Latest News
News-080617.1: Department of Energy, USA has
awarded a fund of $7.5 million ($3.75 million each) to Columbia Power
Technologies, Inc. and Vedant Power, Inc. to develop full-scale devices which
can reduce the capital costs,
operational costs and in turn increase device availability of Wave Energy Converters.
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News-080617.2:After an 18-month competition, the Wave Energy Prize,awarded based on “catalyzing
the development of game-changing wave energy converters that will ultimately
reduce the cost of wave energy” was given to Aqua Harmonics.
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News-080617.3:The technology developer Whooshh Innovations is working with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) and others on an inventive project to create “a new
fish-friendly transport system.” The new technology utilizes flexible tubes and
slight differences in pressure to initiate the salmon and other fish population to move
around obstacles such as the dams in the waterways.
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News-080617.4:Chief Scientist Dr R. K. Kotnala
and his research partner Dr Jyoti Shah of NPL have developed a new way of making
electricity from water at “room temperature without using any power or
chemicals”.
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News-080617.5:“Demand for all three is increasing, driven by a rising global
population, rapid urbanization, changing diets and economic growth. Agriculture
is the largest consumer of the world’s freshwater resources, and more than one-quarter
of the energy used globally is expended on food production and supply”.
The article highlights the
importance of forging a nexus and managing both the resources in a tangible
manner optimizing the utilization of the resource availability.
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News-080617.6:“Morocco is among the most
water-stressed countries in the world, and climate change, combined with
social, economic and political factors, is creating an ever-more dire situation”. Application of “sustainable and affordable
renewable energy” in seawater desalination(which currently relies on massive
amounts of fossil fuels which could weaken the region’s climate mitigation
efforts and, potentially compromise the energy security.)
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New Ideas
07062017 : Idea 1: Development of indicator based real time pen-stock condition
monitoring system by the application of Geographical Information Systems(GIS) and Cognitive tools
The GIS based condition
monitoring systems can be developed to monitor the vital parameters of pen-stock
networks which is used to carry water from the source to the power house for
generation of energy. The plant efficiency is often compromised due to the
reduction of conveyance efficiency of the pen-stock network. The reason for this
decrease can be attributed to the diminution in the depth to width ration or
increase in roughness coefficient due to sedimentation or increase in infiltration due to erosion of the channel bed ...More
07062017 : Idea 2: Development of a Spatial Predictive Model for Estimation of Flow Rate in Pen-stock Networks
A neural network model can be developed to predict flow rate at different points of the pen-stock network in a hydro-power plant. The value of the parameters in the earlier junction can be used to predict the value of the same parameters in the present junction. A digitized map of the pen-stock network can be developed where each junction and pen-stock length between the junctions are digitized and the data of the vital parameters are stored in the attribute table linked to the shape files. The collected data stored and continuously updated in the attribute table can be used to train a model by the neural network methodology for prediction. Such models can be used to know the status of the pen-stocks at different points...More
Short Tutorial
07062017 : How to digitize pen-stocks leading to powerhouse of a hydro-power plant from the site maps?
Benefits: The condition, load or flow rate etc. in a pen-stock can be monitored real time if the digitized shape files and its attribute tables can be connected to a set of sensors which can measure and send the status of the vital parameters, important for condition monitoring of the pen-stocks in large scale hydro-power plants. The portability of the monitoring system is another reason for installation of such real-time monitoring systems. A GIS map can be used in any type of device if the map-codes are generated in platform independent languages like Java etc. Most of the tools used for GIS nowadays offer such features in their digitization module. From the digitized maps,the power plant will be enable to identify vulnerable points and erroneous portions which can be rectified by adopting to required mitigation measures....Read the full tutorial on
Journal/Conference
Journal 080617.1: Special Issue Call on Soft
Computation Techniques and Nature Based Algorithms in Water and Energy Based
Systems
Aims and scope:
“Owing to the advancement in soft
computation techniques, the introduction of nature mimicking algorithms in the
1980s have enhanced the reliability and uniqueness of the solutions for
mitigation of the associated uncertainties encountered by water and energy
based systems. However, a common platform for publication of related research
...More
Journal 080617.2: International Journal
of Renewable Energy Research (IJRER) is indexed by Thomson Reuters, Emerging
Sources Citation Index on Web of Science on 29/10/2015.
About the Journal as taken from
their home page:
“The International
Journal of Renewable Energy Research (IJRER) seeks to promote and
disseminate knowledge of the various topics and technologies of renewable
(green) energy resources. The journal aims to present to the international
community important results of work in the fields of renewable energy research,
development,..More
Bookmarks
080617.1.Name of the Website: Buoy Weather
Link:http://www.buoyweather.com/
Why
you should visit? Data for wave height,
wind speed, ocean current etc. Historical and daily data along with
seven-day forecast is available..More
080617.2.Name of the Website: International Hydropower Association(IHA)
Link: https://www.hydropower.org/maps
Why you should visit? “data for
over 8,000 individual hydropower stations of above 1 MW capacity, representing
89 per cent of global capacity, as well as company and national data.” (from
‘Maps’ home page).IHA is an association for people working in the field of
hydro-power...More
Software/Calculator
080617.1.Integrated Method for Power
Analysis (IMP 5.0)
A online web based software for
evaluating small-scale hydroelectric power sites. IMP utilizes relevant
meteorological and topographical data to evaluate all aspects of an un-gauged
hydro site.It have three integrated module : Flood Frequency Analysis Model for generation
of the flood frequency curve from the topographic information specific to the
site; Watershed Model to generate a continuous hourly or daily time series of
stream-flow based on daily precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature and a
description of the basin and A Hydroelectric Power Simulation Model to
determine the daily energy...More
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