Wind Resource Quality Affected by High Levels of Renewables

Wind Resource Quality Affected by High Levels of Renewables

For solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind resources, the capacity factor is an important parameter describing the quality of the resource. As the share of variable renewable resources (such as PV and wind) on the electric system is increasing, so does curtailment (and the fraction of time when it cannot be avoided). At high levels of renewable generation, curtailments effectively change the practica...

Monitoring beef quality attributes as affected by high pressure processing

High pressure processing (HPP) is becoming of increasing importance in the food industry as it offers the opportunity to obtain minimally processed food products with increased safety and extended shelf-life. A sound knowledge of the effects of high pressure on meat attributes is necessary for a successful implementation of HPP in the meat industry. The aim of this work was to determine the eff...

ASCAT wind quality under high subcell wind variability conditions

The assessment and validation of the quality of satellite scatterometer vector winds is challenging under increased subcell wind variability conditions, since reference wind sources such as buoy winds or model output represent very different spatial scales from those resolved by scatterometers (i.e., increased representativeness error). In this paper, moored buoy wind time series are used to as...

Propagation of Sound as Affected by Wind and Temperature Gradients

Wind resource assessment of Khuzestan province in Iran

In this research paper, a 10 minute period measured wind speed data at 10 m, 30 m, and 40 m heights are presented for one of the major provinces of Iran. Four stations in Khuzestan- Abadan, Hosseyneh, Mahshahr, and Shushtar- are analyzed to determine the potential of wind power generation in this province. From the primary evaluation and by determining mean wind speed and also the Weibull f...