Future smart grids will require a flexible, observable, and controllable network architecture for reliable and efficient energy delivery under uncertain conditions. They will also necessitate variability in distributed energy generators and demand-side loads. This study presents a tree-like user-mode network architecture responding to these requirements. The approaches presented for the next-ge...

Abstract This study presents the development, analysis and assessment of residential lighting load profile using computational intelligence based modelling Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and Neural network (NN) models for prediction (forecasting) and evaluation of lighting load and initiatives. Factors considered in the development of the models include natural lighting, occupanc...

Load balancing in electricity grids becomes a more sophisticated problem by the increased availability of timevarying stochastic availability of electricity from renewable resources. Demand side management by load shifting is one attempt to cope with this problem. In this paper we discus and compare two control strategies to use the thermal storage of electrical household appliances as balancin...

This paper presents a load management concept for distributed object-oriented environments. The focus is on system level load management, i.e. the integration of load management into the runtime system or the middleware. This paper discusses the special requirements of load management for distributed object-oriented environments. Based on the requirements, the components of a load management se...

A significant nutrient load can be generated internally by publicly owned treatment works (POTWs). These nutrients can be found in the reject water, also known as side streams, of many municipal wastewater and sewage sludge treatment processes. These side streams include the reject stream from membranes, supernatant liquid from sludge digesters, and the centrate/filtrate return stream from sewa...

a project was established to develop a procedure for the selection, design, installation, test and evaluation of mass-flow rate measurement systems for root crop harvesting and to assess the consistency and precision of the weighing systems incorporated into crop feed arrangements in both laboratory and field studies. studies were conducted to evaluate conveyor belt weighing systems using an ex...