Original scientific paper This paper offers an improved technique namely, Quorum sensing based Bacterial Swarm Optimization (QBSO) technique to solve Practical Dynamic Economic Dispatch (PDED) problem. Quorum sensing is the communication signalling mechanism that permits the bacteria to organize the collective behaviour. The enhanced QBSO method improves the exploration capability of bacterial ...

Entropy is the most used and often abused concept in science, but also in philosophy and society. Further confusions are produced by some attempts to generalize entropy with similar but not the same concepts in other disciplines. The physical meaning of phenomenological, thermodynamic entropy is reasoned and elaborated by generalizing Clausius definition with inclusion of generated heat, since ...

Abstract: Electric vehicles (EV) offer a great potential to address the integration of renewable energy sources (RES) in the power grid, and thus reduce the dependence on oil as well as the greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The high share of wind energy in the Portuguese energy mix expected for 2020 can led to eventual curtailment, especially during the winter when high levels of hydro generati...

This work estimates the energy embedded in wasted food annually in the United States. We calculated the energy intensity of food production from agriculture, transportation, processing, food sales, storage, and preparation for 2007 as 8080 +/- 760 trillion BTU. In 1995 approximately 27% of edible food was wasted. Synthesizing these food loss figures with our estimate of energy consumption for d...

This article proposes the use of generative adversarial networks (GANs) via StyleGAN2 to create high-quality synthetic thermal images and obtain training data build face recognition models using deep learning. We employed different variants StyleGAN2, incorporating new improved version StyleGAN that uses adaptive discriminator augmentation (ADA). In addition, three databases from literature wer...

The optimum design of the heat sink by using differential evolution (DE) method is discussed in the present paper. The DE strategy (DE/ best/ 1/exp) is used here because this strategy is best strategy for heat transfer applications [1]. The main procedures for the heat sink optimization is found the minimum thermal resistance (maximize the heat transfer per unit volume) of the heat sink in orde...