Distributed renewable energy resources have attracted significant attention in recent years due to the falling cost of the renewable energy technology, extensive federal and state incentives, and the application in improving load-point reliability. This growing proliferation, ho…
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The increasing amount of food waste (FW) is one of the most challenging problems around the world. The remarkable amount of FW produced is driven by various factors such as population growth, modernization, safety policy, culture, lifestyle, and human behavior. FW commonly will …
One of the pressing challenges to economic development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is access to electrical power. The region is endowed with natural resources that can meet this challenge. Yet, 620 million people in SSA lack access to electricity from a central grid, most of the…
Esta dissertação centra-se no estudo de Viabilidade das Energias Renováveis em Angola; deste modo, primeiro, é apresentada uma visão geral sobre o histórico mundial na área das energias renováveis, aborda-se a independência energética de Angola, a descarbonização do setor produt…
This dissertation develops a systematic approach to comprehensively investigate the application potential of Solar PV, wind and fuel cells in reducing GHGs emissions for energy intensive global manufacturing industry. This systematic approach is developed by integrating the tech…
In this thesis, in order to investigate the impact of charging load from plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), a stochastic model is developed in Matlab. In this model, two main types of PHEVs are defined: public transportation vehicles and private vehicles. Different chargi…
On November 7, 1973, President Nixon asked Americans to lower their home thermostats to a national average temperature of 68 degrees. On February 2, 1974, over half of the gas stations in the New York City area closed after selling out of fuel. These and other restrictions resul…
In recent times, there has been an increased interest in wind energy due to concerns about the pollution caused by burning fossil fuels and their rising prices. Most wind turbines in use today are conventional wind mills with three airfoil shaped blades arraigned around a horizo…
This dissertation outlines a systematic approach for developing cost-effective flexible organic and dye-sensitized solar cells. Cost effective solar cells are found at the intersection of high efficiency, low module and installation cost, and long device lifetime. Low module and…
At present the main source of our power and energy needs are from fossil fuel; almost all transportation tools and nearly 70% of electrical power are produced by fossil fuel. But unfortunately these materials are limited in our planet, with obvious drawback such as pollution. So…
The utilization of wind energy will pose great socioeconomic benefits with reductions in power plant emissions and the supply of zero cost energy; however, large-scale wind energy integration could introduce inevitable challenges to regional transmission systems and hourly syste…
This master's project focuses on a LCA assessment of alternative fuels in disperse geographical locations for electricity generation through a gas turbine in 2020. Indeed, by then, the industrial partner's gas turbine technology should have the ability to burn these different fu…
Non-traditional uses of biomass to produce energy is becoming increasingly more important since other sources and supplies of energy are becoming less available, difficult to get, and provide fewer environmental, social, and economical benefits. Recently, small and mobile biomas…
Grid parity for alternative energy resources occurs when the cost of electricity generated from the source is lower than or equal to the purchasing price of power from the electricity grid. This thesis aims to quantitatively analyze the evolution of hybrid stand-alone microgrids…
This thesis mainly focuses on a novel design of a standalone PV-Wind hybrid energy system for remote locations where grid extension is not feasible or is expensive. The Hybrid PV-Wind standalone energy system shows higher reliability compared to Wind or PV standalone systems as …
Renewable energy has been playing an important role to meet power demand and 'Green Energy' market is getting bigger platform all over the world in the last few years. Due to massive increase in the prices of fossil fuels along with global warming issues, energy harvesting from …
Many arid and semi-arid countries such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia face shortages of potable water available from natural sources. The limited water resources and the need to balance economic and social development resulted in the emergence of an imbalance between them. Seawa…
In order to meet the communication delay requirements of various message types while developing applications for the Smart Grid (SG), selection of appropriate communication technology is crucial and requires network segment-wise delay characterization under different network con…
The purpose of the thesis is to analyze dynamic and transient characteristics of wind energy conversion systems including the stability issues in real time environment using the Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS). There are different power system simulation tools available in th…
The main objective of this thesis is to investigate the feasibility of integrating concentrated solar power (CSP) technology with the conventional combined cycle technology for electric generation in Saudi Arabia. The generated electricity can be used locally to meet the annual …