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Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2016 —Prognostic activity deals with prediction of the remaining useful life (RUL) of physical systems based on their actual health state and their usage conditions.
Nabil Laayouj, Hicham Jamouli
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A four-cylinder pneumatic expansion motor with high efficiency
Academia Green EnergyA four-cylinder pneumatic motor is proposed and analyzed as an expansion machine to be used in a compressed-air energy storage system. The motor uses a combination of displacement work at constant pressure followed by a sequence of expansion ...
Alfred Rufer
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Control of Three-to-Five-Phase Matrix Converter Using Carrier-Based PWM Algorithm
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2016 - This paper proposes a simple Carrier-Based PWM (CBPWM) technique to control the three- to five-phase Direct Matrix Converter (3×5 DMC). The proposed technique uses the indirect modulation approach to control the 3×5 DMC such as a three-phase ...
Said M Allam +2 more
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Opportunities of energy saving in lighting systems for public buildings
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2017 The lighting system provides many options for cost-effective energy saving with low or no inconvenience. Lighting improvements are excellent investments in most public buildings, it is usually cost-effective to address because lighting improvements are ...
Ayman Abd El-khalek +2 more
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Towards a zero carbon Alexandria
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2017 Today, the world faces an unprecedented environmental crisis. Since the Industrial Revolution, the accelerated climate change is believed to be a result of human activities; that increase the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere – to
Mona Salem, Mary Zekry
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Harmonic Analysis of Radial Distribution Systems Embedded Shunt Capacitors
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2017 Harmonic analysis is an important application for analysis and design of distribution systems. It is used to quantify the distortion in voltage and current waveforms at various buses for a distribution system.
Abdallah Elsherif +2 more
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Artificial Neural Network Based Model of Photovoltaic Cell
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2017 This work concerns the modeling of a photovoltaic system and the prediction of the sensitivity of electrical parameters (current, power) of the six types of photovoltaic cells based on voltage applied between terminals using one of the best known ...
Messaouda Azzouzi +4 more
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Three new DC-to-DC Single-Switch Converters
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2017 This paper presents a new family of three previously unidentified dc-to-dc converters, buck, boost, and buck-boost voltage-transfer-function topologies, which offer advantageous transformer coupling features and low capacitor dc voltage stressing.
Barry W. Williams, Mona Fouad Moussa
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Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2017 Nanocrystalline spinel copper ferrite CuFe2O4 thin film has been studied and synthesized via the electrodeposition-anodization process. Electrodeposited CuFe2 alloys were obtained from aqueous sulphate bath.
E M Elsayed +4 more
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Synthesis, Characterization and Performance of Cu2SnSe3 for Solar Cell Application
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2017 - Cu2SnSe3 (CTSe) powders were prepared by solvothermal (SR) and solid state reactions (SSR) using low cost starting materials. The crystal structure, morphology, UV-Vis absorbance, electrochemical and solar energy properties were investigated using X ...
Mostafa Shawky Eraky +2 more
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