Nikola Lilic, Ivan Obradovic, Radule Tošovic and Milica Pešic-Georgiadis
This paper presents the development of a WebGIS application aimed at providing safe and reliable data needed for reclamation of abandoned mines in national parks and other protected areas in Vojvodina in compliance with existing legal regulations. The geo... see more
Athanasios Kolios, Varvara Mytilinou, Estivaliz Lozano-Minguez and Konstantinos Salonitis
This paper presents an application and extension of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods to account for stochastic input variables. More in particular, a comparative study is carried out among well-known and widely-applied methods in MCDM, whe... see more
Misael Lopez-Ramirez, Luis Ledesma-Carrillo, Eduardo Cabal-Yepez, Carlos Rodriguez-Donate, Homero Miranda-Vidales and Arturo Garcia-Perez
In electric power systems, there are always power quality disturbances (PQDs). Usually, noise contamination interferes with their detection and classification. Common methods perform frequency or time-frequency analyses on the power distribution signal fo... see more
Anil Kumar and Man-Hoe Kim
This article presents heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics in a solar air heater (SAH) channel with multi V-type perforated baffles. The flow passage has an aspect ratio of 10. The relative baffle height, relative pitch, relative baffle hole posit... see more
Muhammed Alhanouti, Martin Gießler, Thomas Blank and Frank Gauterin
Since the evolution of the electric and hybrid vehicle, the analysis of batteries’ characteristics and influence on driving range has become essential. This fact advocates the necessity of accurate simulation modeling for batteries. Different models for t... see more
Rodrigo Verschae, Takekazu Kato and Takashi Matsuyama
The introduction of uncontrollable renewable energy is having a positive impact on our health, the climate, and the economy, but it is also pushing the limits of the power system. The main reason for this is that, in any power system, the generation and c... see more
Zhiwei He, Mingyu Gao, Guojin Ma, Yuanyuan Liu and Lijun Tang
Battery grouping is a technology widely used to improve the performance of battery packs. In this paper, we propose a time series clustering based battery grouping method. The proposed method utilizes the whole battery charge/discharge sequence for batter... see more
Jun Yang, Wanmeng Hao, Lei Chen, Jiejun Chen, Jing Jin and Feng Wang
Electric vehicles (EVs) have received wide attention due to their higher energy efficiency and lower emissions. However, the random charging and discharging behaviors of substantial numbers of EVs may lead to safety risk problems in a distribution network... see more
Michele Mutchek, Gregory Cooney, Gavin Pickenpaugh, Joe Marriott and Timothy Skone
The construction of two marine bulk terminals in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States are currently under review and would open up additional thermal coal exports to Asia on the order of almost 100 million additional tonnes per year. The majo... see more
Mu-Gu Jeong, Seung-Il Moon and Pyeong-Ik Hwang
Indirect load control (ILC) is a method by which the customer determines load reduction of electricity by using a price signal. One of the ILCs is a time-of-use (TOU) tariff, which is the most commonly used time-varying retail pricing. Under the TOU tarif... see more